The Horizons Tracker
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
The researchers highlight the particular impact on businesses in the travel and hospitality sectors, who have all suffered due to the lockdown measures. By contrast, firms operating in areas such as online retail, pharmaceuticals, and information and communications technology, have all thrived. Face-to-face interactions.
The Horizons Tracker
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
The data revealed some interesting patterns, including some unexpected connections between industries such as credit cards and air travel, while also being a fairly accurate barometer of the overall health of industries, with the likes of oil and gas and pharmaceuticals doing well, whereas retail and telecoms struggled.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 7, 2015
In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. A few decades ago, pharmaceutical companies promoted their products almost entirely through personal contact by salespeople with physicians. Consequently, pharmaceutical companies now look beyond the sales force to reach physicians.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 31, 2016
“Things were different once upon a time before the railroads turned farms into cities… The traveling [sales]man is a middleman and the evolution of business is gradually eliminating the middle man.” Buyers usually first became aware of new products when a traveling salesman showed up at the door.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2017
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator,” stated Francis Bacon. As with many clusters, a university sits at its center: founded in AD 1088, the Studium of Bologna was the major educational innovation of Europe’s second millennium. How did the city make the leap?
Harvard Business Review
JULY 4, 2017
The third playbook for an Apple vehicle is to create new categories , via breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation. What parent who could afford it wouldn’t pay a premium for a car like this? And if you can put a living room on wheels, what else could you put on wheels? Or a kitchen?
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 8, 2013
Breaking down functional silos is key to everything from encouraging communication to building valuable connections to sparking innovation. arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done. Lunch Roulette works in four simple steps.
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