Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

vehicles decreasing from 40% of total in 2000 to 17% in 2013), by destination (e.g., from 80% in 2000 to 50% in 2013), and by exposure to the economic cycle. Accordingly, it has systematically published figures about the evolution of its business portfolio in terms of sales by segment (e.g.,

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years.

Organization 8

Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology. The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. billion from reduced energy and wastewater consumption in manufacturing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. WordPress operates as an open-source ecosystem with a venture-backed corporation, Automattic , at its heart. The company has piles of money — $3.6 And the company’s latest (Oct. 27) earnings report doesn’t really show that kind of acceleration.

Marketing 9

Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In other words, what produces complexity is not so much the presence of many direct cause-effect links which operate with subtlety versus precision, but rather the presence of indirect, non-linear relationships between the variables, parts, and dimensions of the whole. Business education Collaboration Decision making'

Senge 8

Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In 2013, only 8% of the companies in this annual benchmarking survey received a top grade from their customers — and that''s a pathetically low number in comparison to the amount of professed innovation in the industry. Why haven''t we seen more and more companies earning excellent scores in Forrester''s Customer Experience Index ?

Innovation 8

Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

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. Just in the last month, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on Lyft and Uber operations.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

innovation system, we ran an exercise matching Arabic first names with international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02 especially those with R&D operations. and around the world.

Innovation 14

Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”.

IPO 12

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. Going forward, we will localize… We will produce for the U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8