Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. Having the team hear customer feedback firsthand was a big change, especially for the engineers. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.”

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. Let’s start with financing the deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The underlying premise is that it’s not enough to just hire the right people — those with strong values, great potential, and high competence — and develop them as individuals. Have you developed a wide array of internal and external networks? You also have to help them work together. How ambitious is your team?

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Team How To Efficiency Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character. That’s a big topic in its own right.

Education 8

Education Levitt Retail Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. They don’t need to be part of every discussion, but CEOs do need to make pricing and new product development their priority. About two-thirds were in B2B businesses.).

Price 11

Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Through sheer force of will (her passion was contagious and her research was solid) she enlisted 20 technical experts at the company, including a number of engineers who worked on their own time to help her advance the idea. Windham built an entire ad-hoc team at Stanley Black and Decker — product planners, executives, and engineers.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.). tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel.in

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat. Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6 Digital markets are uneven.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. But in April, just after U.S.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

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Policies Innovation Finance Industry 8