HR Digest

AUGUST 24, 2023

The country’s aging population, coupled with a decline in the working-age population, has created a massive imbalance in the job market. With fewer workers available, businesses are struggling to meet the demands of a growing market. The labor shortage in Japan has far-reaching consequences for the country’s economy.

Crisis 52

Crisis Chemicals Policies Trends 52

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. million people employed as long-haul truck drivers in the U.S.

Osborne 73

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Product development has been a little slow for a while. These days, most of your product developments are minor enhancements that don’t yield better margins. Make innovation the number one goal in the company (read: big incentives for achieving innovation goals). Develop a new model for the sales person of the future.

Price 91

Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 91

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The second time I was in the market to buy. How would you approach the market of sales professionals and sales management? I have several products that I’d like to develop sales channels for, but I’m not sure where to begin effectively. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Gerhard, No.

Real Estate 50

Real Estate CRM Ryan Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. Rather than aiming at all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , for example, companies will likely tailor their sustainability efforts to their commercial priorities. It was an ambitious but concrete plan.

Execution 12

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Yet, unlike money, the market for personal data is relatively embryonic. Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Asset owners and investors thus have clear information about the strong incentive to adapt to this emerging risk. The answer varies by location. cities to adapt.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

This is a problem, because without a reasonable definition (or definitions) of culture, we cannot hope to understand its connections to other key elements of the organization, such as structure and incentive systems. Nor can we develop good approaches to analyzing, preserving and transforming cultures.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The form of capitalism that has emerged in Britain is the textbook description of how to organize capital markets and corporate sectors. What exactly is wrong with the progressively greater control that banks, private equity investors, stock markets, and takeovers have exerted over the British corporate sector? Even in the U.S.,

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Banking Commitment Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue. Many emerging markets in Africa fall into this ‘not-good-enough’ category. Align Culture and Incentives.

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

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. 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.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. If you invest in human capital, whether in your company or in your country, sooner or later it will pay off if you have the right set of incentives.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

In the US, the government shutdown and ongoing political dysfunction roiled financial markets and raised serious new questions about America’s money-saving potential and the long-term outlook for the US economy. But it’s a development that America may not be prepared for.

Proposal 8

Proposal Politics Long-term Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. By the end of 2010, they found that incentive bonuses did have a minor impact on growth but that as soon as they were discontinued, sales dropped again. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Sena, a supervisor in a company that sells credit to the upcoming Brazilian middle class, thinks corporations underplay this element and rely too much on the motivational power of financial incentives. Leaders have a large degree of autonomy and consequently develop the sense of ownership crucial to success.

Teamwork 9

Teamwork Absenteeism Class Motivation 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. This is particularly unfortunate since the incentives of city governments and sharing economy firms are often aligned.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I also know all too well that, like all strategies, superconsumer strategies can be hard to implement, because of internal processes, misaligned incentives, and organizational structures that are difficult to navigate. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So find them, ask questions, and let them help you.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

Today, Shenzhen-based DJI , of which one of us is a board member, holds a global market share of 70% in consumer drones and offers a window into the future of competition from China. billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, DJI’s sales were around $2.7

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. As a result, the U.S. based, with the rest coming from China.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. What’s in the Tax Bill?

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Emerging market diaspora populations have been on the rise, thanks to the continued march of globalization, and today’s diaspora communities are better connected with their homelands than ever before. Emerging markets and their indigenous companies should see this as an opportunity to boost their competitiveness.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Even a simpler product like the SpinBrush, which entered the market priced at $5 each, required an upfront investment of $1.5 As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

The media did exactly what it was designed to do, given the incentives that govern it. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Two developments bear noting. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

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 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

TPP’s high quality rules and new competition will also help economic reformers across the Pacific, from an aging Japan that needs structural changes for its economy to grow, to a rising Vietnam that needs an international legal framework to develop further. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. About 60% of U.S. manufacturing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8