Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The business models of universities are being challenged, and it looks like the universities are out to lunch.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

As The Economist recently observed : “More than 90 groups of scientists are now developing hypothesis-generation software. Automating hypotheses that will excite marketers and financiers as well as engineers and designers will be as much a computational art as a software science. The odds are, it won’t.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Hedge Funds will love our data — they will practically buy any set of data that might give them a potential edge”. These are just a sample of thoughts from clients in recent months who were excited about the prospect of creating new businesses and new sources of revenue in what seems to be a lucrative new area.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Wall Street investment banks and hedge fund activists, some of whom began targeting McDonald’s a decade ago , also gain from the temporary boosts that buybacks produce. For the other four highest-paid McDonald’s executives named in the company’s proxy statements, average total compensation ranged from a low of $1.5

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In our view, while the proposal to ban dual-class shares raises important issues, its implementation would do more harm than good, given the challenges from the digital revolution and the growing imperative for established firms to transform their business models. So do some older, family-controlled firms, such as Ford Motor Co.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. While businesses shouldn't react to economic uncertainty in knee-jerk fashion, the recent tumble in equity prices cannot be ignored. As it looked like the economic storm clouds were dissipating (ah, the good old days.)

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

We’ve already seen that it’s possible to use external data to evaluate firms on what business models they are employing, and what those business models mean for their valuations. Active investors such as hedge funds seek to outperform the market and index providers.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

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. Heins needs to pay attention up front to defining the challenges carefully.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

They acquire huge customer bases and receive staggering market valuations while employing a relatively small number of people. Their business models are fluid. To achieve the curvature of a perfect circle while minimizing landfill use, the project developed its own concrete plant. It is not a hedge.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In malleable environments, such as in newly created or disrupted markets, they will need to envision and realize new possibilities. In environments that are both malleable and unpredictable, businesses will have to orchestrate the activities of entire ecosystems of companies using platform-based business models.

Strategy 10

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. The social impact funds want to support it for social reasons, whereas hedge funds and others are recognizing that the superior resiliency and performance of worker-owned firms can improve their returns. Already, U.S.

ESOP 12

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. To be sure, blockchain may enable incumbents such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse, all of which are currently investing in the technology, to do more with less, streamline their businesses, and reduce risk in the process.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? We think there's more to business success — and that something as straightforward as a simple equation could put capitalism on a better path. When ROE holds sway, a more or less certain return on a cost-reduction investment nearly always trumps a speculative bet on a new business model.

ROE 13

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 13