Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The crisis in Venezuela has been escalating over the last few years as product shortages, social unrest, and political clashes have grown more severe. Part of the decline can be explained by the sharp depreciation of the bolivar, but for the most part it reflects proactive decisions by multinationals to exit the market.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8

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. The petition was seen as instrumental in getting the city council to adopt new regulations which permitted Uber to operate legally. Partner organizations. In the U.S.,

Licensing 9

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Critics across the political spectrum have said that fake news and cyberattacks played a big role in determining the course of events. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 10

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Political analysts use polls in order to estimate the likelihood of a candidate’s success. To overcome these obstacles, political statisticians build models that try to correct polling errors by using data from previous elections. Consider a company with a successful operation in the U.S. In the example of the U.S.

Politics 10

Politics Trends How To Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 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

MARCH 27, 2018

voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits. political system, including the 2016 U.S. The velocity in acquiring and exploiting this personal data can help these companies obtain significant market power.

Company 10

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

°F) — a level that seemed politically feasible, but still leads to vast damage, including the death of all coral; even more deadly storms and heat; and rising oceans covering low-lying island nations and major coastal areas. Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations. °C (3.8°F) auto industry.

Efficiency 11

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. It is true that Kalanick consistently called China the most important market for Uber. counterparts tenfold.

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. This group should represent a variety functions within the organization exposed to Brexit: supply chain, channel managers, procurement, marketing, sales, public affairs, governance, and financial controlling, among others. How to Plan for Brexit.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. Digital transformation forces wholesale change to the foundations of an enterprise — from its operating model to its infrastructure, what it sells, and to whom and how.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

But certain types of decisions — particularly those related to strategy, innovation and marketing — will likely continue to require a human being who can take a holistic view and make a qualitative judgment based on a personal consideration of the context and facts. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Tools Marketing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When we reach its second and subsequent chapters, political uncertainty is likely to return and affect the financial, institutional, and real economies. The Canadian dollar, for example, depreciated 25% between 2013 and 2016, yet Canada’s trade balance remained virtually unchanged. Brexit is a process, not an event.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. This becomes particularly important in the context of cyber-crime and the alarming rise of business models being held for ransom or political gain.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Then the story turned political, as President Trump lashed out at GM while some observers framed the news as a blow to the president’s promises to bring jobs back to the U.S. ” In that vein, last week’s layoffs surely were a response to changing near-term market conditions.

Industry 8

Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

Company 9

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

This week, Facebook took advantage of this asset for political purposes. Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Much of Wall Street’s back office operations involve the performance of relatively structured tasks. Kensho, for example, is a startup that analyzes data on markets and generates reports on their implications. But the presidential election of 2016 might provide some clues.

Compliance 8

Compliance Finance Banking Advice 8

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 9

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2016, it was estimated that 67% of well-formulated strategies failed due to poor execution. In a global food company I worked with, the new head of marketing announced that 40% of the coming year’s revenue would be generated from new product launches. Imagno/Getty Images. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Budgeting Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. Emerging markets are often overlooked in these conversations, and they bring up a host of different issues. Facebook, for its part, is taking steps to ensure that 1.5 privacy laws.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41 percent in terms of return on equity and by 56 percent in terms of operating results. As of 2010, women held just 15.7 But should the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

A 2015 report by the International Labour Organization covering more than 180 countries and over 84% of the global workforce warned of “widespread job insecurity in the global labor market,” finding that only one-quarter of the world’s workers have a stable employment relationship.

Survey 9

Survey Report Video Influence 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Traditionally, it has been government’s role to provide equality of opportunity (particularly through education), an effective safety net, and social, political, and economic stability. These are the seven areas: 1. Shape the next wave of globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. Old ways of doing things are replaced by better ones.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

” This is what the back end of AI looks like in 2016. We call this ever-moving frontier of AI’s development, the paradox of automation’s last mile : as AI makes progress, it also results in the rapid creation and destruction of temporary labor markets for new types of humans-in-the-loop tasks.

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Brexit, as the British referendum to exit the EU is widely called, has caused turmoil in politics and stocks and head-shaking among the UK’s partners. ” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer survey, of more than 33,000 people around the world, only 27% of leaders were seen as behaving in open and transparent ways. ” While truth telling is critical in any organization, larger organizations are perceived as more political and therefore less safe to be honest in.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.” At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. in the U.S., but our exports may decline.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8