Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. trillion in 2016. Figures for 2016 forecast a surplus of $25 billion. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. With just 2.6

Marketing 10

Marketing Decentralization Policies GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

With the 2016 U.S. presidential election season upon us, what political issues most concern business leaders? Aside from these three broad worries, directors are also anxious about corporate tax rates, political instability, and healthcare costs. boards made up 48% of the sample) responded to the survey.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 9, 2016

or your organization; It’s not the strength of your relationship or who you ‘know’; It’s not the market, your competition, your return potential or your marketing materials. Sadly, as an outsider, you have no access to their hidden or historic arrangements or political mind-fields. And then the problem with marketing materials.

Succession 50

Succession Content Marketing Benchmarking 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 15, 2016

While politeness is a stereotype that doesn’t personally cause me much grief, it’s important to remember that many stereotypes are actually quite dangerous—even the ones that seem harmless. Pulling this off required matrix management across IS, marketing, customer service, product management, and product development.

USP 50

USP Diversity Learning-by-Doing Definition 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Focusing on understanding and biasing material toward Marketing Mary’s ‘needs’ is specious: we’re outsiders and can never understand the unique composition of anyone else’s culture that has created, and maintains, the ‘need’ and would have to change to bring in something new. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Consensus 50

Consensus Price Content Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

My Beliefs inform my politics, my choice of city, my choice of friends; they are hard-wired, and make me me. Sales and marketing folks, managers, trainers, coaches, leaders – any profession that focuses on offering advice or promoting action – must stop trying to ‘pitch’ even if someone needs to hear it. All rights reserved.

Influence 50

Influence Management System Proposal 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Saudi Arabia’s government reshuffle in early May is more than a political watershed. In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. The timing for these reforms is no accident.

Politics 8

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Saudi Arabia in particular is not only a major player on oil markets and within OPEC, but also the region’s largest economy that shares its vulnerability to sliding global oil prices with its smaller GCC neighbours. of GDP in 2015 and 2016. After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% in 2015 and 3.2%

GDP 8

GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher. It assesses SSA markets’ socioeconomic fundamentals and internal strength by looking at measures of political stability, trade exposure, economic diversification, wealth, and productivity.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Partisans from both sides of the aisle believe it transformed presidential politics. I was particularly impressed by how rigorously and relentlessly the analytics teams modeled their "markets," i.e., the voters and electorate. All these near-real-time "market" data helped determine resource allocation. They're right.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. ” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 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. As expected, Calgary’s city council voted overwhelmingly against Uber in February 2016, forcing the firm to leave the city temporarily. Partner organizations. In the U.S.,

Licensing 8

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Did India just pull off a monetary and political miracle? The original reason given for the drastic demonetization action was to expose the so-called “black” market, fueled by money that is illegally gained and undeclared for tax purposes. Consider the sequence of events in its demonetization saga.

Banking 9

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 9

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

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

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 9

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 9

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. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity. These figures compare with a rate of 2.5

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

According to an October 2016 Pew poll , only about half of Americans believe that climate change is due to human activity. But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Aggregate Demand Incentives Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Stock market booms primarily boost the wealth at the top of the wealth distribution where portfolios are dominated by listed and unlisted business equity, thereby, increasing wealth inequality. The existence of these different portfolios means that wealth inequality is essentially a race between the housing market and the stock market.

Crisis 8

Crisis Real Estate Class Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Moreover, a March 2016 deal between the EU and Turkey closed the EU’s borders to many refugees and consigned Turkey to the task of handling millions of displaced Syrians on its own. Raiding a workshop in 2016, police seized thousands of fake life jackets that were to be sold to refugees attempting to ply the illegal sea route to Greece.

Long-term 8

Long-term Safe Harbor Planning Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

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. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. 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 also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S. Is there just one?

Planning 8

Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 It is true that Kalanick consistently called China the most important market for Uber. Uber truly wanted to succeed in its fastest-growing market, one where taxi drivers outnumber their U.S. trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

For example, Jason Furman and Peter Orszag, both former economic advisers to President Obama, wrote an influential 2016 paper that argued that economic rents are on the rise, particularly since 2000, and were a central factor in increasing wage inequality observed during this period.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Construction Industry Productivity 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

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. So, to go even further, companies need to also consider who they support for political office.

Efficiency 10

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 10

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

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

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

MAY 1, 2017

In fact, according to a 2016 survey by Accenture, only 14% of U.S. And at some startups, “lack of structure” would be a polite way to put it; a more accurate description would be “total chaos.” You do the hiring, the marketing, the strategic planning, the social media – everything.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Career Benchmarking Environment 11

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.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Yes, there are reasons for concern, both technical and political. Automation anxiety is made more acute by a labor market that has tilted against workers over the last 30 years, with increasing income inequality and stagnant real wages. The solutions, and any obstacles, are political, not economic or technical. Insight Center.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can generate political capital with government regulators, who may then grant the company greater freedom of movement. So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. It’s not for every company.

Execution 10

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

per year from 2011 to 2016, compared to 3% from 1996 to 2005, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This has led to subpar economic growth and stagnant wages, with momentous social and political repercussions not only in the U.S. In the United States productivity growth averaged just 0.5% but also in most of the developed world.

Video 10

Video Technology Education Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

France plans to impose a 20 percent quota by 2012 and double it to 40 percent by 2016 for the country's 2,500 largest companies. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, however, across boardrooms and executive suites and along the corridors of political power, women's progress is stagnating. As of 2010, women held just 15.7

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15