Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, ushered in a new era of globalization. Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. The economic gains for developing countries have been extraordinary.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. million Series D in November 2015 — Dollar Shave Club had been valued at $630 million, according to Pitchbook. The deal is full of intriguing details. billion in 2020.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Winning over Indian consumers seems to officially have become one of the global tech industry’s Next Big Things. becoming the second largest smartphone market in the world. billion in 2015. Clearly, there’s awareness and connectivity between major corporate leadership and the prospective tech market in India.

Price 8

Price Globalization Forrester Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Africa shows every sign of being the world’s next big growth market. It is home to more fast-growing economies than any other region, hundreds of successful big companies, and an urbanizing consumer market whose spending outstrips that of India. Yet Africa remains a challenging place to do business. billion by 2050.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Using the same formula, Apple’s intangible assets in 2014 were $280 billion — or almost twice the value of its 2015 calculation.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

A 2015 Nielsen Global Sustainability Report found that 43% of consumers say that a company’s commitment to social value “very heavily” or “heavily” influenced their purchase decisions. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. In 2015, more than $10.5 Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Price eBook Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In industries being disrupted by new entrants with distinct business models, incumbents often have an important advantage: entrenched regulatory and legal barriers. These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

Licensing 9

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Like its American compatriot Ford Motor Company , GM’s market share in India has always been in the single digits, but recently Ford has reported rising monthly sales of 36% in India. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Even more important, local firms can become global competitors.

CEO 9

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

But for Catalyst, the pharmaceutical company that purchased the North American rights to a slightly modified formulation of 3,4 DAP (Firdapse) in 2012, the drug represented a market opportunity to the tune of $300 million to $900 million annually ($60,000 to $100,000 or more per patient).

Price 14

Price Pharmaceuticals Company Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. And Europe’s concerns are global concerns. We want to participate in U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation Safe Harbor Compliance Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. ” In June 2015 survey, the question revealed that public confidence had slumped across all major institutions, except the military and small business, to a historic low.

Drucker 8

Drucker Hotels Decentralization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today. As with all such innovations, a global standards war is under way. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

Insurance 10

Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Consider the challenge companies face in the rapidly changing market for power train compressors.

CEO 11

CEO Agility Technology Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

"Asia Fueling Global Innovation." While that presents a clear challenge — retaining the awesome accumulated knowledge of these scientists — it also creates an opportunity to make sure that R&D talent is balanced with global opportunities. Simplifying technology and new business models." Non-consumption."

Innovation 14

Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

There are two contemporary strategic imperatives, among others, that many executives are grappling with: (1) competing in emerging markets and (2) partnering with startups to gain exposure to novel ideas and opportunities. Such considerations seem less pertinent in a market like India where nationally mandated focus areas are less engrained.

Incubator 8

Incubator Company Policies B2C 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

MARCH 25, 2016

Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Organizations, whether businesses or nonprofits, almost universally pursue growth. In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. Where are the markets with opportunities?

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Though the new law was intended to unify and simplify European data practices, moreover, the minimum cost of compliance for anyone doing business with any EU resident is estimated by one survey at $1 million just for changes to IT systems , not to mention the costs of a newly designated data protection officer.

Advertising 10

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. When and how can a smaller local player fend off a global giant? And what can Grab teach us about the future of platform businesses? To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform.

Transportation 9

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Top startups already have market leading solutions.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. trillion euros.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Improving Financial Performance.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

The most recent study, conducted in October 2015, surveyed 933 U.S. For instance, the on-demand market claims more than its fair share of “Pioneers” – 29% compared to 23% in the general population – even though this segment requires a degree of assurance and ease-of-use before they will embrace a service innovation.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Twenty–30% of the working age population do some form of independent work, according to McKinsey’s Global Institute , and that share is growing rapidly. In 2008, the rate of job creation fell even further—below 1%—and has remained at that historically low level through 2015.

Katz 8

Katz Disaggregation McKinsey Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

As business strategists, we see endless amounts of writing about how to achieve differentiation. But we are also regularly reminded of the lack of true differentiation in most mainstream global companies — and of the opportunities they are thus squandering. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed.

IAM 10

IAM Productivity Products Company 10

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 We believe this segment could generate meaningful revenue in the near term. Samsung expects the bulk of this opportunity to be driven by the U.S., Australia and China.

Early Adopters 10

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

And it would take them as long as 5 to 10 years to explore, develop, and then bring production to market after investing billions of dollars into new fields. These are some of the basic assumptions behind the model that has guided the oil and gas industry for decades. That has enabled the U.S. In January this year, the U.S.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. More and more of human lives are marketized and commodified on technology platforms. ” Commodification.

Film 8

Film Drucker Technology Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

In 2015, 2/3 of U.S. Yet on the other side, as an online marketing executive, my job has never been more challenging. I currently lead E-Commerce and Digital Marketing at Journelle.com, a startup luxury lingerie retailer. The volume is bigger than any marketer can dream. If I try to do both, how do I pull that off?

Loyalty 9

Loyalty Price Retail Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

M-PESA offers services that are dislocating the banking architecture of Kenya, and not even global banking giants have been spared. Through Paypal, Nigerians spent $610 million via their mobile phones on international shopping in 2015, depriving local banks forex fees. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

By 2015, according to my own firm''s projections , not only will 75 percent of the world''s population have access to the internet. And, starting now, they must create the organizations and web-based business models that can turn these ideas into reality. So will some six billion devices.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Large food retailers such as Kroger, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Carrefour, and Wal-Mart stand in a unique position to address this global food issue. However, their high volume–low margin business model also makes them vulnerable to threats such as competition, increasing wholesale prices, and changing consumer demands.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

has taken in the fight against global climate change: The S&P 500 and Dow Jones stock indexes rose to record highs. ” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

And these often have to be significantly better than what’s on the market (in other words, breakthroughs) due to the high cost of R&D. For example, Brian McNamee of CSL Ltd made a series of global acquisitions to turn Australia’s small Commonwealth Serum Laboratories into the global leader in plasma products.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8