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JULY 10, 2013

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Risk Management 58

Risk Management Operations Resources Management 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Auto Ownership and the Real Middle Class (Vox EU). Middle-class status has now been achieved by more than 4 billion people worldwide. So Shimelse Ali and Uri Dadush suggest a new middle-class definition: those who can afford to buy a car. The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies.

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Auto Ownership and the Real Middle Class (Vox EU). Middle-class status has now been achieved by more than 4 billion people worldwide. So Shimelse Ali and Uri Dadush suggest a new middle-class definition: those who can afford to buy a car. The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. They’re independent businesspeople who are now marketing their sales and personal development services using my intellectual property, both online and in the classroom. On the achievement side of life, my four words are: ADVISOR – DIGITAL – POWER – TIME.

Succession 50

Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

During the summer of 2014 alone $3 billion poured into India’s e-commerce sector, where, in addition to local innovators like Flipkart and Snapdeal, there are nearly 200 digital commerce startups flush with private investment and venture capital funds. Nimble e-commerce players are simply working with and around the persistence of cash.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Moreover, small firms are core to Americas middle class and part of the fabric of Main Streets across our country.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. But the growth — while rapid — has not been broad-based.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

While these two facts are seemingly unrelated, an innovative program connects them in a meaningful way. I joined the inaugural class of the GSTW program at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in February 2013, where I, along with ten fellow veterans, received accelerated skills training in core manufacturing skillsets.

Skills 8

Skills Company Class Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the technically troubled Affordable Care Act exchanges , has done a far better job concealing the details of its systems design, development, and deployment practices than producing working websites. That’s what serious systems developers do. Where was it?

Software 9

Software System Project Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity." Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. Noisebridge photo by Dylan Hendricks, 2013. Creativity Economy Innovation'

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. According to Barron's and others, China has already begun implementing its ambitious plan to increase installations. Chinese consumers will spend $41.5 trillion to $6.2

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Every company requires a way of calibrating its strategy to the growth drivers in its industry, and developing a geographic value map.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." Watch for our January-February 2013 issue, which revisits this study.). Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

We believe that when this incredible professional diversity collides with software engineering talent, you have the recipe for breakthrough innovation. Our intention for Hook & Loop was not to hire the best and brightest software developers. New York is also creating the infrastructure to grow and develop technology talent organically.

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Diversity Software Engineering Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? innovative alternatives.

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. DJI’s first hit product was the Phantom in 2013, and ever since, DJI has introduced new products at a rapid-fire pace.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Companies across the spectrum are grappling with change as new technologies, innovations, and customer behaviors disrupt old business models.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). I knew about Deming, I had read part of Out of the Crisis during my university classes, so I started to think he was exactly what I was looking for. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

On the other hand, you have the media pointing out the country’s shallow middle class, growing inequality and joblessness, and a trail of multinationals frustrated by the lack of China-like success in India. India’s emerging middle class is strong. The country is in a tech startup boom.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

A number of cities, in particular, have become hotbeds of innovation, in no small part because of the fiscal strains they face. which is spurring rank-and-file workers to view themselves as innovators — a tough thing for many corporations to get right. The first is exemplified by South Bend, Ind., Take Louisville, Ky.,

Drucker 8

Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. That’s still widely taught in business-school classes and it’s easy for people to understand. [A As did other people.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age.

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Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent JPMorgan/GIIN report , impact investors invested nearly $11 billion across 4,900 deals in 2013, up 250% from 2011. In the 2013 class of Echoing Green Fellows , five of the 12 nonprofits earn revenue, and five of the seven for-profit companies have received donations. and for-profits can accept donations.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity. That is how any nation gets a rising and prosperous middle class.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies.

Politics 11

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 11