Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

He died virtually penniless in a hotel room in New York. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) Although Tesla’s ideas arguably were more brilliant, he was unable to commercialize his ideas. and we like to stick to our knitting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Similarly, in 2013, Selfridges, the high-end British department store, built a quiet room where consumers can relax and engage in both embodied and technological deceleration. As reported here , Origins, a skin-care and make-up brand, redesigned its stores to provide more places for shoppers to sit down, encouraging embodied deceleration.

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Tourism Hotels Transportation Fashion 12

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. DAVID: Yeah. I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

based Hotel Tonight , a last-minute online-booking service founded in 2010. She identified her home country of Spain as a great market to port the model to. First, she had to persuade many hotels in Spain to sign up for the service, often by conducting individual sales calls. Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

For proof , look no further than Airbnb which, at $10 billion, can boast a higher valuation than the Hyatt hotel chain. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Judson Manor is a gracious former 1920s luxury hotel near The Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and many of the museums and arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., HBR/Martin Barraud/Getty Images.

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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. We identified two sides to the problem: the jobs gap and the skills gap.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Thus we have a world in which citizens find it easier to compare pubs than public schools, to compare hotels than hospitals. That’s where advocacy marketing, finding key influencers to help drive your message across, can help. The key component here is that many citizens may not know about the digital offerings available to them.

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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. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world. In 2013 in U.S.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

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 been increasing its spending on infrastructure such as airports, new cities, hotels, ports, roads, bridges, hospitals, and power plants.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Caesars Entertainment has built test-and-learn into its marketing investments. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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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. All Airbnb does is offer a connection between home and flat owners with rooms to rent to people looking for a lower-priced alternative to hotels.

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