Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm. In our research , we first examined the drivers of firms’ investments in digital innovation and their subsequent market valuations. Simon McGill/Getty Images.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Consequently, if we want new medical innovations to be financially viable for the patients who need it most, health insurance markets need to be regulated to eliminate the perverse financial incentives that limit patients’ coverage. Insurance markets are failing to deliver. First, a little background.

Cost 8

Cost Insurance Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At the industry level they include (a) the extent of AI diffusion in economies; (b) the build-up of corporate profit; and (c) labor market dynamics. It took several decades for steam to drive the rollout of railways services and create a large market of exchanges in the United States. A race between firms.

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Because patients regularly change insurers, any individual insurer has less incentive to commit to investing in an expensive, high-value treatment if the return on investment could end up accruing to a competitor. Many high-value treatments take several years to yield significant health benefits.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

We needed to process reams of data using expensive and sophisticated software and computers to predict demand, know the capabilities of each aircraft type, and to understand each work group’s constraints. Rather, they focus on creating a market where people with cars can connect with people who need rides.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Initially, a startup has no business model and no market share to defend. But often the legal obstacles confronting startups have been put in place by companies that look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against new market entrants. Startups Can Do Anything. to stifle competition.). What Can a Company Do?

Company 8

Company Hotels Business Model Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

is quickly losing any limited advantages it may have had in this sector because it has failed to provide the right market signals to encourage deployment of clean-coal technology. But with other countries working hard to develop their own clean technologies, the U.S. could lose its edge quickly, both in innovation and deployment.

Energy 11

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

It is the only Chinese company that receives more sales revenue from markets outside China (67%) than from inside it. isn’t one of those markets. At the time, Zhengfei had no idea what a stock option system was – not being familiar at that time with the types of incentives systems developed in the West.

Case Study 8

Case Study ESOP Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In careers and the workplace, this means that credit or blame for performance is likely to be assigned to an individual more based on his or her perceived character, personality, intentions or efforts rather than on the situation, context, opportunities or constraints within which that individual is working. There is a better way.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Constraint Politics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

My research and the work of others suggest that targeted training programs, tax incentives, and steps to ease credit constraints could offset, at least partially, the financial cost of accommodating Syrian refugees, not to mention future social costs.

Long-term 10

Long-term Safe Harbor Planning Constraint 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

A D2C initiative can involve one platform or many, depending on things like image, objectives, target audience, and what’s feasible in a given market. Meanwhile, Subaru extends well-matched offerings at the right time in the consumer life cycle, from prepurchase targeting to end-of-lease management and loyalty incentives to repurchase.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process. Blockbuster capital raises will always occur in unusual situations (e.g., 3 Defenses of Large ICOs. The Downside to Large ICOs.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Corporate incentives and culture may be even more important in explaining what changed on Wall Street in recent years, and by placing too much emphasis on quantitative ratios like leverage, we may be missing some other important parts of the problem. But leverage ratios aren’t the only risk factors that matter.

Incentives 8

Incentives Banking Ethics IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The project team had spent the past six months designing a new strategy to accelerate growth in a critical emerging market for a multibillion-dollar multinational. You almost always can find money in someone''s budget, or find creative ways around financial constraints to progress a new idea.

Exit Strategy 8

Exit Strategy Document Short-term Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. A wave of public and private investment worldwide is going into making cities smarter — but that doesn’t change the fact that most municipal governments are working with serious spending constraints.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Pricing textbooks certainly all assume they do, or at least that they want to achieve a certain profit level under given constraints. Growth: A TV cable company offers special subscription plans for new customers, aiming to achieve a strong market position within 24 months. Doesn’t every business want to maximize its profits?

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. If you invest in human capital, whether in your company or in your country, sooner or later it will pay off if you have the right set of incentives.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

An "earn-your-way" strategy is sometimes necessary in markets with high uncertainty or when a company is cash-strapped. Over time too many salespeople are placed in geographies where salespeople were successful initially and too few are placed in other geographies where considerable market potential remains untapped.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Tackling maintenance backlogs, future-proofing infrastructure to cope with climate change, and meeting development goals such as access to clean water and all-weather roads to transport goods to markets would cost a great deal more. There is every incentive to be smarter about tackling our infrastructure problems.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. And they faced big constraints. Harness your internal sales data to show people that smart collaboration is not just a nice-to-have — it’s a strategic advantage for capturing market share.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

In a recent survey of 1,000 CEOs of large companies in 27 industries across 103 countries, only 32% believed that the global economy was on track to meet the sustainability needs created by a growing population and rising environmental and resource constraints.

Analysis 8

Analysis Licensing Globalization Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

But workday pressures and time constraints often get the better of us. “You need to set expectations around what’s most important and create an incentive to focus,” she says. “You need to set expectations around what’s most important and create an incentive to focus,” she says.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products How To Report 8

CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

Due to budget constraints, my predecessor had only traveled abroad to cover stories three times in the past year. Additionally, travels agents have contracts to support vendor partners that remove the incentive to find the best price or address comfort needs. What brought you to write this book?

Travel 98

Travel Books Airlines Budgeting 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

But the discipline and constraint of honing in on the four or five that matter most helps avoid the intellectual sloth, cognitive laziness and marketing lassitude that longer surveys effectively invite. Whenever I've worked with design teams collaborating with marketers, I've pushed hard for short vs. longer A/B questionnaire tests.

Survey 15

Survey Reputation Constraint Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Why do anti-profit beliefs persist in a market society? But these effects were limited.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

That gives an Amazon competitor the perfect opportunity to get a toehold in a market Amazon currently dominates. But Amazon’s analogies are grounded in physical stores, where floor space is a genuine constraint. With the right incentives, mainstream customers could do the same.

Airlines 9

Airlines Hotels Constraint Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Third most often cited (by 13 percent) was a lack of adequate incentives for pursuing entrepreneurial ideas. Provide financial and nonfinancial incentives for the entrepreneurial behaviors the company wants to see more of – not only for the ultimate success that a precious few initiatives will achieve.

Incentives 8

Incentives Survey Innovation Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

In a world with severe healthcare resource constraints, mobile digital technology can be a major " force multiplier." Once we start to do that, and we create larger scale implementations, we will be able to see how far private market incentives will go in addressing the enormous needs, especially in the developing world.

Wireless 15

Wireless Health Care Pharmaceuticals Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

No special incentives. Executives often think that the best way to spur innovation is to remove constraints, to let hundreds or thousands of flowers bloom. Constraints and creativity are surprisingly close friends. Problems can range from entering new markets to addressing everyday concerns such as low employee engagement.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets. Armstrong’s Killer App.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

First, why did it take a team from emerging markets to adopt this US innovation? Our take on the question of why this was first adopted in an emerging market and not in the US? Such severe economic constraints can, counter-intuitively, be an advantage in the innovation game. This raises two nettlesome questions.

Health Care 15

Health Care Cost Quality Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. Gaining real insights into customers’ needs demands more of companies than those arising from typical market research.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

A key to this is that, faced with the constraints of extreme poverty and a severe shortage of resources, these Indian hospitals have had to operate more nimbly and creatively to serve the vast number of poor people in need of medical care in the subcontinent. Today, the U.S. Task Shifting.

Health Care 10

Health Care Cost Lean Production Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. .” Financed by VC firms. Narrowly focused.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market. Surprisingly, big inroads in the physician office-management market are being made by non-traditional players, such as Best Buy’s Geek Squad.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50