Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013.

Restructuring 11

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

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

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. Those who make the decisions and control the purse strings at legacy higher education institutions. Most of the attendees from post-secondary institutions were professors or deans of schools of education. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S. In two short years, Kwid gained 15% of the market.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 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 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. Operations in a Connected World. Gartner predicts that there will be more than 6.4 Internal diversity. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Business education Creativity Design' It is not impossible. It is just hard.

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent. HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W. Innovations at the top extend even to how the board itself operates, and Blackstone Group — one of the leading investment groups in the world — has been pressing the case. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. When Innovation Is Strategy. An HBR Insight Center.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

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. social entrepreneurs now have more options.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

On one hand, there are wars, terror, market crashes, bailouts, budget crises, cliffs, and sequesters. This is part of the reason that the stock market, which used to move a fraction of a percent each day, now shifts in record swings with increasing volume. The actual response: nothing.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Not in health care, which is not structured for true market competition. In many markets, there is only one main provider, at the most two, and they shadow-price each other, meaning they make sure prices charged to insurance companies are similar. Encourage Competition. In most industries, more competition lowers cost.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To determine the best approach to using ICT for development (or ICT4D, as it’s sometimes called), Huawei recently interviewed 150 telecom operators, government bodies, regulators, NGOs, and social enterprises in 11 countries. This approach consigns many ICT4D projects and tech startups alike to failure.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. Many of the more venial sins are the result of a widespread lack of understanding and education about Wikipedia’s standards about conflicts of interest.

PR 8

PR Public Relations Conflict of Interest Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Here, the shareholder value philosophy, which determines so much of how our corporations operate these days, is the perfect example. The fact that, following the creation of the Cap-and-Trade Carbon Emission Scheme as a clever new artificial market, more coal is being burned in Europe than before is a mind-boggling example.)

Management 9

Management Short-term System Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. billion in 2013. to assist with the local go-to-market approach.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. ” Education. In Britain, education levels were apparently the strongest predictor of voting patterns in the Brexit referendum — even though age and income levels tended to get more play in the press.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

That’s the finding from a new paper ( Levi, Li, and Zhang, 2013 ) by Maurice Levi and Kai Li of the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and Feng Zhang at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. You’re buying an unknown entity, possibly also entering a new market.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty CEO Sample Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

But no, everybody knew then who the real boss was, as they know today that the boss at Mocidade is Solange Cruz Bichara Rezende , the 43-year-old president, seen weeping in this video clip after learning that her samba school had won the 2013 parade. What can large corporations operating in Brazil learn from all this?

Teamwork 9

Teamwork Absenteeism Class Motivation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

As I reported in an earlier piece for HBR.org : A software CEO I spoke with recently said he avoids job candidates with advanced software engineering degrees because they represent an overinvestment in education that brings with it both higher salary demands and hubris.

Software 8

Software Engineering Incentives CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Many had been educated in English-speaking institutions. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. What do you do? Hire interpreters? My company, Rakuten, Inc.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Activities include media-spokesperson training, field and operations staff training, coordination of corporate response and message points, community liaison, collateral materials writing-production, video archiving-production, media relations, monitoring and expert testimony.

Crisis Management 77

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The next phase in restoring public credibility to Tylenol was the reintroduction of new product to the shelves, done in such a way as to restore consumer confidence and increase market share. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

Crisis 71

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. also needs education and skills training recognized through certification. Various educational institutions have capabilities to match training with the competitive skills needed by businesses and communities. is not on “offense”—pushing to open markets—the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8