Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s easy to make a case that Apple is now positioning itself to become more of a provider of luxury-level technology. Will Geniuses be replaced with trend-setting fashion consultants? At launch, they cost about 10-12% of median monthly income, far less than desktops (40%) and notebooks (50%) of the same general era.

Mass Marketing 11

Mass Marketing Marketing Brand Meyer 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In 2010, the average American spent 10 hours and 46 minutes a day consuming content; by 2013, that number had risen to 12 hours and 5 minutes. That The Cut , nymag.com’s successful fashion vertical, will be integrated into the revamped magazine. But rather than blaming their bad ads, they blame the technology and ask for a discount.

Magazine 9

Magazine Media Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

These days, for studying anything related to online, 2013 is ancient history. The most plausible defense is that budgets are tight, but surely it is more important to devote resources to measuring in a timely fashion the parts of the economy that are changing rapidly than to keep current on sectors that move glacially.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Perhaps drawing on a national affinity for design, Italcementi has rediscovered cement as the raw material of architectural beauty, transforming a drab, gray powder into a technologically advanced and aesthetically sophisticated building material. The new approach is starting to pay dividends.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. The Launch. What features would make the site inviting, accessible, and useful?

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force. Here four things I think he should focus on as he takes the helm: Signal his commitment to serving at technology’s cutting edge. And that will require old-fashioned, in-person persuasion. So what should we expect from the leader of this “new” Google?

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder." Those businesses were mainly in fashion, fitness and beauty. But most women outgrew the "cookies and crafts" stereotype a long time ago, and have their sights set on bigger goals.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Benchmarking Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Coinciding with this is recent discussion in the business media that since “work” no longer adheres to the traditional 9-5, and technology allows us to be connected anywhere and everywhere, perhaps those longer work hours should be reconciled with more time off. But an unlimited-vacation-days perk misses the point.

Policies 8

Policies Creativity Report Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. While no one can dispute Silicon Valley embodies the quintessential technology culture, there''s another piece of the culture equation that matters just as much for a company like ours: diversity.

Diversity 9

Diversity Software Engineering Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Retail giant Target, for example, estimated its losses from a 2013 data breach at more than $250 million. In fact, the best practice is to have the CISO work with each team to determine ways to reach goals in the most secure fashion, and then executives must hold their people accountable for risks and flaws identified by the CISO.

Review 8

Review Training Execution Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Absent regulatory barriers, Google can so easily extend its search technology to new regions and countries that would-be rivals struggle to find an untapped location. When Groupon acquired Blink Booking in 2013, it saw lots of value in the hotel clients and customers that Blink had established through painstaking door-to-door sales.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Research has shown that executives with social CEOs say their CEOs’ social media presence makes them feel inspired (52%), technologically advanced (46%), and proud (41%). For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. Companies don’t want to be left behind.

Media 8

Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 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. Since many of these businesses come out of Silicon Valley it is easy to think the largest risk is the underlying technology or competition.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents. In short, companies that want to get into this game will have to roll up their sleeves and do some old-fashioned blocking and tackling.

Company 8

Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

So while the App Economy booms, there are signs that its rapid expansion is a challenge for the current search, marketing, and monetization models — models that have been largely fashioned by blockbuster app titles and the big spenders behind them. First, there is something I call the “Discovery Dilemma.”

Development 8

Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article. Among the findings: Age isn’t a barrier to digital engagement.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. If AI-guided investing can work for a person, can it also work for a company?

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Later in the year, tragedy struck Dhaka, Bangladesh when a fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory killed or injured hundreds of people. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. Five Questions For 2013. on to 2013. This is the focus of my next project.).

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. Lars’s guys are irrational in a level-headed way, and Bob Shiller’s guys are irrational in a way that is subject to these social fads and fashions. Lars is famous for that.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. ” Ordinarily, computers tend to work in a linear fashion, so have a hard time working with more than a few levels of abstraction. “We could advance the core technology without being tied to a particular product. IBM invests in research that is often a decade ahead of its time.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8