Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. They typically hire third parties to help them with IT and never make it part of their core business. A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

million records), Wyndham Hotels (600,000 credit cards), eHarmony (1.5 Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. IT management' Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. It’s a strategy that has also worked for others on the list.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Indeed, new research from the University of Surrey highlights how robots could be rolled out in the hotel industry as the sector attempts to assure guests that their stay will not compromise social distancing requirements. Digital transformation of healthcare. It’s a process that has almost vanished during the pandemic.

Innovation 97

Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 97

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Now, however, students’ college and pre-MBA experience is more likely to be in a finance area or perhaps in coding. Each group has its own operating procedures.

Education 8

Education Levitt Retail Training 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The company is now pervasive - with 65 million unique visitors each month scouring the site for reviews of hotels, restaurants and sites around the globe. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel.in and EBITDA margins are 47%.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The small size of unicorns allows the top management teams to be directly and deeply involved in most of the strategic decisions, which are then implemented through a flat organization. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8