Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

A 2016 study estimated that there are more than 53,300 professional coaches worldwide, and the British paper The Independent pegged the number of management consultants at 500,000. ” Prepare your marketing. . ” Prepare your marketing. Of course, competition for these plum positions is growing. Do a skills analysis.

Consultative 8

Consultative How To Career Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. position. million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The number of PhDs in science and engineering graduating each year has grown dramatically and is now just behind that of the United States. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. ” But what’s the effect?

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). A well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy. As for distribution, “smart marketing” can turn faulty launch distribution planning into buzz-worthy spin and drive more sales. Go-To Market Strategy is, in essence, the launch. A great product. All of the above.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Ten years on from the financial crisis, stock markets are regularly reaching new highs and volatility levels new lows. First, there are many unsettling parallels between the recent advances in machine learning and algorithmic trading and the explosive growth of financial engineering prior to the crisis. in November 2016.

Crisis 10

Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point. A shift toward protectionism.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9