Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

For example, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City and Salt Lake City are among the fastest-growing hubs for high-tech startups in the country, according to a 2013 report by the Kauffman Foundation. In layman’s terms, venture capitalists don’t want to fly across the country for a board meeting. About the Author.

Company 52

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

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

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 Benchmarking Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. In short, you wouldn’t have needed big data at all to do better than Google Flu Trends. Unfortunately, no.

Trends 8

Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. Over half of this money was spent on new housing.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Energy Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Later, as a project officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, he channeled resources to risk mitigation schemes that allowed banks to better serve small farmers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 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. Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. 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.

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Short of any singing, dancing, and costume changes, this sequence could have been taken from Bollywood, a movie industry widely known for its fantastical flights of fancy. Public policy for rooting out corruption calls for a systemic approach, with carrots and sticks to motivate cultural, institutional, and behavioral change in the long term.

GDP 10

GDP Banking Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. But because midsize companies lack the resources of big companies, which can experiment with multiple new strategies and launch pilot projects, midsize firms are at risk when they divert scarce resources from their core business. The results were remarkable.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Were you misled by the data?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.].

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

This invasion stems from the explosion of content marketing , a content creation tactic that when paired with high-authority publishers can be used to improve Google rankings. Other popular terms included: interesting data, actionable advice, trending/timely angles, and high arousal emotions.

Public Relations 17

Public Relations Press Release Content Survey 17

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

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