Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

” In the article, a marketing expert explains why societal shifts would render the door-to-door salesman obsolete. Fast forward to 2015. Over the years, innovations in distribution, media, and technology have enabled buyers to use non-sales force channels for various steps of their buying journey.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Uncertainty Forrester 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large.

Airlines 9

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. This needs to change.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

The most recent study, conducted in October 2015, surveyed 933 U.S. Transportation (e.g. “Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. since 1999. adults sampled at random from a consumer research panel. billion in spending.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Throughout four-day visit, arrived early and left late to ensure that everything ran smoothly, including meetings, housing, transportation, and meals. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago.

COO 12

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. In early 2015 the government announced its intention to auction 450 beer licenses to grocery stores, citing Ontarian’s demands as the motivating factor. Consumer clubs.

Licensing 9

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In order for Nissan to actually pursue the Vision Zero goal, the company is forced to think differently about innovation and product development, developing technologies that keep cars from hitting each other. Deutsche Bahn: Achieve rail transport that is CO2-free and powered by renewables.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Pathway two is what we’re doing now, and it sounds so tranquil and market-based.

Efficiency 11

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Consider that the basis for the health care market’s inertia — the resistance of the incumbents to changing the volume and direction of the money flowing in the current system — is counted in trillions of dollars. These shifts are finally creating the market demand — the business case — for solutions to emerge.

Health Care 8

Health Care Analysis Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. 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 Australia and China.

Early Adopters 10

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

As Lawrence Susskind, a professor in MIT’s urban systems department, described it to me, “Millions…could be left with no electricity, no water, no public transportation, and no waste disposal for weeks (or even months)… No one can protect critical urban infrastructure on their own. And we need it now.

Power 9

Power System Video Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

There is another reason, too, that the drone market is set to take off. In February, as part of an FAA spending bill, Congress ordered the agency to develop rules by 2015 that would allow military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Government Innovation Technology'

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Technology Long-term Innovation 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. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

While there has been progress made in many countries by smart, passionate people in global health, the United Nations acknowledges that its Millennium Development Goal to dramatically reduce maternal mortality by 2015 is at great risk for failure. Pursue scientific innovation. Maternal mortality is an enormously complicated problem.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

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. The numbers are striking. CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker.

CEO 8

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Take a look at the transportation network. The president wants to double exports by 2015; you can't do that without a modern infrastructure. Investing in infrastructure also drives innovation, creating the kinds of jobs we want in this country around new technologies like smart grid, renewables and high-speed rail.

Innovation 13

Innovation Transportation Efficiency Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 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. lucydphoto/Getty Images. billion by 2050. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 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

APRIL 12, 2017

This income volatility is the result of broad shifts in the labor market. In addition, the rising relative costs of health care, housing, education, and transportation stretched budgets and cut into the slack available to buffer shocks, especially with the well-documented stagnation of real wages for most workers.

Health Care 11

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. Empowering Digital Societies.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 Investing in innovation capacity.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. Electricity generation and transportation each constitute around 30% of total emissions, with industrial sources making up 20% of total emissions. The reduction in total emissions has been driven by the electricity sector. Blue States.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8