Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

” In the article, a marketing expert explains why societal shifts would render the door-to-door salesman obsolete. Buyers used the salesman’s help to evaluate what products to purchase, especially for new technologies like clocks and sewing machines. ” That 1916 prediction didn’t prove true.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Uncertainty Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. Information & technology Internet'

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The market will decide that. The beauty of the market is that it reveals the market participants' collective estimate of the price.

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

On November 15, 2013, China announced dramatic new social and economic policies contemplating much greater reliance on market forces than it has in the past and inviting private-sector participation and foreign competition in industries long previously controlled by the central government. China will grow faster in 2014 than in 2013.

Policies 8

Policies Class Health Care Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. In a 2013 advertisement in The Washington Post, HP claimed that if you measured countries by power consumption in kilowatts, the fifth largest after China, the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

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. While it is easy to categorize business as in line with the free market and progressives as anti-market, the reality is far more nuanced.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

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.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Those companies are at the bottom of the market, ignored by the mainstream but thriving in applications where customers don’t need all of the features of a traditional automobile, or in specific applications where EVs perform better than traditional vehicles.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Licensing Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet compared to great technological inventions of the past, it is also a colossal economic disappointment. The technologies of the past had massive new job creation effects that swamped displacement effects. Consider the integrated circuit, which first appeared on the market in 1961. I’m talking about jobs.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. It also required us to amend our compensation practices to be competitive in the technology space.”

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

PM David Cameron , November 20, 2013. So it is with high growth firms: studies of these firms show that their growth occurs in sudden, largely unforeseeable spurts for reasons ranging from market shifts, buyouts, recapitalizations, new management and sometimes luck. “Small business is the backbone of our economy.”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Policies Incubator Transportation 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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. Competing nations have also been expanding their space exploration efforts.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

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. It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 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

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. 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