Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Transportation is a significant issue for this patient population.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. People in finance at GE, typically focused on return on investment and payback periods, love FastWorks because they get a better throughput of ideas. They have branded it “FastWorks.” Partnering: getting ideas from start-ups.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Much like our team of engineers who are constantly testing for the best functionality of our products, our team for emerging markets set up a series of experiments to explore which distribution model functioned best in these remote environments. In addition, stoves are difficult to transport from demo to demo.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. It was fundamentally different from the mindset of low-cost frequent and standardized transport that SpaceX embraces today. SpaceX has learned. They think big.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

The explosion of salaries on Wall Street has attracted many of the talented individuals who otherwise would have gone into research, design, and engineering occupations. This flight of talented students to work in finance harms all of us because it means that we have fewer "positive spillovers" from innovative activities.

Politics 15

Politics Innovation Incentives Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Transport on the line was so unreliable that crops in the areas it served were routinely left to rot in the fields during the harvest season. Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up."

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

GE, like the majority of other organizations in the market, has a strong and lengthy history focused on making, distributing and selling things—from jet or railroad engines, to kitchen appliances, and even wind turbines. Immelt is talking about deep, fundamental changes, not superficial adjustments.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Google generates most of its revenue through an auction-based system of selling ads that was developed by two engineers but validated by its chief economist, Hal Varian, a former consultant to the company who was also the first Dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Economists and finance.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. As one remarked, “After eight years, I had built the foundation and expertise in markets and finance. Cities and states are becoming the R&D engines of the U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.

Management 10

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Medicine is fraught with anachronistic administrative structures, as well as competing and redundant decision-making processes involving many stakeholders (the hospital, doctors, nurses, compliance, finance, and others) who often work in silos and have differing goals. Value everyone’s perspective.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

This category includes three types infrastructure: access infrastructure (communications sophistication and coverage, as well as security); transaction infrastructure (access to financial institutions and electronic payment options); and fulfillment infrastructure (quality and performance of logistics and transportation infrastructure).

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

It also saves money because transportation costs on those U.S.-made Engineer your supply chains to be resilient to further shifts and instabilities in trade policies and exchange rates. CY TOP has been able to do this while maintaining its low manufacturing costs by aggressively reengineering and automating its U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. If things look bad for goods moving across borders electronically, they look even worse for transporting content.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8