Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. Pure content providers , which capture new or novel data, or data that simply had not been captured before, and build a business around it. Uber is another example.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. stock exchanges.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Capital raising strategies.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

On the face of it, that seems to be two entirely different markets, with Facebook at Work playing in the workplace productivity market (competing with the likes of Microsoft Office, Webex , and project management software) while LinkedIn is part of the headhunting industry. Making Money with Digital Business Models.

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Human Resources Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Insight center.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But the CMO Council reports that “only 14 percent of marketers say that customer centricity is a hallmark of their companies, and only 11 percent believe their customers would agree with that characterization.” Others lack the processes and operational capabilities to target them with personalized communications and experiences.

Short-term 12

Short-term Learning-by-Doing Participative Human Resources 12

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

One of the biggest obstacles is that traditional functional departments often can’t meet the needs of IoT business models and have to evolve. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. Human resources.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. In April’s Harvard Business Review , we offer a menu of options for concerned incumbents. So how might a hotel operator respond to the rise of Airbnb? Uber reliably provides cheaper and more convenient rides.

Hotels 8

Hotels Price Tactics Operations 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. Companies are right to be worried.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Executive teams need to assess their industries’ and companies’ time horizons for the technology, because they will have a huge amount of strategic and business process planning to do before their companies adopt it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Business leaders striving to stand out from the competition need to reinvent their business model to marry digital and human experiences in the best way possible. Reallocate advertising and marketing dollars to customer experience. Traditional branding is an old paradigm.

Company 71

Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 71

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The market panicked. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. Those declines reflect changes in strategies and the basic business model of investment banks, post-crisis.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. 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.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

For them, sustainability is a thing to tackle, a functional area; it's a what , like marketing or product development. It's a way of operating that creates the most value when it's embedded throughout the organization. And these issues require a full-court press from all aspects of operations.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. The new business model has yet to solidify, and the leaders have yet to emerge. Life science company executives need to be thinking about what business they want to be in. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers; it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering; and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 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 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Our study also helped pinpoint the reasons why companies have found it challenging to be able to hear the message that lean and unstable scheduling is not the best business model. We hope not.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8