The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

For instance, in his 2021 “Dear CEO” letter , Blackrock chief Larry Fink wrote that no issue is more important than climate change. The book highlights how Swedish organizations have come to lead the way in terms of corporate sustainability, and includes findings and analysis from dozens of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.

Shaw 102

Shaw Chief Executive Officer Letter Survey 102

LDRLB

DECEMBER 21, 2012

The CEO of IBM believes in using research to “get ahead of the obvious.” In his words, “I don’t bore myself with market research” because “all they do is use the past to predict the future.” Strategists can choose to create new markets rather than just getting to the top of the one they are in.

Strategy 153

Strategy Ethics Transportation Consultative 153

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Transporting the letter to the nearest FedEx location in time to ensure the date on the letter is reasonable. Just as I set up my account and answered all their questions, I lost the whole thing three times. If that doesn’t frustrate you, I don’t know what will. Getting the letter in an envelope. What to put outside? A Post-It?

Letter 201

Letter Succession Licensing Ethics 201

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Bathasar Gracian, writes about the need to transport ourselves, if necessary, for some people are ignored in one city but are considered a prodigy in yet another city. The lesson for me is that one can, so to speak, play one mean fiddle, but if one is in the wrong place at the wrong time, it won’t be appreciated by anyone.

Licensing 376

Licensing Ethics Transportation Executive Coaching 376

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 1, 2013

Visit the airport in Beijing and ride the train that transports passengers from terminal to terminal. Realize it or not, we have an unprecedented ability to create new products, new services, new markets, and new careers — provided we exercise the futureview it takes to see them. If we don’t, they will remain invisible.

Armstrong 182

Armstrong Engineering Transportation Technology 182

The Idolbuster

MAY 11, 2012

On May 3, 2012, a dissident investor accused Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson of falsifying his resume on the company web site and in financial disclosures by claiming a computer science degree that he didn’t earn. The CEO sets the moral tone of a company, and you cannot have someone lying about their resume at the head. Thompson has to go.

CEO 48

CEO Letter PR Ethics 48

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

In case you haven't heard of Elon Musk, he's a cofounder of PayPal , the CEO of Tesla Motors and the CEO of SpaceX.   After all, what's the market for six figure sports cars?    From what I've read lately, Musk has had a pretty good year.   Very sweet. 

Executive Coaching 141

Executive Coaching Blog Letter Execution 141

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

By the way, I totally understand about public transportation (I use it too) — but this post focuses solely on car commuting. My average commute (one-way, without traffic) is one hour — so I feel that I have a good handle on what the typical commuter endures every day. Why not work from home? Not every day. Unported License.

Brainstorming 248

Brainstorming Licensing Download Ethics 248

Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

VR offers a powerful sense of immersion, making you feel like you are transported to another place. A colleague of mine, former Intel CEO, Craig Barrett, told me back in 2008 that the best way to weather a recession is to invest your way out of it. A new reality. No company ever saves their way out of a recession.

Technology 100

Technology Innovation Supply Chain Company 100

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009.

Press Release 100

Press Release Motivation Discount PR 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker. they earn 129 times more ; the High Pay Centre marked “Fat Cat Wednesday” (January 4, 2017) as the day by when a CEO has already earned more than an average worker earns in the entire year. CEOs Get Paid Too Much. A CEO’s actions are scalable.

CEO 9

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S.

Loyalty 14

Loyalty Marketing Apparel Maslow 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Within marketing, for example, some tasks can be automated easily, but others cannot. These activities are most prevalent in sectors such as manufacturing, food services, transportation and warehousing, and retail. trillion of wages in the U.S. More occupations will change than will be automated in the short to medium term.

CEO 8

CEO Technology Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite. We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2017

” Founder and CEO of Trov Scott Walchek said that “ this partnership highlights the convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance. All of those folks are going to market with some new form of mobility that did not exist,” said Ian Sweeney, the general manager of Trov Mobility.

Insurance 8

Insurance Transportation Licensing Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Executives, especially CEOs, need something better. Will the CEO allow you to work in these arenas for a short time? You can read books about HR and marketing, but getting your head in and hands on the finances and operations will pay huge premiums later on. You’ll need this sort of groundwork for upward mobility.

Execution 62

Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Erratic capital markets, systemic risk, tax policy, and regulatory uncertainty have all been offered as culprits, and all play their parts. Why are CEOs having just as much trouble finding talent now as they did in tighter job markets? Why aren't U.S. businesses leading the global economy to recovery? Already, 75% of the U.S.

Retail 16

Retail Competitive Advantage CEO Banking 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel.

Airlines 14

Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. Take transport. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. As the barrier dissolves between political and commercial power structures, the book raises questions about large multinationals whose budgets are bigger than small countries’ and CEOs who have growing roles as statespeople.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

” When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market. General Motors had 20%.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Earlier this year, Tesla shareholders approved what is likely the largest compensation package ever awarded to a CEO — for a CEO who clearly doesn’t need the money. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value. CSA-Archive/Getty Images.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

Chief Technology Officer 12

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. If we see a country where reward outweighs the risk, we want to invest,” CEO Jeff Immelt says in Success in Africa. I recently spent some time with Bob Diamond, the former CEO of Barclays.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

A leading mobile-phone maker falls out of step with its market — and struggles to catch up. The board of an airline hires a CEO — and then cancels his contract after just three years. But when the smartphone became the next big thing within the mobility market, the company lost its competitive edge.

Company 16

Company Airlines Offshoring PR 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Last year’s WEF Summit on the Global Agenda saw multinational CEOs, academics, and consultants alike preaching the need for business to adapt to the on-demand economy. When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing.

Transportation 8

Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 Conspicuously absent from the photo was Uber’s CEO , Travis Kalanick. On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. counterparts tenfold.

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. New technologies, combined with business model innovation, provide the structural cost advantage necessary to take large chunks of the market over time. Instead, it was a byproduct.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large.

Airlines 10

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. During this period, climate change became a central issue in political and economic debate, leading to a range of regulatory, market, and physical risks and opportunities. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. Sunny Verghese, the company’s CEO and cofounder, directly involves himself in all promotions of his top 800 employees, each of whom he knows by name and has an opinion about.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Almost every industry is already being affected, from agriculture to transportation. And unlike with the internet, where latecomers often bested those who were first to market, the companies that get started immediately with machine intelligence could enjoy a lasting advantage. Make Talent More Productive.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Nestlé announced plans to cut its staff in some central African countries, while Barclays’s new CEO is considering selling off the bank’s Africa assets. Businesses will have to adapt to withstand slower and more variable growth across SSA.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Second, Vanguard tested the waters before diving in.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s. The Union Market challenge.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

But there is a third choice: You can buy an existing business, right now, and run it as CEO. For example, in 2015, Jennifer Braus bought Systems Design West, which serves hundreds of municipal firehouses in the Pacific Northwest by handling billing to insurance companies for their emergency ambulance transports.

Company 8

Company Transportation System Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

While Facebook is still working diligently on mobile applications, CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to hint that the acquisition places the company on the cutting edge for the next pervasive platform: virtual reality. Virtual reality is not a disruption to the computing market, instead it stands poised to disrupt content consumption.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8