Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. The amount of capital invested in those deals surged from $52 billion in 2010 to $171 billion in 2017 — a gain of 231%. Urbanization. The third factor is political.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2017, three minutes after the day opened at midnight, $1.5 At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. It’s amazing when you think that VISA’s stated capacity as of August 2017 was 65,000 payments per second globally. Singles Day is a technological marvel.

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Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 234

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. Data-Driven Marketing. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. The situation was untenable.

Retail 8

Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

PwC’s 2017 Risk in Review report revealed that 47% of corporate officers said they track their risk appetite – up from 36% in 2015. No amount of research and iterating will guarantee market success. Choose an optimal launch date based on your timeline and market variables.

Content 8

Content Creativity Maturity Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors.

Company 10

Company Survey Finance Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. So far in 2017, GE is the worst-performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But the security industry is a fast-growing market, with IDC pegging it as becoming a $101 billion opportunity by 2020. One of the big reasons is that security businesses tend to look for people with traditional technology credentials — college degrees in tech fields, for example. million unfilled positions by 2020.

Education 10

Education How To Industry Career 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Adding 600 new customers a day, M-KOPA intends to cross the million-unit mark by the end of 2017. Meanwhile, even middle-class Americans are being priced out of the housing market in states like California, where average low-tier property prices went up by 10% in 2015. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015 the Army informed Riley that, because of his time away, he was not being promoted alongside 90% of his peers to the rank of 1st lieutenant and he would soon be facing a board to determine whether he should be separated from the Army altogether. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

The Hunger Games combined science fiction and adventure (conventional boy stuff) with a strong sense of romance (conventional girl stuff), and it addressed our anxieties about technology and surveillance. You could point to the economy (the stock market, the inflation rate, the unemployment rate). People needed a lift.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

This has big implications for businesses, entrepreneurs, and innovators seeking growth beyond their home markets: there just isn’t a one-size-fits-all app or approach to building scale in the global digital economy. While other ASEAN countries have online users, they aren’t using that technology to shop or do business.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Policies Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. What do the most remarkable deals of 2017 tell us about this remix and its effects on our daily lives? Carson Jimi Filipovski/Unsplash. The great business remix of the last three years shows no sign of abating. Our health.

Automotive 8

Automotive Retail Restructuring Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

A few years ago, it was clear that mobile technology was changing the way people searched when they wanted to know, go, do or buy. With advancing technology, people are again changing how they search — and time is of the essence. search interest for “ open now ” grew 300 percent from June 2015 to June 2017.

Marketing 8

Marketing Content Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Over the past 18 months, Sergey’s experience has been echoed in offices in Ukraine, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and many other emerging markets that have faced substantial currency depreciation due to the drop in commodity prices and the flow of capital to the U.S. Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g.,

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. While much has changed even since 2015, there are roadblocks on the journey that have remained surprisingly resilient. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital players wield outsize market power. Digital markets are uneven.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 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

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Unlike Bentley or Rolls-Royce, GM is a mass-market car company in the U.S.

CEO 9

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. Insight Center.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

Twenty years later, as an executive coach, work-life sustainability is a prominent issue that my clients grapple with, as they face the ever-higher work demands that have come with advances in technology. A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout.

Team 10

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. And going into 2017, just two years from now, the momentum they will have generated will force executives at your company to sidestep drones, self-driving cars, and robots to focus on this technology.

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

Candidate vaccines for Zika won’t begin large-scale trials until 2017 and, assuming they work safely, would not be available until 2018 or later. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made progress on a Zika test but needs more Zika blood samples to refine the technology. This is exactly what happened during Ebola.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Sample Incentives Development 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A second paper, published in 2017 , by the London School of Economics examined actual employment data from the last few decades. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs. The dissemination of technology. The need for investment in technology.

TCO 73

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 73

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. A new Oxfam study reports that the richest 1% of the world cornered 82% of the wealth created in 2017. In the U.S.,

Class 8

Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? Debates about climate change melted away. Then came 2016.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly. Conservatives would counter that they are being asked to bear the costs of unproven new technologies.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. Republican members supported and provided most of the votes for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in 2015. If the president had acted just a year earlier, the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8