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.

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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. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology. Sponsored by DXC Technology. As with all such innovations, a global standards war is under way.

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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. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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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. As London Business School’s Lynda Gratton points out : “We’ve designed work that takes away the only opportunity humans have to be different from machines.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Fueling this dynamism, Africa is adopting technology at a furious pace: it will soon have double the number of smartphone connections than North America. Yet Africa remains a challenging place to do business. In the early part of this century, most global firms saw Africa as unattractive, so we had limited competition.”

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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.

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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."

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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).

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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 technologies are poised to change the future of work.

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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 has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Even more important, local firms can become global competitors. Mahindra & Mahindra , a local Indian firm, has risen to challenge John Deere in the worldwide agricultural tractor business. GM will keep its technology center in Bangalore. 4 — Strategy Also Needs to Be Based on Volume and Scale.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The rise of the so-called “gig economy” has reshaped how we think about business models and jobs, exemplified by the likes of Uber and TaskRabbit. If you are a bookkeeping accounting or auditing clerk, 86% of your tasks could be automated with current technology - and there are 1.6 The Digital Economy as a Jobs Risk.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Economic activities centered around online platforms, where independent sellers can offer goods or services to customers, are attracting significant consumer attention and spending, according to new data from the National Technology Readiness Survey* (NTRS), which has tracked technology behaviors and beliefs in the U.S. since 1999.

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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.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

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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. But in 2015, CostCo shifted its affiliation to Citigroup’s Visa.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

The World Health Organization describes stress as the “ global health epidemic of the 21st century.” Our current work culture is a direct reflection of the increasing complexity and demands faced by businesses globally. The Global Corporate Challenge study of over 1.5

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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.

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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.

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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. But no country is delivering these transformational changes. Insight Center.

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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.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

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. But Grab versus Uber seems to defy this winner-take-all narrative.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

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. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. tax jurisdiction.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It is the algorithms that will create value for the business. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The Global Digital Economy. Find the proper pace for extracting resources from the legacy business. On both counts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

The subtitle of this year’s summary could be “reports, reports, reports,” with important and fascinating (no, really) studies from economists, government agencies, scientific bodies, and business coalitions — all making a compelling case for action on climate change. It’s hard out there if you’re a utility.

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

In 2015, 2/3 of U.S. With an emphasis on quick-dry convenience through their Aerocotton Technology, I was convinced that these towels were the perfect combination of softness, durability, and absorbency. For every 100 ms of improvement, they grew incremental revenue by up to 1% (Source: Global Dots ).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

million drivers are active on the platform globally. Uber Technologies , a pending class-action lawsuit by Uber drivers in California, which alleges that drivers are misclassified as independent contractors. The tension between trying to standardize an experience and giving drivers true independence has manifested in two lawsuits.

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