Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

Airline operations are a huge optimization challenge. 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. For others, they may opt to work 12-hour-long days.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. 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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

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. To meet these demands, Huawei has recently adopted a long-term incentive plan called Time-based Unit Plan (TUP). For example, in the current U.S.

Case Study 8

Case Study ESOP Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. What if we changed some of those incentives? Presently, many U.S.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

But today investors realize that companies that depend on regulation and artificial market constraints are actually vulnerable. In addition, some cities put an artificial limit on the number of taxi operators by requiring them to buy medallions and agree to a set of local regulations. Companies Can Do Anything Legal.

Company 8

Company Hotels Business Model Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. There is every incentive to be smarter about tackling our infrastructure problems. Pessimism rules, but it needn''t be that way.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 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

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. The parallels with business are clear: Stars are a crucial but perhaps fragile source of innovation and competitive advantage.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

Due to budget constraints, my predecessor had only traveled abroad to cover stories three times in the past year. Travel agents and agencies are operating in an antiquated model that only focuses on price and are not in touch with what today’s business traveler really is looking for in business travel.

Travel 98

Travel Books Airlines Budgeting 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

But what this conclusion neglects entirely is the incentive value of profit. Doing so entails operating more efficiently or innovating to create products that consumers value more. Anyone who owns or operates a business is well acquainted with the risks, sacrifices, and competitive pressures involved.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

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. Platform operators are repeat players, and they’ve honed their skills through repeated dealings with their many seller-suppliers.

Airlines 9

Airlines Hotels Constraint Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This was for incentive payments and supplemental reimbursement for services provided by health professionals and hospitals that became meaningful users of IT. $3 The HITECH Act also included constraints — many about timing. They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 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.

Health Care 10

Health Care Cost Lean Production Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

During a recent visit to the Managing Service Operations course I teach to MBA students at Harvard Business School , McDonald reflected on the lessons he had learned at VA and their significance for service transformation both inside and outside the public sector. Pursue a principles-based organization.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

In the 1960s FM radio was finally set free of counterproductive regulatory constraints. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Instead of having operations mandated, cellular carriers were given defined spectrum spaces. Apple Invents a Radio. Second, wireless licenses were made flexible.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The questions you ask of customers must be more profound and open-ended, with an intent not only to discover how your customers engage with your products or services but also to understand some of the broader parameters of the constraints they are facing in their own lives. Q: How long does this process generally take?

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

So when the first little inklings appeared that there may be a shift from battery cassette players to solid state rechargeable digital music archives like the iPod, your incentive was not to embrace that reality but to eke out another quarter or two doing what you were already doing. Take newspapers.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

If solutions appear to impose unfair constraints on that population, they aren’t going to fly. For the energy industry, obviously, the discussion has been around a cap and trade system—or, more generally, a regulatory system that creates incentives for companies to emit less carbon dioxide. Tesla, for example.).

Price 8

Price Constraint Resources Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The mega forces driving sustainability deep into business — such as climate change, resource constraints, and transparency — are getting stronger. The math and physics of a planetary constraints get clearer. The green supply chain gets some teeth: Walmart changes incentives for buyers. on to 2013.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Such constraints would likely encourage less risk taking before a disaster. Without FEMA, states and municipalities would have better incentives to make direct investments in protecting their territory. The net effect of such a shift in the rules of the game could be a significant reduction the cost of natural disasters.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Incentives Insurance Hammer 9