Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Mintel’s 2015 American Lifestyles report projects that vacations, dining out, and other experiential categories will drive the growth in total consumer spending. The use of technology by leading companies from Apple to Uber to personalize their offerings have raised people’s expectations. Personalization is expected.

Retail 9

Retail Discount Reis Supply Chain 9

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.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

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).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In our research on how middle managers sell their ideas up the chain of command ( which we describe in the January-February 2015 issue of HBR ), we’ve found that those who do so most successfully are the ones who manage emotions on both sides. He wanted to sell his boss, the GM, on a safer and cheaper gas-scrubbing technology.

Engineering 11

Engineering Tactics Influence Middle Management 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Increasingly, tax preparation is being automated, and even auditing is going the way of algorithmic review and big data “sweeps” instead of sampling. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum.

Drucker 8

Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For instance, in analyzing a five-year sample of almost 1,150 papers, we identified at least 12 techniques, visible in the chart below, that can be readily applied and combined with each other within a process. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

The team provides for most doctors'' basic needs for samples and information at a substantially reduced cost. Third, new easy-to-use online webinar and videoconferencing technologies make it possible for inside salespeople to create customer intimacy without field interaction. Many B2B companies are making inside sales a priority.

B2B 8

B2B Power Market Segmentation Customer Intimacy 8

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

” Here’s the tip of a very big research iceberg that’s just a tiny sample that this year’s research uncovered: The 1987 Montreal Protocol banning CFCs reversed catastrophic ozone depletion, and the layer is now healing. Global malaria mortality has dropped by 60% between 2000 and 2015.

Globalization 94

Globalization Report Energy Sample 94

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Like leading the way in cup technology with the first U.S. We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults. billion in 2015 , companies have been spending more on cause-related marketing—it reached about $2 billion dollars in 2016. Good for you, you.”

Ethics 9

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? In 2015 we started to engage those clinical departments whose providers saw patients with conditions requiring frequent follow-up visits and infrequent physical exams, and who lived in Massachusetts but had difficulty coming into the office.

Health Care 8

Health Care Consultative Video Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Some of the most influential papers from the 1970s featured simple correlations and occasional regressions on cross-sectional data for modest samples, any of which might be rejected out of hand today. ” that originally appeared in the Administrative Science Quarterly, June 2015, Vol.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry. Fact 3: Considerable personality gaps exist between the sexes in inquisitiveness, sensitivity and impulsiveness.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

A specialist background to lead innovation is worth a 4% better shareholder return every year for 20 years, compared to other pharma CEOs in our sample. We used the measure to calculate the impact the CEOs in our sample had, during their tenure, on their companies’ average annual performance over the twenty-year period of our study.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made progress on a Zika test but needs more Zika blood samples to refine the technology. A doorstep diagnostic that showed promising results as early as October 2014 was not authorized by the FDA until January 2015 — and it was never used in the field.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Sample Incentives Development 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. Our sample population is based on companies which are listed on the NASDAQ, NYSE or FTSE 100 and have at least one active twitter account. The algorithm is able to infer gender based on language.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

We took the English proficiency scores for 70 countries, representing a sample set of nearly 1 million English language learners, and ran them against more than 800 World Development Indicators, finding high correlations between English ability and key indicators of innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Globalization Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Meerkat, which was the darling of SXSW 2015, allows people to experience anything virtually through live video streaming on their smartphones. New product launches lend themselves perfectly to these contests, because brands can use product samples as giveaways to entice consumers to try before they buy.

Media 8

Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

But affiliation doesn’t guarantee enthusiasm, as this sample of survey comments reveals: “On sabbatical from the Democratic party”; “Republican, unless they keep acting like goofballs”; and “Independent (especially this year!).

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8