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. Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. The cycle time for new technology has compressed and will continue to do so.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

That is, until a crisis forced them to wake up. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Some estimate the market for market research alone at $20 billion annually.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Regarding the former, the increased complexity of global supply chains could increase the likelihood of industrial accidents due to such factors as technological differences between home and host countries or culturally divergent perceptions of risk and workplace safety.

Globalization 8

Globalization Industry Cost Supply Chain 8

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 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 not raise rates and use the revenues to build new facilities, hire new staff, and acquire new clinical technology?

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Frito-Lay has already made competition the cornerstone of its Super Bowl advertising , and Toyota , desperate to remind people what a wonderful corporate citizen it can be, invites aspiring innovators to suggest how the firm's technology can be used for good in unexpected ways. obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Take Dell Technologies, for example. Caesars Entertainment has built test-and-learn into its marketing investments.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

If we're launching a new type of bicycle and we want to know how likely it is that this person is a bicycle rider, we would apply that score, saying: here's the likelihood that this person is a bicycle rider in the market for a new bike. Is it the mortgage crisis? Does this also apply when you're looking to marketing a product?

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8