Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Others are driven by the desire to control or censor online media.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

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. Even when the boom in MBA programs coincided with the rise of Marketing as a discipline, Sales was treated like a stepchild at best.

Education 8

Education Levitt Retail Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 While articles in the media have focused on the impossibility of getting by on such low wages, little attention has been paid to the company’s enormous appetite for stock buybacks. For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. Ask people who have participated in the platform, and they will tell you that the community they built in the process of Kickstarting turned out to be more valuable than the financing they received.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Since the term was coined in 2007 , impact investing — the idea that private capital can be deployed to alleviate pressing social needs like access to clean water, affordable housing or preventative healthcare while returning a financial profit — has attracted significant public and media attention. According to another study, U.S.

Banking 9

Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

As a long-time business journalist in the mainstream media, my professional and personal reputation was on the line. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. In all honesty, I shared some of these concerns as well.

Industry 9

Industry Retail Banking Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

After weeks of media frenzy around the Greek election and the new government’s once-ambitious plans to renegotiate with the Eurozone over its debt crisis , the searchlights of publicity are shifting. And although it has been given a temporary lifeline, little has been resolved. Will there be progress in this regard?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014. And after withering down to 40 employees during the 2008 housing crisis, the company now has 175 employees.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

In the fall of 2014 my colleague Catherine Tucker and I conducted a large-scale experiment at MIT, in which 4,494 undergraduate students were offered access to bitcoin. It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The band was distributing its self-produced first album, having created buzz for it in online forums and chat rooms and building a community there (this was several years before Facebook and Twitter transformed social media). Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Digital players wield outsize market power.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In an epic September 2014 HBR article, “ Profits Without Prosperity ,” economist William Lazonick blamed buybacks for much of what ails the U.S. His arguments have begun to catch on , in the media at least. Singleton sort of resolutely ignored the conventional wisdom and the related noise from the media and the sell side.

Open-book 8

Open-book Price Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In an epic September 2014 HBR article, “ Profits Without Prosperity ,” economist William Lazonick blamed buybacks for much of what ails the U.S. His arguments have begun to catch on , in the media at least. Singleton sort of resolutely ignored the conventional wisdom and the related noise from the media and the sell side.

Open-book 8

Open-book Price Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

But when media coverage suggests Apple may redesign the automobile , even the most cynical car-lovers quiver with righteous curiosity. According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. They should.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people. Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size. Narrowly focused.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

billion market capitalization as of this writing. After some searching, TripAdvisor found a magical business model, representing social media and user-generated content at its best. At its current 20-25% revenue growth rate, TripAdvisor will reach the billion dollar revenue club in 2014. TripAdvisor's Future.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. It seems that social media has outgrown its “look at me and my selfie” babyhood phase and is now growing some teeth. Financing the clean economy. The fight against inequality finds new business allies.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Often the markets they supply shrink in size. In the meantime, the manufacturers and distributors of physical media are struggling. Even Redbox’s revenue plunged by almost 19%.

Retail 9

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India. That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 8