Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

New business models can hurt a company’s existing businesses; however, if they work, they can enhance overall performance. These new entrants often bring new business models, and thus measure performance differently than incumbents. Against which metrics are they building their businesses?

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Over the last five years there has been a substantial increase in the number of leading business schools offering courses to meet this demand. Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Many IT organizations, having achieved this original mission, now are turning to the next thing, which is innovation. Enter data and analytics, which provide an opportunity for such innovation. The company set up a stand-alone, centrally funded data and analytics business service unit. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Their failure is usually an inability to truly embrace the new business models the disruptive change opens up. Where they failed was in realizing that online photo sharing was the new business, not just a way to expand the printing business. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

DuPont was forced to dissolve its patent-pooling arrangements with foreign chemical firms and disgorge its cross-holdings in GM stock, devastating both its top and bottom lines. Business law Regulation Disruptive innovation Growth strategy Transportation'

Reputation 8

Reputation Disruptive Innovation Letter Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Business leaders must pay attention to the risks and interdependencies that these twin challenges present.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Traditional business models aim to create value for shareholders, often at the expense of other stakeholders. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

At least, that’s how the story is often told today, and that telling meshes with how people see innovation: a single, simple observation, a flash of brilliance, and — eureka! Take a look at any significant innovation, and the myth of the lone genius and the “eureka moment” breaks down. The truth is messier.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. Business models. In 1944, the bed strangled him. “That’s very, very important.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

But the truth is that the really successful companies are highly focused, achieving unprecedented efficiencies by designing a business model with a razor-thin focus and learning to do the one thing really well. Which raises some interesting questions: why don't we see more of these firms in other countries?

Succession 8

Succession Simon Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The larger trend here is the continued growth of "open" — open data and open innovation, including new value-chain business partnerships and cattle-call contests inviting in any and all ideas. Perhaps the most heartening business story of the year came from perennial thought (and action) leader, Patagonia.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. I don’t think so.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

” Peter was amused to see Emanuel struggle with the description of his sophisticated research instruments as “machines” and his vast array of chemical and biological consumables as analogous to disposable razor blades. Strategy Business models' ” “And also created a moral hazard,” Peter said.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 10

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. The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). It’s hard out there if you’re a utility.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13