Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering. How the stock market responds. New information is provided to the market on the announcement date, as opposed to the issue date.

Bond 10

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. Over the course of the last few decades, multinationals have entered and left “frontier markets” like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, Myanmar, and others.

Politics 12

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in cash and short-term investments — and my sense from looking at the numbers for the past couple of quarters is that it could probably be making some money, too (that is, generating positive free cash flow), if that were a priority. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it.

Marketing 9

Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 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

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. and spends it in international markets. Aldi UK sales grew from $6.3

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. So allow me.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In April 2013, over 1,100 workers died in Bangladesh when a garment factory complex called Rana Plaza collapsed. Are workers in that country or other emerging markets any safer today? That’s the discussion I moderated on November 18, 2013, at the Boston Global Forum. Such collective action is essential.

Retail 8

Retail Globalization Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

and in its home market in the U.K. having sacrificed customer intimacy for increased operational excellence gains through widespread cost cutting, are well documented. In the UK, Tesco lost the plot several times in recent years as they grew to double the market share of competitors like Sainsbury''s and Asda/WalMart.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Many customers asked for insurance not on a yearly basis but for very short periods for very specific activities. After all, one of the big reasons that insurers sell long term policies is the high up-front cost of selling. GE is moving to an outcome-based economic model, bringing the company closer to its customers’ operations.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? In the same way that markets have always outperformed command economies, the transactional efficiencies possibly lost are more than made up for by the ecosystems value effectiveness.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The New Tools of Marketing. And tracking has become steadily more prevalent as marketing’s appetite for “big data” and “personalized” ad messages has grown from hunger to gluttony. See PageFair’s 2013 and 2014 reports). Terms by which individuals deal with companies will solidify.

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 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. Of course we know that constantly dialing down expenses and investments to boost short-term margins inevitably damages the long-term health of the company.

Management 9

Management Short-term System Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? There is perhaps one place where this paradigm still exists: the gym. .

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Too many options can overload short-term memory, inhibiting the ability to process information, creating cognitive overload. In addition, brands that are perceived as being simple in their “products, services, interactions, and communications” outperformed indices on the stock market by as much as 100%.

Brand 11

Brand Survey Globalization Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In contrast, several longer-term structural factors are contributing to the dearth of small business lending.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. Think BlackBerry, for example.

Drucker 9

Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Too many options can overload short-term memory, inhibiting the ability to process information, creating cognitive overload. In addition, brands that are perceived as being simple in their “products, services, interactions, and communications” outperformed indices on the stock market by as much as 100%.

Brand 8

Brand Survey Globalization Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. ” Good means directors who exercise independent oversight and who are deeply engaged in the company’s long-term strategy. companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 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

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. .”

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. When prediction is hard and advantage is short-lived, the only shield against continuous disruption is a readiness and an ability to repeatedly change oneself. • Adaptive: Be fast. • Visionary: Be first.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

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

JUNE 7, 2013

Its approach was the first to align the key actors in the ecosystem in a way that addressed the critical shortcomings — range, resale value, grid capacity — that undermine the electric car as a mass-market proposition. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

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. Long-term, however, the brain isn''t made to cope with stress.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Longer term, the travails of the Trans-Pacific Partnership underscore the critical need for presidential administrations to negotiate and close trade deals with an eye toward timing and congressional support. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. The few reviews revealed small, inconclusive, or short-term effectiveness.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8