Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

Globalization 14

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Corporations should have early warning systems to detect emerging competitive threats that have long-term potential to affect their business. Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms? Executives that dismiss these developments do so at their own peril.

System 15

System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

It started life as an ironworks company, pursued vertical integration by entering coal, eventually moved into pressed steel wheels before diversifying into front wheel drive technology and beyond. Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. That makes him sound like Google.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013. Large technology companies might have to pay as much as $200 million to build a data center in Russia, compared with $43 million in the United States.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system. Currently, the annual expenditures for research and development (R&D) amount to 0.67% of Greece’s GDP. Other Eurozone economies invest four times as much in relative terms, around 2.5%

Planning 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But most true collaborations cannot be controlled with fixed terms that are defined in advance — they must be managed through relational contracts that allow you to respond flexibly to new information. Sun did briefly maintain an arrangement that it termed an "alliance," one of the few times it used that term publicly.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. As long as I have to pay 70 bucks a month for high speed internet, is the additional cost of cable really that much?

Rogers 15

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements. Many technologies, such as computers, copiers, fax machines, and other office equipment are rapidly converging.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 9

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Technology solutions that help accelerate improvements of Zimbabwe’s decaying infrastructure will also be in high demand.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

National circumstances heavily influenced the development of Traditionalists (born from 1928 to 1945) and Boomers (born from 1946 to 1960). China ended its long civil war, and transformed into the Communist People's Republic of China. X'ers in these areas tend not to rely on institutions for long-term financial security.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Enrique Santacana of ABB North America, a power and automation-technology firm, voiced his concern this way: “An overarching issue was the exposure we had as a company,” Santacana explained, “For example, how information was being used or may be used in a way that was not conducive to good business practices. .”

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” Ironically, the primary losers in this disruption, at least in the near term, are the consumers themselves. million hours and $0.5

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. One of us, Arvind Gupta, is head of technology for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party, and has been for the past seven years. Aadhaar: The Base of the India Stack.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. A prototype that takes two weeks to develop in Silicon Valley can be created overnight in Shenzhen.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8