Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? The business media have had no shortage of these. While there is certainly merit in questioning your business model, revolutionary business model transformation remains elusive despite the buzz.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

According to the October 2013 Harvard Business Review, the major obstacles to business model innovation are fear and uncertainty. Eighty percent of corporate executives rank business model innovation ahead of the development of new products and services in terms of importance.

Resistance 50

Resistance Business Model Learning-by-Doing Quality 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. However, the ultimate test for a business model comes not from being the disruptor but from how resilient it is to disruption itself.

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

Some commentators felt the move to New Coke was a marketing gimmick to regenerate interest and sales in the brand after sales erosion due to the “Pepsi Challenge” taste test campaign. Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

Brand 59

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Here’s the list. See what you think: 1. Leaning in will only get us so far. 3-D Printing Will Change the World.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They are transforming each and every business model. At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Recognizing this fundamental difference, Universal changed its marketing from promoting what it wanted consumers to experience to a testimonial to what the experience was already providing. No longer focusing on their marketing platform – “ride the movies”– they built a new strategy – “Experience an extraordinary escape at Universal.”

Press Release 50

Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) Unfortunately, many of us have developed expertise in only one field (software engineering, information technology [IT], marketing, biotechnology, automobile manufacturing, the food industry, etc.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad. The “jobs-to-be-done” theory articulates the gap between how producers view and market a product and how customers actually use it.

Marketing 8

Marketing B2B Levitt Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. But they also risk alienating the longstanding partners that companies count on for their core business. market for personal computers. The auto industry is a case in point. Minimize Pain.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

On the face of it, that seems to be two entirely different markets, with Facebook at Work playing in the workplace productivity market (competing with the likes of Microsoft Office, Webex , and project management software) while LinkedIn is part of the headhunting industry. Making Money with Digital Business Models.

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Human Resources Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One of the most enticing global entrepreneurial opportunities these days is taking a digital business model that works in the U.S. Several students in my Leading Global Ventures class at Harvard Business School have done just that over the past few years, and many more would like to follow suit. Growing Digital Business.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs would pay VCs well, through carry, when they do what they say they will: generate great returns in excess of the public markets.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In August 2013, Icahn bought more than $1 billion worth of Apple shares. As I explain in my recent Harvard Business Review article, “Profits Without Prosperity,” open-market repurchases that represent the vast majority of buybacks in the United States reward value extraction and undermine value creation.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Many sharing economy business models do raise legitimate concerns about user safety, privacy and access. taxis) face.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Most of the features will be incorporated into Outlook 2013 and Outlook Web for Office 365, with more partnerships likely to come. Outlook may be able to reinvent its business model as well. Outlook’s market share still lags behind the default mobile email clients on iPhone, iPad, and Android. Grow mobile.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Advertising Business Model Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

If marketers want to produce content, they need to think like publishers. After all, content isn’t an extension of marketing, it’s an extension of publishing. How can I hold up a struggling industry as a model? If publishing is a viable model, why aren’t publishers making money? Aren’t publishers failing?” Aren’t they?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Despite heavy promotions and endorsements from celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres and Eminem, Beats Music has performed poorly against rival music services such as Spotify which got into the music streaming market earlier, has an ad-supported free tier, and is growing rapidly. YouTube still gives out music for free (with advertising).

Licensing 8

Licensing Download Advertising Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The business models of universities are being challenged, and it looks like the universities are out to lunch.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. However, the best incubators also look for large, venture fundable business opportunities. Certainly not VCs.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 ZB by 2020.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The performance benefits for companies are compelling and not just (or even mainly) in terms of reducing labor costs: automation can also bring whole new business models, and improvements that go beyond human capabilities, such as increasing throughput and quality and raising the speed of responses in a variety of industries.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Journal writer Dennis Berman begins by citing Kellogg CEO John Bryant, the respected head of a well-run company, who was describing one of its “innovations” for 2013. One business-school professor actually wrote a book called, Everything I Know about Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead.). The Gone Nutty!

Innovation 12

Innovation Kaplan Insurance Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. This becomes particularly important in the context of cyber-crime and the alarming rise of business models being held for ransom or political gain.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

” Think of it as mass e-commerce for the black market (here’s a good primer ). The first DMN to hit mainstream awareness was Silk Road, the black market for illegal drugs that was shut down by the FBI as part of a multiagency effort in 2013. And it isn’t a problem just for consumers.

Software 8

Software Engineering Technology Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Under the hood, the business model is fundamentally not very different from that of a traditional rental car company. Their business model advantages are clear — the "fleet" renews itself naturally, there are no parking or logistics issues, geographic expansion and scaling is more seamless.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Ground innovations in the business model. "Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field.

Innovation 8

Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. trillion euros.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 We believe this segment could generate meaningful revenue in the near term. Samsung expects the bulk of this opportunity to be driven by the U.S., Australia and China.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

David Carr, at The New York Times , summarized the industry’s precarious position as follows: “Producing serious news is an expensive enterprise with a beleaguered business model, one that remains tied to the tracks as a locomotive of splintered audiences and declining advertising hurtles toward it.” ( The New York Times ; October 20, 2013).

Price 10

Price Content Reputation Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Census data from 1990 to 2013. They also control for numerous relevant factors, from gender and ethnicity, to part-time vs. full-time, to the strength of the labor market in each year. For middle-skilled, middle class workers at middle-paying firms, the chances of moving up the following year were 2.6%. skills, experience, etc.)

Class 9

Class Video Bottom-up Skills 9