Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. In comparison, the U.S., The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S. Translators were employed for cross-border communications.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. Uber has beefed up safety and background checks.

CEO 8

CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

First, they provided ratings — there is nothing like a number to invite comparisons. Google has acquired travel resources (notably ITA Software), but companies like Tripadvisor, Kayak, and their kin are doing things in presenting information that Google does not. It is hard work. Where is it all this going?

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Review Comparison Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg’s “platform” reference has elicited many comparisons of Oculus to Google’s purchase of Android , the company that would provide Google with its own smartphone operating system. It has the potential to begin disrupting the travel and entertainment markets and become a pillar of the high-end gaming industry.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

For example, traveling to a new country may be exciting, but it is also stressful. When Apple first introduced the desktop operating system to the public with the Macintosh , they strictly enforced the look-and-feel of programs to ensure that users would feel comfortable with each new program. People like familiarity.

Retail 14

Retail Film Comparison Productivity 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

She also uses her smartphone to do a quick price comparison, and scans the QR code to get additional product information. These data rarely exist in one place in the organization so you'll need to pull in people from multiple functions such as marketing, sales, in-store operations, IT, and beyond. Fill in the data holes.

Retail 11

Retail Loyalty Customer Loyalty ROI 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

.” Specific technical skills are getting increasingly easy to measure, so employers focus instead on assessing whether a candidate understands the context in which the business is operating, will be highly motivated on the job, and will get along with the rest of the team.

Software 8

Software Engineering Incentives CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. Operating outside the established processes will undermine the team’s cohesion. In the U.S.

Company 8

Company Document Travel Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

For a little bit of context, I’d recommend traveling back in time 50 years and looking at an entirely orthogonal industry: shipping. Individuals will buy Apple products regardless of feature comparisons. All of this despite the fact that the technical change itself was quite “small.” Apple is a perfect example.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In comparison to larger firms, small businesses are less well equipped to efficiently navigate the loan process  in economic parlance, their search costs are higher. In fact, we may be seeing a technology disruption in small business lending along the lines of what weve seen over the last few decades in industries like travel and media.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

It’s harder when I travel, but I’m getting creative when I have to dine out, and I know what foods are good for me, and which ones I need to avoid. Lastly, I do not forget to take care of myself by exercising and traveling. This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. What is that!?” I could breathe.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

As the member travels around, the car's location is tracked via GPS. Zipcar is a great example of how you can create a new type of business, enhance a user experience, and find cost and operational efficiencies by cleverly employing these technologies. Let's look at each of them in more detail. Microprocessors.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In comparison, TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Then, 9/11 hit and the travel industry was decimated.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

For comparison, they hold around 0.6%–0.7% More broadly, many tech leaders have emphasized the contributions of high-skilled immigrants to the economy — and have spoken out against anti-immigrant actions like President Trump’s travel bans. jobs overall.) Is There a Shortage of Technical Skills in the U.S.?

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9