Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The main goal of bidding is get the cheapest price. If you win, it’s likely you did at a severe reduction of price and loss of profit. Especially as it relates to their actual experience and their projected needs. Make your case against taking the lowest price and in favor of making a profit. That’s the bad news.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. 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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. In the more recent crises, Bernanke explained, liquidity started to dry up when housing prices declined, and subprime mortgage defaults rose in 2007. earlier this month. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Or you could completely undercut industry pricing models by, say, 90%. You don’t cut prices by 90% through marginal improvements in existing products. If such radical price competition seems far-fetched, consider how smartphone and iPhone apps have cut the legs out from under numerous incumbents, like GPS manufacturers.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

You should be able to pick up a Mayan calendar at half price now! ‘Tis the season for futurists, forecasters, and analysts to line up with seers, fortune tellers, and prophets to earnestly foretell what 2013 has in store for us. See New Year’s Prediction Alert: It’s Silly Season Again!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Or you could completely undercut industry pricing models by, say, 90%. You don’t cut prices by 90% through marginal improvements in existing products. If such radical price competition seems far-fetched, consider how smartphone and iPhone apps have cut the legs out from under numerous incumbents, like GPS manufacturers.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

we are contending with wave after wave of jobs moving overseas, markets that whip up and down, and energy prices rising at an unprecedented rate. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the U.S., There is a nagging sense that something is not right as we face still more layoffs and plant closings while profits go up.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. Rather than trying to duplicate or invent it, they just acquire the startup, and if they acquire it early enough, then they might get a good price. If they wait too long, of course, it’s impossible price.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Moreover, this form of competition can lead to price pressure , which may have a damaging effect on industry profits. However, the battle for customer preference is not solely fought in specific product and price categories — it is also fought in the domains of location and promotional expenditure. Competition for excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Later stage clean energy investments — like projects to deploy wind and solar — have remained somewhat more popular than early-stage start-ups, but are nonetheless down in recent years. Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak 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. Price versus Value. From the customer's standpoint, the cost of the salesperson's solution was prohibitive because the perceived value of the operational benefits did not justify the price. 800 Pound Gorilla.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 6, 2012

But after all the presents are wrapped (and then opened), after the decorations have been put away (or not), after the ball has dropped in Times Square, it’ll be time to get back to work and show 2013 who’s boss! Price: $ 249. You’ll come out of the session with practical next steps to move your initiative forward.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

introductory prices of some Apple products against figures for median monthly household income during the year each product was introduced. But that’s not just a function of the company’s focus on upscale, high-margin hardware; it’s the story of the price of computing and a historical look at Moore’s Law.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Companies in commoditizing industries tend to follow one of two strategies: either they try to find new services to offer around the product or they compete on price. Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project. This project called for cement walls able to filter light.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

When financial services company Square priced its IPO at $9 a share last November, well under the $15+ price that private investors paid the year before, it was a cold shower of reality for the 6-year-old company. Smaller competitor Box already is working on other innovations, including a project management app.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). For example, one participant focused on creating a new pricing scheme.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

in 2013 and 8.9% growth rate this year to a slowdown in exports and the government's intervention to stave off inflation and rein in property prices. growth rate this year to a slowdown in exports and the government's intervention to stave off inflation and rein in property prices.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. This week, the share price of Trina Solar Ltd.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Here’s what he told Kestenbaum: “If you interpret the word ‘bubble’ to mean, ‘I can predict when prices are gonna go down,’ you can’t do it.”. Fama is surely right that nobody can reliably predict exactly when prices are gonna go down. They are, as paraphrased by Kestenbaum: Rapidly increasing prices. That’s pretty good.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Win on merit.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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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. Price versus Value. From the customer's standpoint, the cost of the salesperson's solution was prohibitive because the perceived value of the operational benefits did not justify the price. 800 Pound Gorilla.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. There is ample evidence that things are better, trader-driven stock price gyrations notwithstanding. Housing prices have stabilized and are increasing in some regions. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

They want insurers to compete with one another on the basis of price and service. The exchanges can require insurers to offer certain standardized plans so that customers can easily compare price and service. in the September 26, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). Not all of these innovations will succeed.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. billion in mining projects since 2010. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion in revenue in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

At one of the company’s sustainability ”milestone meetings” in 2013, one senior exec said the initiatives would “help us keep our stores up and running no matter how bad the weather is or who else might be down.” Consider Walmart’s significant commitments to energy efficiency and renewables.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. running out of ink), and it enticed many customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. In that same period PPG’s share price has risen by a compound average rate of 6.6%, compared to 5.1% Given the still-prevailing “conglomerate discount” Western firms are subject to (i.e.,

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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. But more data in itself does not lead to better analysis, as amply demonstrated with Flu Trends. Can we do better?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

For many companies, the price tag and the commitment of resources are too high a hurdle. From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents. And they are , despite the enormous potential they bring to the marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population.

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