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

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The company’s market value has more than halved to an 11-year low as it acknowledged overstating profits by hundreds of millions of dollars. Many analysts and unhappy investors point to Tesco’s ill-fated Fresh & Easy convenience store foray in America just as the global financial crisis kicked in.

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Supply Chain Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further. They don’t rationally-discount it, save it all, or give up their jobs in the hope of a handout.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Or hate it, depending on where you stand on the ebook-discount fight being waged on your laptop and tablet. Digital markets produce much lower profit per item,” Pakman lectures us. Andy O’Connell Maybe Not Does Innovation Always Lead to Gentrification? They have little incentive to build a more equitable community.”

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The lack of price sensitivity on the demand side of the health care market cannot but influence strategies on the supply side. Why discount prices when you won’t get more customers? Why invest research dollars in developing innovations that are cheaper as well as better? Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2011

And not just going forward — but retroactively, since the beginning of the crisis. Here's my guess: in the 21st century, if you're playing by the rules of industrial-age business and trying to dress them up with the saccharine sugar-coating of marketing as usual, that's pretty much exactly the bet you're making.

Banking 15

Banking Discount Tactics Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

To help guide your way through, we’ve divided the posts up by the three categories we at LDRLB tend to see the world through: leadership, innovation, and strategy. Innovation. Jane Perdue at LeadBIG tackles crisis management with Rewarding Hat Tricks or Planning.

Leadership Development 167

Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 167

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. Ford blamed Firestone for tires that would not hold up.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis. Why buy clothes at its Kmart stores rather than at trendier Target?

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Today’s standard marketing playbook looks a lot like what Lyons describes in his book.

Cost 8

Cost Marketing Content Media 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Innovation is something other companies do. Product discounting is chronic. Marketing blames Sales. Cliques form and rivalries increase. Political animals rise in the corporate pecking order. Pessimism becomes the common cultural thread. Strategic and operational paralysis has become the norm. Too many operational changes.

Absenteeism 100

Absenteeism Short-term Long-term Strategic Planning 100