Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

Take Uber: at only eight years old, it’s already upended the business model of taxis. The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot.

Process 14

Process Strategy Benchmarking Storytelling 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

And how can companies benchmark themselves against competitors? The results show uneven progress: The technology sector comes out on top — no surprise there. They are more likely to use software to manage their back-office operations and customer relationships. But what are the key attributes of a digital leader?

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). The heads of the arrows between the network elements signify the direction of relationships.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The Center for Orthopedic Research and Education (or CORE Institute ) — a group of musculoskeletal, neurologic, and rehabilitative physicians in Arizona and Michigan that includes orthopedic, spine, and pain-management physicians and a number of other types of clinicians — is pioneering an approach that represents a middle ground.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Health Care Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

Leadership 8

Leadership Short-term Agility Emotional Intelligence 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. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Identifying a clear destination Big companies often hate to make choices.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The aim is to ensure that all future products become part of a circular economy in which, drawing from the emerging discipline of biomimicry, all raw materials are recovered either as biological or technological nutrients to be fed back into the industrial process. This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance.

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Bottom-up Industry Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The team is more important than the idea, the business model, and funding. How technology is changing the way we work. For example, if atmosphere within the team is important to the candidate, let her know what great people you have managed to hire already and how excited you are about how well they will all mesh.

Company 8

Company Benchmarking Storytelling Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. Insight Center. Now the hard work begins.

Crisis 8

Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers. Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies. But it's also not yet clear that Facebook is the next Google; it doesn't have massive tailwinds propelling its business model.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The aim is to ensure that all future products become part of a circular economy in which, drawing from the emerging discipline of biomimicry, all raw materials are recovered either as biological or technological nutrients to be fed back into the industrial process. This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Bottom-up Industry Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Times are tough for many businesses, yet some are holding their own, even thriving. And what are the benchmarks of success?

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9