Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

On Monday, Europe''s largest derivatives market shut down for an hour because of a glitch. Now that the world is dependent on the internet, economies and markets are bound by these limits as well. The stock market in particular is at risk of hitting a major breakpoint. Pushed past the breakpoint, all systems risk collapse.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Long-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education.

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. job growth and economic security.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. Even if investors can now reach entrepreneurs anywhere, the aforementioned ‘home bias’ is a natural occurrence in the public and private securities markets.

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Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We live in a world where productivity, a key pillar of long-term economic growth, has crumbled. The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work. making_ultimate/Getty Images. No less significant than the jobs that will be displaced are the jobs that will change—and those that will be created.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

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 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 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

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

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 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. But is all of that changing? We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

October 2013) The Dark Side of Generic Drugs Dirty Medicine Fortune Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. In it, he traces the intersection of science and marketing that''s made junk food so delicious, so profitable, and so very bad for you. And we all know what happened next.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 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

JULY 9, 2015

Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013. As Adesina takes the helm of AfDB, he has a unique opportunity to lead inclusive growth in Africa, and influence a world looking for markets that better serve people.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

Further, the forum ought to be an opportunity for Nike to gather the customer feedback that fosters product improvements, shorter product development cycles, improved marketing strategies, and new distribution channels. Despite all this potential, however, the community features Nike offers have fallen short.

Brand 8

Brand Content Long-term Short-term 8

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. 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.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

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. Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

David Carr, at The New York Times , summarized the industry’s precarious position as follows: “Producing serious news is an expensive enterprise with a beleaguered business model, one that remains tied to the tracks as a locomotive of splintered audiences and declining advertising hurtles toward it.” ( The New York Times ; October 20, 2013).

Price 10

Price Content Reputation Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The number of companies targeted by activist hedge funds has increased dramatically since then, to more than 200 in 2013. Activists target firms that have invested less in IT than their peers, but three years after the intervention the affected plants have “caught up” in terms of tech investment. eBay is a recent example.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 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.

Drucker 9

Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 9

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.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

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. Technology was not yet powerful enough to capture much complexity. And it is the prod to us to better understand why. Education Managing uncertainty Research'

Management 9

Management Short-term System Uncertainty 9

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

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. million apps as of July 2015.

Development 8

Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Try thinking about this in terms of your own global business efforts. out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

.” Good means directors who exercise independent oversight and who are deeply engaged in the company’s long-term strategy. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

So while two of the three judges (the Clinton appointees) agreed that the FCC had the right to regulate broadband providers’ relationships with content providers (the FCC term is “edge providers”) even if it classified broadband as an information service, they didn’t think the agency had done it correctly up to now.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 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

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

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model 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. Similarly, when Renault entered India and introduced Kwid in 2015, Maruti and Hyundai had almost 70% of India’s large and fast-growing sub-compact car 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 technology is widespread and spreading fast. 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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8