Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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 10

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

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 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 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

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 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 10

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

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 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The middle class, long the bread and butter of consumer companies of all kinds, is shrinking as a percentage of the population in mature markets. And in emerging markets, where many consumer companies have been laying their bets for the future, growth has started to slow. In emerging markets, that number is even higher, at 90%.

Maturity 8

Maturity Advertising Marketing Insurance 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. In the early 20 th century, advances in transportation, storage, and distribution largely took the task of physical fulfilment of goods away from salespeople.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Uncertainty Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

For example, in 2015, Jennifer Braus bought Systems Design West, which serves hundreds of municipal firehouses in the Pacific Northwest by handling billing to insurance companies for their emergency ambulance transports. Low growth, in contrast, means low risk, and low risk is great because it is your money at stake.

Company 8

Company Transportation System Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

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 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

But since there’s no way Nissan could address the goal solely through its products, it also propels creativity in marketing in order to change how all of us drive. ” Just within the auto and transportation industries, a few goals stand out: Honda: Bring well-to-wheel CO2 emissions down to zero.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

The most recent study, conducted in October 2015, surveyed 933 U.S. Transportation (e.g. Similarly, the on-demand market includes nearly the same incidence of “Hesitators” as in the general population, which can only occur if the platforms are accessible. and University of Miami marketing professor A.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

“Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Compress transit times.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

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 Included within this Industrial category are numerous sectors, from transportation to health care to oil and gas, each of which will be affected. Australia and China.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. They are paying up for strong business models with scale and access to valuable new markets, users, and distribution capabilities. Defensive Moats.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

August 2012: 40% increase in solar target (21 gigawatts by 2015). According to the bank HSBC, the clean economy will be a multi-trillion dollar market soon. After all, we're reinventing the world's largest industries: energy, transportation, and buildings. stimulus plan that funded clean tech, but times 10).

GDP 8

GDP Energy McKinsey Transportation 8

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.

Power 10

Power System Video Transportation 10

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

MARCH 6, 2012

We originally saw this "insourcing" phenomenon, as the White House now refers to it, starting around 2015. An estimated 600,000 to 1 million of these jobs would be directly in manufacturing, with the remainder in construction, orders for new equipment, supporting services, transportation and retail sales. This could increase U.S.

Insourcing 9

Insourcing Supply Chain Offshoring Apparel 9

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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

For further evidence of this, we examined the 2015 S&P 1500 Index , a mix of small-, medium-, and large-cap stocks, and separated the index based on industry sector according to FactSet’s industry classification. In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 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 9

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 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. Not surprisingly, people are lining up to buy them. But that is about to change.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Technology Long-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 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. Maternal mortality is an enormously complicated problem.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 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

OCTOBER 10, 2016

While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there. To enter the Indian market with more profitability, multinational companies would benefit by creative use of the country’s supply chain and the explosive growth of its online channel.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Marketing Contract Manufacturing Venture Funding 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

DECEMBER 15, 2016

And yet there’s room for even more industry growth, and more savings for American consumers: a recent study my team conducted found that antiquated regulations are costing the growing solar market an additional $70 billion. To understand why, we have to start by looking at the market for solar. solar in 2015.

Technology 8

Technology Energy System Cost 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 13

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

But in addition to such familiar jobs such as engineer, consultant, or financial analyst, we’re increasingly seeing new job titles emerge: forensic technologist, digital storyteller, and marketing automation manager. Labor market data tell us that these “hybrid” jobs are rapidly on the rise.

Education 8

Education Engineering System Storytelling 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. For example, the utility market is the single biggest sector in the U.S. The market was here so it always starts with demand. And our electric grid is behind other countries.

Innovation 14

Innovation Transportation Efficiency Technology 14