Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2019

Franchisees can take on an already established brand and don’t have to worry about marketing themselves, as this is done by the franchise centrally. In particular, the costs of marketing and developing new products don’t fall on the shoulders of individual franchisees. Many aspects of a franchise business will be managed centrally.

Franchising 54

Franchising Licensing Depreciation Cost 54

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. east and north of Chicago already have “bulk” power markets that trade early versions of these new products and services.

Energy 8

Energy Licensing Efficiency Software 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2019

You might be the greatest widget-maker on the planet, but if the market for widgets is saturated that will not matter – it will be a struggle, up-hill, to get noticed by potential customers. Mr. Offen is licensed to practice in the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It’s a nominal expense for what you get in return.

Conference 13

Conference Reference Quality Licensing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

Tim Cook recently confirmed that Apple is working on ‘autonomous systems.’ With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market.

Transportation 9

Transportation Sports Pharmaceuticals Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Your driver’s license is the default proof of identity for everything from flying domestically to buying a new house. At the same time, we can anticipate friction as new forms of identity verification are integrated into old systems (technological, business, and social systems) with the potential for further erosions of privacy.

Crisis 9

Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. We have seen that redesign in Kenya, where MPESA, a mobile money solution , has emerged as the most important banking institution without a bank license. Even in agriculture, digital technology is working.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

and the transfer of business risk from "too big to fail" institutions to taxpayers, leading to a "heads I win, tails you lose" relationship between the finance and the rest of the economy. The President should choose the person who best understands that the financial system should serve the economy and the society, not the other way around.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

It also received its early stage finance from the U.S. government is often portrayed as providing a safeguard against market failure. Elsewhere, I have called this role, which entails creating and shaping markets more than "fixing" them, " the entrepreneurial state.". government's Small Business Investment Company program.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Nearly two years ago, I wrote that the phenomenal economic and social potential of commercial drones, more properly called unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), was being stymied by a slow-moving Federal Aviation Administration. As our research shows, better and cheaper innovations often generate “winner take all” markets.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. Soon after, he’d landed the firm’s biggest partner, Howell. .” He needed to fix this.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. But to build toward its future state vision, and scale up its insurance business, the organization sought and won licenses in D.C. Competing in New Ways.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade. ” Thus a modern market economy is inconceivable without proper identification, because there are no proven holders of property rights.

Document 10

Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Over the months that followed, more than one billion people participated in a “reboot” of the country’s financial and monetary system. Consider, for example, a government payment system created in 2016 that was processing 100,000 transactions per month in October of that year, prior to the sudden demonetization.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold. And, importantly, it would set up the sales and distribution infrastructure to sell the product to those who could afford to pay for it, while still focusing on bottom of the pyramid markets. Such stakeholders generally expect a "social return" on capital.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. If the real estate market where you live is down, it could be difficult to get out of your current home. Tap your support system for ideas to save — and to cope. anniepaddington/Getty Images. Dependable. It can feel dreadful.

Career 12

Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). A well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy. It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. Go-To-Market Strategy planning and budgeting is just as vital to a successful launch as the product itself.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

banks exploded in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, with disastrous consequences for American firms, markets, and households. Neither did a bank’s prior derivatives activity nor a host of other factors known to predict movement into riskier domains of finance. Paul Garbett for HBR. Risk taking by big U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Risk Management Crisis Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America).

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8