Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Tensions built up between China and Hong Kong as the percentage of the city's residents identifying themselves as Chinese dropped to the lowest level since 1997. And the bottom dropped out of the Indian outsourcing industry, which contracted as much as 80% while the Indian firm Aegis outsourced its call center — to Dallas.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing GDP Bottom-up Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall. Men at the top are more likely to pull other men up by their collars into the C-suite to join them.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

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Leadership 63

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

With yesterday''s iPhone release, Apple changed things up by going to a " good-better-best " pricing strategy on its new devices. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone.

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

With yesterday’s iPhone release, Apple changed things up by going to a “ good-better-best ” pricing strategy on its new devices. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone.

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. Ask for the CFO’s help.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8