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. Last year, Nature reported that Flu Trends overestimated by 50% the peak Christmas season flu of 2012.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Field Sales Revenue Trends. Inside Sales Roles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs would pay VCs well, through carry, when they do what they say they will: generate great returns in excess of the public markets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. project management), specialized skills (e.g., First, some context. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Nevertheless, Smithsonian magazine reports, KFC managed to create a marketing campaign — Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii! The Silver Bullet Fix (Project Syndicate). “No Five Trends to Ignore in 2013 (Inc.). Christmas isn’t a national holiday in Japan, where only about 1% of the population is Christian. TIME-SINK CITY.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy. In March, it announced a major partnership with Luxottica , the world’s largest eyewear company, a move clearly aimed at the mainstream market. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. In almost every interview, salespeople also lamented the lack of leads being generated by their marketing department as well. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., Their agenda is to create this market and make a profit, but they describe themselves decidedly as a social enterprise, one that uses housing as a basis for creating connection across generations. age segregation is often as ingrained as racial segregation.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. In almost every interview, salespeople also lamented the lack of leads being generated by their marketing department as well. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

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Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

In e-commerce, advances in tracking and analytics have made it possible for retailers to understand what individual customers are doing before they make a purchase, and to gather and analyze hundreds and thousands of data points to identify trends. Brick-and-mortar stores haven’t had the same advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As a result, the United States experienced five years of the lowest growth in health care costs ever in the 2009-2013 period — although an uptick in the rate in 2014 raises questions about what it will take to contain costs on a sustainable basis. Insight Center. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 2, 2013

Attempting projects without the proper resources to do the job well. Offering highly creative ideas and brain power to those who could not grasp their brilliance… especially to those who were fishing for free ideas they could then market as their own. Changing trends, upon which I could not capitalize but which others could.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Those attributes help us identify a set of likely trends on the horizon. Then, we put each trend through what we call The Five Questions: Where/how are people wasting their time?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

“One, you have to replace the talent, and in a time of tight labor markets, that’s a very hard—and very expensive—endeavor,” explains John Sullivan, an HR expert, professor of management at San Francisco State University, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

We see a paradox in two important analytics trends. These increases are expected despite the fact that top marketers report that the effect of analytics on company-wide performance remains modest, with an average performance score of 4.1 Data-Driven Marketing. MirageC/Getty Images. to 17.3%—a whopping 198% increase.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2013

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

GE has also introduced it to American customers at the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. A recent test project for Christiansen and the team has been in the Ormen Lange natural gas field off the Norwegian coast. Kendall, European Marketing Manager of Shell.

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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.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

billion in 2030 (out of a projected global population of 8.3 But every region of the world will participate in the trend, including Africa, which the African Development Bank estimates already has a middle class of more than 300 million people. Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2013. billion in 2009 to 3.2

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors. Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 .” – John R. Why is this becoming more prevalent? No wonder we have skills shortages!

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