Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. This new funding mechanism is already transforming the blockchain industry.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” Nabob, you’re a feisty fella. competitors are entering the market.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” Such trends are more than shiny objects; they’re manifestations of sustained changes within an industry sector, society, or human behavior. Here are eight to note for 2016.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Brian Goodman is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Technossus , a rapidly growing enterprise-class software solutions and technology consulting firm that assists business leaders to accelerate change and deliver sustainable results. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. And launch.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. But developing economies are rising up the rankings.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Insight Center.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Startups such as Wealthfront, Personal Capital, and Betterment launched robo-advisors as industry disruptors, and incumbents, such as Schwab’s (Intelligent Advisor), Vanguard (Personal Advisor Services), Morgan Stanley and BlackRock have joined the fray with their own hybrid machine/advisor solutions. 5 trillion to U.S. $7

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The financial industry has enthusiastically and profitably embraced big data and computational algorithms, emboldened by the many triumphs of machine learning. Like today, finance in the 1990s and early 2000s attracted many of the sharpest quantitative minds, who produced remarkable theoretical and methodological advances.

Crisis 9

Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S. In a recent Gallup poll , the pharmaceutical industry was the most widely disliked private industry, ranking even lower than lawyers.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. This is a dangerous mindset.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The investment industry is changing. These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. This is not just case-by-case evidence.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Although many industries were sex-segregated, women in those countries were more likely than their counterparts in capitalist societies to be in the paid workforce, in part because of policies like state-supported child care. Grant Thornton’s data also shows how much variation there is among industries. Methodology.

Execution 9

Execution Company Chief Executive Officer Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Every industry is built around some traditional assumptions, behaviors, and beliefs about how to create value (whether that means revenues, profits, or investor returns). In most industries, the core beliefs are unassailable cannon—until the day that a venture-backed startup comes along to upend them.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments. cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. Plus, I argued, other clean energy industry measures like clean energy M&A, job growth, and deployment were trending in the right direction.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. How it will impact business, industry, and society. Insight Center. The Age of AI. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 11

Company Survey Finance Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S.,

Organization 9

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

Incubator 9

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. Startups, on the other hand, aren’t debt financed, because they’re too risky and unproven, and have no assets—not so appealing to lenders.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. About the Interviews I wanted to select a diverse group of CEOs from a range of companies that varied by size and industry.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Industrial conglomerate. Barratt Developments. Procter & Gamble. Consumer Goods. Technology. Johnson & Johnson. Biotech & Pharma. Walt Disney. Prudential Financial. Automotive. Cisco Systems. Communication. British American Tobacco. Alibaba Group. Technology. Biotech & Pharma. HSBC Holdings. Wells Fargo. Consumer Goods.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. And like any industry, the ICO arena has had its fair share of outright scams, pump and dumps, and blatant Ponzi schemes. Distributed Database.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Now there was a plan in place.

Entrepreneur 11

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

One evening in February 2016, writer and filmmaker Ava DuVernay met with two top Disney executives about the possibility of directing an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. She had already developed a reputation for taking on daunting projects, and she knew these two executives admired her work.

Film 12

Film Engineering Budgeting Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. While the industry is growing rapidly, it is also highly volatile. Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Mission-oriented thinking could also be used to develop technology roadmaps for the 17 sustainable development goals. This includes basic research, applied research, and downstream patient and strategic long-term finance to companies. billion in public support.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. The company’s CFO asked a crowd of the company’s most accomplished finance leaders to raise their hand if they had attended an Ivy League school.

Power 10

Power Management Diversity CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Both industrialized nations (including the UK, Singapore, and Australia) and developing states (such as China, Nigeria, and Chile) have instituted national real-time payment systems to match the speed of business. The variable in the equation is whether the approach is industry led, or guided by government regulators.

System 8

System Industry Report Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. sanctions, which were initially enacted in 1979 and strengthened in subsequent years, resulted in many U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

The 2016 U.S. We have developed a framework to help boards make decisions concerning corporate political spending — decisions that are informed; consistent with company strategies, policies, and values; and that mitigate risks as much as possible. Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. million to the U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries. For more on our methods, see the sidebars below.) The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point. With all of the changes and uncertainty, companies in a wide range of industries – from autos and chemicals to electronics and appliances – are moving quickly to rethink supply chains and make them more resilient. CY TOP has not been able to find U.S.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth. He wanted out.

Media 8

Media Hammer Software Company 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Globally, these are industries where the state is often the sole or dominant customer.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

So we decided to develop a new elective MBA course called “Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry.” Andy not only helped develop case studies and teach them but also made conceptual contributions. His 1996 book, Only the Paranoid Survive , became a best-seller. Here is the last one that helped me.

EVA 8

EVA Case Study Class Gordon 8