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. Even simple-seeming tasks, such as browsing or buying, often involve several steps, each touching a different part of the business. “If

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

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? A very few can ruin it for the many unless all operate within certain minimum civil bounds.

Brand 14

Brand Video Technology Tools 14

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 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

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

Skip Prichard

APRIL 7, 2024

“Companies that dive into the Metaverse are going to find themselves with a serious edge—they’ll be more innovative, able to operate more efficiently, and attract the best talent from all over the globe.” Can you share examples of organizations that have successfully integrated Metaverse elements into their operations?

Bond 80

Bond Innovation Diversity Operations 80

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. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 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. The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications.

Participative 15

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

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? Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. What makes one business model more attractive than another?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. 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.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

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.

Blog 305

Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 305

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.

Crisis 8

Crisis Report 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