Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business models, the questions they face are questions of unprecedented uncertainty, where past experience may be no help. It’s uncomfortable terrain for many strategists. Trap 1: Replicating What You Did Before. Trap 2: Build It and They Will Come.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Product pioneers face more risk, but can reap big rewards when an innovation proves successful. Research I conducted together with John Joseph of Duke University shows that both approaches can be successful — what matters most is not simply timing but whether a company tailors its innovation strategy to whichever approach it adopts.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. Might product bundles or incentives meaningfully shift demand and production flows? Might product bundles or incentives meaningfully shift demand and production flows? All the originally appealing simplicity vanished into uncertainty.

Process 12

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 12

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

As the underwriting weaknesses of subprime portfolios became known, banks stopped lending to each other, paralyzing credit markets. Unregulated and a relatively new innovation, trusts were the ‘ toxic assets ‘ of the 1907 crises. Rockefeller and others to pony up enough cash to stabilize the markets.

Banking 50

Banking Crisis Morale System 50

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 19, 2022

The development of the Covid vaccines was one of the major scientific and innovation breakthroughs of recent times. Another kind of innovation. The authors highlight how most of the attention when it comes to medical innovation is from areas such as drugs, biologics, and possibly medical devices. Procedural innovation.

Innovation 85

Innovation Incentives Crisis Analysis 85

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” The uncertainty that increasingly characterizes our world means that companies need to attract, retain, and develop motivated innovators who can help to imagine and realize new growth opportunities.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Tesla’s Powerwall storage system is not a radical innovation, and it is not the first battery for energy storage on the market. But, as Elon Musk surely understands, it is not always the best technology that wins the innovation race. Powerwall therefore has all the characteristics needed to succeed in this market.

Price 8

Price Energy Technology Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

As an economist, my training in how individuals invest during times of uncertainty leads me to a much different prediction: America’s coastal cities are going to adapt, get ahead of climate change, and be just fine. Asset owners and investors thus have clear information about the strong incentive to adapt to this emerging risk.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. Investors grapple daily in an effort to figure out how to value companies whose accounting assets — things like land, capital, products, and licenses — don't adequately express their true market value. If ego and time allow, the list can be quite long.

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Secrecy creates an incentive to invest in assets, especially intellectual ones. Unpredictability bluffs, postures, and palters to gain advantage through uncertainty and misdirection. You don’t suddenly pop out of one market and pop into another. Ask Coca-Cola for its secret recipe and listen to a whole corporation laugh.

Strategy 10

Strategy Price Competitive Advantage Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Incorporate the various actors, pressures, and uncertainties that create actual problems for leaders. The classroom should be more akin to one big reality game that simulates a market or industry. Use incentives to stimulate moves and counter-moves.

Network Economy 9

Network Economy Education Agility Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Various federal incentives and regulations now require providers to share data with other providers and with patients or face significant financial penalties. Health care could start to function much more like traditional economic markets. Nevertheless, this vision of the future faces obstacles and uncertainties.

Health Care 12

Health Care System Industry Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The concept seems appealing — incremental investment enters the "social impact" market in the form of below-market loans or equity, incenting mission-driven organizations to become self-sustaining. At the same time, grant support enables us to innovate, grow faster, and stay focused on the bottom of the pyramid.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Franchising Operations Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Europe''s $100 billion carbon market, an innovative force in the powerful carbon-reduction approach known as cap and trade, has ceased to function the way it''s supposed to. This has drastically reduced the incentives for them to invest in or deploy clean-energy technologies or to modernize their energy-infrastructure assets.

Price 8

Price Energy Politics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Marina Nasr / EyeEm/Getty Images. Yet, unfortunately progress did not match expectations. Exchange programs or rotational programs can help here, too.

Agility 14

Agility Team How To Project 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Is free-market magic finally bringing Amazon-style convenience, quality, and efficiency to health care? Some of the nation’s most innovative, high-performing non-profit health care organizations use this formula. The answer is far from certain, and the uncertainties differ for the two mergers. But uncertainties remain.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Insurance Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Too often, companies demand a laundry list of vague qualities, such as creativity and innovation, which fail to align with organizational needs. There are numerous assessments that measure everything from problem-solving and decision-making styles to emotional intelligence to identifying one’s approach to innovation.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We sat down with Rotman Dean Roger Martin, author of Fixing the Game , to talk about the skewed incentives of CEO compensation. Our contributors weighed in with their innovations (and innovators) to watch. Video interview. What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. Interactive infographic. Audio podcast. Economics for Humans.

Video 15

Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

To migrate to a new country also takes a high level of confidence in one’s ability to change and a high level of tolerance for uncertainty. Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. The market favorably receives projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. I disagree.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Public media would support this practice through social marketing campaigns and community education. And often that strategy works.

Health Care 12

Health Care Document System Education 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation. Our pricing, as I mentioned earlier, is demand-driven and what the market will bear, and generally the market will bear a lot.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Core sectors. This can be compounded by government policies that continue to tax stock options highly.

Resources 88

Resources Innovation GDP Education 88

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

This uncertainty calls for political leadership. Moreover, the Senate Republican leadership will have little incentive to push the TPP if a newly-elected President Clinton opposes it, especially if Republicans lose their majority in the Senate. The United States should initiate a competition in policy innovation to help people work.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

To be clear, I agree with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who recently acknowledged that net neutrality principles have been and will continue to be strictly enforced not by regulation but by powerful market forces. ISPs are as unhappy about the endless uncertainty around net neutrality as anyone, and support a permanent legislative solution.

Objective 8

Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8