Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In a recent Goldman Sachs research report about the promise of gene therapies, analysts asked a question that gets to the heart of a growing dilemma for the healthcare sector: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” New business models. Annuity-based models. Something has got to give.

Business Model 10

Business Model Insurance Bond Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

In olden times, the bond raters at S&P and Moody's were financial advice providers, sort of like Morningstar is today. Starting in the 1970s, though, the business model shifted. The United States and Moody's Bond Rating Service." But what job is that, exactly? So far, since S&P's decision, the price of U.S.

Credit Rating 13

Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

At their best, asset managers and wealth managers should aspire to follow the model and example set by other professions (such as doctors and lawyers), a key tenet of which is putting the interests of one's clients (or patients) ahead of one's own in as conflict-free a relationship as possible. Strive for a conflict-free business model.

Ethics 13

Ethics Rogers Asset Management Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

At Uber, the idea for the business has been portrayed as this stroke of ingenuity, but I learned it was actually inspired by a product placement in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. So much of the risks and challenges facing these companies involved whether their business models were legal.

CEO 8

CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Their expectation was to spend about a day a week for the next six months on the identification, design, and testing of a business model innovation. NYPL librarians had long suspected that in-house use was substantial, but the magnitude was surprising and something for which the library’s business model had never accounted.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

The Morgan Stanley system can offer those if the client prefers them, but can also present individual stocks or bonds based on the firm’s research. Neither Morgan Stanley’s business model nor its culture would fit well with an entirely machine-based solution for wealth management that provided no human support.

System 8

System Short-term Industry Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The third innovation was called the “smart contract,” embodied in a second-generation blockchain system called ethereum, which built little computer programs directly into blockchain that allowed financial instruments, like loans or bonds, to be represented, rather than only the cash-like tokens of the bitcoin.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The other extreme is, “I have no intentions but look I’ve created jobs, ex post ,” and that is the post-rationalization of an economics-only business model. To us, the key about intentionality is that it must focus on a business model, a business plan upfront, with both economic and social impact.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. ’ ” The losers.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

As more is communicated, more emotions shared, more passions pursued in this much more vivid medium, we're likely to see stronger bonds between brands, consumers, networks and causes. So business is welcoming this, right? In fact their business model relies on its reputation engine.

Brand 14

Brand Video Technology Tools 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Some of the San Francisco-based groups, for example, bonded via discussions about the Golden State Warriors basketball team and opportunities to be more active in the city. This group dynamic cultivates a social network that offers real-time feedback, support, and accountability.

Health Care 12

Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

This will put pressure on financial institutions to better manage nonfinancial ESG performance through innovation in new products, processes, and business models that will enable them to do this and improve on financial performance at the same time.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. You achieve excellence not through James Bond–style gadgetry but through relentlessly executing on your fundamental skills. Good reporting takes time and relationships, so it can’t be effectively automated — though it can be empowered by digital technology.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Audience Content Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. Companies across the spectrum are grappling with change as new technologies, innovations, and customer behaviors disrupt old business models.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

As a result, some governments and private foundations have introduced social impact bonds to provide the necessary working capital. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too. Making PbR Work.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Skip Prichard

APRIL 7, 2024

“The Metaverse is all about promoting virtual collaboration, making sure there are plenty of opportunities for the team to bond and feel part of the community.” Well, it’s all about promoting virtual collaboration, making sure there are plenty of opportunities for the team to bond and feel part of the community.

Bond 80

Bond Innovation Diversity Operations 80

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There is mounting evidence that buybacks bear substantial blame for the extreme concentration of income at the very top and the disappearance of middle-class jobs in the United States over the past quarter century — a topic I discussed in a recent Harvard Business Review article. From 1986 through 1993, during the Sculley era, Apple spent $1.8

EPS 10

EPS Innovation Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models. This technology could eliminate expensive middlemen, and close loopholes that allow traders to game systems.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

One of the first books I read upon graduating college, Liar's Poker is acclaimed author Michael Lewis' first book — a captivating story about his short-lived postcollegiate career as a bond salesman in the 1980s. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Covey's book represents the best in self-help.

Books 21

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

One of the first books I read upon graduating college, Liar's Poker is acclaimed author Michael Lewis' first book — a captivating story about his short-lived postcollegiate career as a bond salesman in the 1980s. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Covey's book represents the best in self-help.

Books 17

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

And now, post-election, it was critical that the bonds be strengthened further. We modeled-in the geo-political assumptions, accounted for different connectivity scenarios and their socio-political ramifications as well as economic impact. There is a larger lesson here for today’s business leader. Context is, indeed, king.

Net Present Value 8

Net Present Value Analysis Politics Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

While social stuff is often associated with marketing or customer service, social can affect every part of the business model , including how we organize. McAfee formed a strong bond of commitment with the hundreds of unpaid technical experts in the larger marketplace who know (and like) McAfee's platform of solutions.

Participative 15

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The project—Park 007—was a James Bond–themed amusement park with artificial ski slopes, cliffs for bungee jumping, roller-coaster rides, indoor water sports, casinos, cinemas, and two five-star hotels. Rogier has too, which is why, frankly, his position on this stuns me.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Given that some of these problems are rooted in people’s tendency to resist change, do newer firms have an advantage when it comes to creating the best new business models? How does this perspective – jobs to be done – help firms create effective new business models? I don’t think so. Be prepared.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. In our research, we’re beginning to see signs that Wall Street is being threatened by similar forces. on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Distributed generation (meaning solar panels on my roof) is a direct threat to the business models of the large power plants that utilities know best. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. It’s hard out there if you’re a utility. utility sector. Tough choices.

Short-term 12

Short-term Chemicals Energy Report 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

To create a system that is more democratic, responsible, and fair, they run an accelerator program that supports new business models that could bring diversity to the financial system. Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above.

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When the marketplace began to see through the spin and the vapor, all the fun and games in the world couldn’t save a flawed business model…The fun was over and the culture ceased to exist. Many a company has put so much emphasis on culture that culture simply became their business as opposed to strengthening their business.

Strategy 366

Strategy Blog Brand Bottom-up 366

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

Over the coming months and years, it will become even less acceptable — to employees, customers, and investors — for business people to stick their heads in the increasingly hot sand on this issue. Business leaders who want to take action and show their investors and customers that they “get it” should step forward now.

Report 8

Report Crisis Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8