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. billion in 2015. In 2015 alone the country attracted $9 billion in venture capital and was home to four “unicorns” — privately held ventures valued in excess of a billion dollars.

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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

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. 1 razor brand, saw its market share fall from 71% in 2010 to 59% in 2015. billion in 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The beer maker started as South Africa’s national champion, snapped up global brands such as Pilsner Urquell, Miller Lite, and Peroni, and ended up on the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE 100 list before being acquired by rival Anheuser-Busch InBev for $103 billion in late 2016. Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, and Georges Desvaux.

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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. For a period of 14 years, General Electric had the same American expat running the India operation, Scott Bayman. Understanding it takes time and focus.

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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 how General Electric arrived at the decision to develop and launch its Predix cloud-based industrial operation system.

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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. and pressing for more robust enforcement on U.S.

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Innovation Safe Harbor Compliance Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Traditional business models aim to create value for shareholders, often at the expense of other stakeholders. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based New Business Models, Old Strategies.

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Advertising Cost Business Model Information 10

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.

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Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Imagine the global potential if these local pockets of excellence could be harnessed for the benefit of whole populations. A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group, exploring how pioneering providers are making change happen. Insight Center. Leading Change in Health Care. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. The same, I’d suggest, is true about illegal business models. Uber’s Fundamental Illegality. A Race to the Bottom.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

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 A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. M-PESA offers services that are dislocating the banking architecture of Kenya, and not even global banking giants have been spared. Thinking local is strategic to appropriately examine competing business models.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 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. Today’s Digital Landscape.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

About the Research These insights stem from a three-year study (2015-18) in which 102 interviews were conducted with multinational executives, startup entrepreneurs, accelerator managers, government officials and industry experts in China and India, chiefly in the cities of Bangalore, Beijing, and Shanghai.

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Incubator Company Policies B2C 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. Thirty percent said that growth was more important than anything else.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 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. Meanwhile, in the northeast, the nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has been operating a cap and trade system covering power plants for several years. The program delivered $1.6

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Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

These are some of the basic assumptions behind the model that has guided the oil and gas industry for decades. But during the past decade, American shale oil and gas producers pioneered a new business model that shattered the incumbents’ approach. That has enabled the U.S. In January this year, the U.S.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

The most recent study, conducted in October 2015, surveyed 933 U.S. The on-demand economy is rapidly expanding across the global economy. According to Crowd Companies , a firm that tracks on-demand platform businesses, more than 280 companies provide on-demand goods and services across 16 industries today. since 1999.

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Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 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? Visionary firms win by being the first to introduce a revolutionary new product or business model.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. Over the last two years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its fifth, multi-thousand-page assessment of global climate science.

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. Find the proper pace for extracting resources from the legacy business. Radically reduce people dedicated to the old business. Can it do so at the speed of a start-up?

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. Corporations operate at the behest of societies, and are able to do so only because of great privileges conferred on them (not least their very status as legal entities).

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

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

APRIL 6, 2016

million drivers are active on the platform globally. Uber argues that its business model is premised on licensing software that acts as an intermediary between passengers and drivers.). The second is a new lawsuit, Meyer v. District Judge Jed Rakoff recently denied a motion by Kalanick to have the lawsuit dismissed.

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