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. In the U.S.,

Licensing 9

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following blog post is part 3 of a 3-part series , which is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir (CVO, CEO of ExactHire and Human Capital Concepts) at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. billion euro.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. Management endorsed her proposal to make over the New Delhi and Kolkata branches into all-women-staffed banks. So do employers and shareholders.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Case Study Banking 8

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. In 2015 global M&A volume surpassed $5 trillion — a record.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. There will be time to debate whether the EPA’s proposed targets are sufficiently ambitious. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The action thus far involves national for-profit firms, like the proposed acquisitions of Cigna by Anthem and Humana by Aetna. The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.” Aim 2: Raise Quality.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Unilever, for example, has found that its sustainable living brands are growing 30% faster than the rest of its business and in 2015 delivered nearly half the company’s total growth. of the time, and winning share in current markets and establishing a beachhead with future customers, cited 25.3% Segment the SDGs. of the time.

Development 11

Development Company Innovation Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. Debate-producing proposals on curbing gun violence have come from many corners, including the White House. presidential election.

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

From the industry side, attempts to impose taxes face stiff opposition; the beverage industry, for example, spends millions of dollars on lobbying and advertising against the proposed taxes. The chart below shows the average market shares by milk type in flat and non-flat pricing stores. We studied milk consumption for two reasons.

Price 8

Price Policies Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Indeed, there are signs that corporate leaders are repeating the mistakes of the heady days of 2000, when the fear of missing out sometimes overpowered the logic of a proposed deal. Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Defensive Moats.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015 the Army informed Riley that, because of his time away, he was not being promoted alongside 90% of his peers to the rank of 1st lieutenant and he would soon be facing a board to determine whether he should be separated from the Army altogether. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A recent USC study shows that across multiple and diverse markets, industries are 25% more likely to be “highly concentrated” than they were 20 years ago. Yet at the same time, America’s largest companies are more than twice as likely to lose market share than in 1980. corporate consolidation.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Aligning with creative colleagues, like those in design or marketing. Achieving our 2015 results. Imagine how great it will feel when we hit our targets — when we crush the competition and claim the market share we deserve? How do they measure success, and does your proposal support their success or put it at risk?

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Influence Audience Analysis Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

On September 29, 2015, Techdirt posted “ You Can Now Turn Off Ads On Techdirt ,” explaining all the reasons why they were granting readers the power to not see ads. According to PageFair and Adobe’s 2015 Global Adblocking Report , “there are now 198 million active adblock users around the world.”

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Some estimate the market for market research alone at $20 billion annually.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

trillion in 2015, a 6.5% Of course, life doesn’t stop when you’re in the air: emails still pour in, and reports and proposals are still expected. There are countless podcasts available on relevant professional topics, from legal issues to project management to entrepreneurship to marketing. increase over last year.

Travel 8

Travel Productivity Products How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We sent a call for proposals to three major academic centers in Chicago. After UCM reviewed feedback from its radiation oncology department that staffing levels were too low, Silver Cross agreed to hire more staff for the program in accordance with UCM’s proposed volume guidelines. The answer turned out to be in our own backyard.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Yet, unlike money, the market for personal data is relatively embryonic. DuckDuckGo — a search engine that allows users to access it anonymously — saw the number of daily queries double in the second half of 2013, and reach more than 7 million in early 2015. Will global regulation harmonize or fragment the market?

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

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. It may be surprising that in the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Analysis Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Employees are invited to propose ideas for new products and services that have a business case and promise to make a positive impact on society. Consider Barclays and two examples of intrapreneurs from programs run by the bank in 2013 and 2015. I wanted the opportunity to build a new business I was so passionate about.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

As Strategy& reported in its 2015 survey of 1,757 executives, “innovation today is a key driver of organic growth for all companies — regardless of sector or geography.” We know innovation drives corporate growth. GDP growth over the past 30 years. One possible explanation is that R&D has gotten harder.

Gordon 10

Gordon Company Innovation Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. The executives I work with speak openly about the market pressures for short-term performance.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, in 2015, Maersk and MSC, the world’s two largest liner shipping companies, established 2M, a 10-year vessel sharing agreement covering 193 vessels. A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. For example, in Shenzhen, China, a woman proposed to create a Tofu Boutique. The internet.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Companies will spend about $30 billion on CRM alone by the end of 2015, according to Gartner. Companies tend to do plans by business unit, regardless of the firm’s go-to-market approach (which often spans business units). While this is going on, the market is doing what the market will do.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products CRM Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

However, they are difficult for organizations to propose, prioritize, and fund. It’s understanding, for example, how automation and self-driving cars will slowly but radically transform job markets and proactively building new strategies to address those changes. We call it slow innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

We originally saw this "insourcing" phenomenon, as the White House now refers to it, starting around 2015. While the politicians have many proposals for recharging the U.S. and western export markets, while retooling plants in China to make goods for the Chinese and Asian markets. This could increase U.S.

Insourcing 9

Insourcing Supply Chain Offshoring Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Dhir , an associate professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, has done extensive research for his forthcoming 2015 book, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance and Diversity. There is heated discussion about the various mechanisms in place, and proposed, to include more women on boards.

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Osgood ROE Diversity Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Marketing experiments that might have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1995 might cost a couple of hundred dollars in 2015; maybe less. In purely human terms, serious researchers are the worst possible judges of their own proposed experiments.

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Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8