Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Such high-profile exposure has prompted more companies to view ZBB as a fresh “wonder diet” for achieving radical corporate leanness.

Zero Based Budgeting 8

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S. Nor are they entirely innocent. The growing economic inequality that polarizes U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I sometimes hear leaders in large companies musing about creating “startup-style” incentives to reward people who come up with brilliant ideas that help increase revenue or cut costs; few actually follow through. In March 2015, Target hired three outsiders as “entrepreneurs-in-residence.” Fear of failure.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In 2015 U.S. The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. Firms can disclose the vesting schedule of incentives. In the U.K.

CEO 8

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. There seems to be variety in customers’ requirements, meaning that software vendors would not be able to tap into the whole market without a perpetual license offering.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly. Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency. A culture of shared values.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

They avoid getting trapped on a growth treadmill, chasing multiple market opportunities where they have no right to win. Another standard business practice for solving execution problems is structural change: reworking the org chart and rethinking incentives. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

It also rests on aligned and fair incentives. Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

To answer these questions, I talked to Marc van Zadelhoff, VP of IBM Security, about the current state of cybersecurity and the Ponemon Institute’s 2015 study of cybersecurity around the world, which IBM sponsored. If you’re getting breached, there’s an incentive to talk about it as being an attack as opposed to a mistake.

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They need density—what’s known as a “thick market” in trading financial assets—more than just scale. It provided an organizing framework for collecting empirical evidence on how successful platforms operated and why some matchmaker pioneers succeeded and most didn’t. percent in June 2015, to 0.6

Retail 8

Retail Business Model Press Release Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I also know all too well that, like all strategies, superconsumer strategies can be hard to implement, because of internal processes, misaligned incentives, and organizational structures that are difficult to navigate. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

These cases clearly point to the importance of understanding how platform-employers operate, and how work is structured within semi-automated, algorithmic management systems. Aside from surge messaging, Uber also nudges offline drivers to work at certain times or in certain locations through various incentives and messaging.

Management 8

Management Price Disaggregation System 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

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Consumer markets in the developing world are an enormous but still-untapped opportunity for companies seeking new sources of growth. The challenges – market development, product design, logistics, communication — deter many companies from even considering rural markets in developing countries. Worldwide, there are 3.4

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Cost Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. In terms of more incremental reforms, a minimum tax would ensure that companies operating in the lowest tax countries pay at least some level of taxes. Further, U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

For example, solutions provider Oracle built huge market share by supporting multiple platforms like Windows and Linux. In many cases, the decision was influenced by the platform’s incentives, success in attracting a following, and technological superiority — something that should happen in the IoT ecosystem as well.

Software 8

Software Industry Incentives System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

What the United States needs are smart economic policies that disrupt the market forces that are currently driving undocumented immigration. Many of these coyotes are freelancers, shoestring operations that survive in the marketplace thanks to the U.S.’s Employers therefore have little incentive to use a legal process.

Policies 10

Policies Game Theory Incentives Document 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

More than 365 companies and investors voiced their support for the US Clean Power Plan in 2015. Companies invested significant resources in pushing for high public policy ambition in agreeing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Ultimately, long-term legitimacy, reputation, and license to operate are at stake.

Globalization 9

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. In 2015, the FCC succeeded. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. Moreover, not a single publicly-traded U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

The media did exactly what it was designed to do, given the incentives that govern it. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off. Thinking that way is tempting, but it misses the mark.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9

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. There is also the practical problem of time.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

.” Businesses and consumers are being warned that Republican lawmakers are united in their determination to not just modify the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order, but to “kill,” “destroy,” “dismantle,” or “abolish,” the open internet, as soon as possible. More on that later.)

Objective 8

Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8