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. What about the automation of the production line? bribes and kickbacks). Just 6% are using AI in pricing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. and 2.2%, respectively.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The country’s urbanized and large middle class has maintained a strong preference for foreign-made products despite restrictions due to U.S. and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. For non-U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Her lab had discovered new ways to convert carbon emissions into useful products, and they believed the technology had enormous commercial potential. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). Payments for the vehicles were then deducted from pay, leaving little in compensation for the workers.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Both the FFM and the SBMs have had to overcome major operational hurdles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Shared (often aggregated) corporate data can be used to create intelligence products such as tools, dashboards, reports, apps, and other technical devices to support public or humanitarian objectives. Public service design and delivery. Finally, data collaboratives can aid in monitoring, evaluation, and improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This frugal solution is built around affordable and easy-to-use medical devices that can be operated by nurses in rural clinics. After paying for a full year, the system is unlocked and the customer owns the product outright. Yet, over 5 billion people worldwide don’t have internet access.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2016

Transforming a sales organization to consistently deliver insights requires new value propositions, case studies and collateral from Marketing, new competencies, skill development, recruiting profiles from HR, and alignment with Operations to refine products and services. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One is profits — cryptocurrency investors made some massive returns in 2016, with cryptocurrencies from Blockchain startups Monero and NEM both seeing 2,000% increases in value. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In 2016 the Scottish National Health Service (NHS Scotland) piloted an approach to value improvement that took both cost and quality into account and turned the management of value into the basic task of the point-of-care manager. Value ceased to be a side initiative or something driven solely by top-level finance and executive leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Firms guilty of this oversight never get past the idea that they sell products when they could be building ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Their revenues grew by over 100% in 2016. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Here’s a quick one-question quiz: What is the most important requirement for a successful product launch? A great product. A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). And that means marginal products can outsell superior ones — just look at Microsoft vs. Apple. A great distribution plan to sell it.

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Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In the start-up world, the disruptor is the cool kid on the block, the one who’ll change the world — or at least the products you’ll buy and how you buy them. A new product or technology sells better to all stakeholders if people can be persuaded that it will disrupt the status quo. Gina Pricope/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 9

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. Nabob survived near-bankruptcy in the ’70s by making the tough decision to streamline its business and become a specialist (versus the generalist it was originally set up to be, once carrying a myriad of product lines from coffee to jams to spices).

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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. But in April, just after U.S. Who gets H-1Bs?

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. In other words, who you are affects how you behave and how you interact with other people, so team members’ personalities operate like the different functions of a single organism. Consider the crew that will one day (soon?)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

This regulation came as a result of concerns that the exploitation and trade of conflict minerals by armed groups was helping to finance conflict in the DRC region and contributing to its emergency humanitarian crisis. Firms could also admit that their products contained DRC conflict minerals, but thus far none have done so.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 2016 the California exchange saw a modest 4% increase in premiums. Instead of selecting the health plans offered on these exchanges, they take all comers, and do not require insurers to improve health plans to get their products onto the exchanges. But a study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that about 2.5

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