Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself." The life expectancy of a leading U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. We also found that a focus on innovation tends to go hand in hand with longer-term time horizons. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. You can expect to work pretty long hours during the first few years of opening a business. During one long stretch, lasting several years, we were barely surviving in business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Or take Harris Corporation, an American telecommunications company founded in 1895. At a time when some of the world’s biggest newspaper companies are getting digitally disrupted, Harris exited the sector long ago but moved into adjacent industries. Competition Execution Operations' That makes him sound like Google.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But most true collaborations cannot be controlled with fixed terms that are defined in advance — they must be managed through relational contracts that allow you to respond flexibly to new information. Sun did briefly maintain an arrangement that it termed an "alliance," one of the few times it used that term publicly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Notwithstanding their rapidly growing economies, China and India are a long way from attaining technological parity with developed countries like the US.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. The same logic applies to preparing to operate as an executive. Recognition, rewards, and promotions come their way quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Increasingly, purchasing has more say over decisions that were previously made solely by business areas.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

As long as I have to pay 70 bucks a month for high speed internet, is the additional cost of cable really that much? While Rogers' examples all centered around innovation in agricultural production, his ideas are just as relevant in media and telecommunications. People are primed to embrace disruption in telecommunications.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Increasingly, purchasing has more say over decisions that were previously made solely by business areas.

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CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace. Eight of the CEOs pointed to the challenges of operating in a fast-paced global marketplace. Talent pipelines were also a concern.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. In other words, in terms of matching the strengths and needs of individual women, microfinance can improve economic empowerment, but traditional employment can as well.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system. Consumers use bitcoins to pay for imported cars , among other purchases. Machinery, seeds and irrigation systems will likely witness a surge in demand.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

When you borrow talent, you obtain what you need more cost effectively than hiring it and without making a long-term commitment; and when you lend talent you’re offering your stars and high-potentials new opportunities for growth and development that they might not otherwise get within the confines of your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

It expanded its scope to include related markets such as handsets and applications; it failed to find the market "effectively competitive" (the term that characterized the previous years' conclusions); and it arrived at that new finding thanks to a very different mode of economic inquiry. wireless market was "effectively competitive.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

billion annually in currency operations costs. Ironically, the primary losers in this disruption, at least in the near term, are the consumers themselves. Despite the improvement in telecommunications, India lagged its peers in mobile payments. Reserve Bank of India, India’s central bank, and the banking institutions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. The other, Philip Auerswald, is an economist whose most recent book traces processes of digital disruption over the long arc of human history. Aadhaar: The Base of the India Stack.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve seen this mistake numerous times in other industries — from a customer service fiasco by a major telecommunications company that launched DSL at too large a scale to NASA’s failure to recognize the implications of a foam strike in the Columbia shuttle tragedy. percent vs. the long-term historical average growth rate of 4.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Gobble should be, and has been, rewarded for outperformance in terms of a metric that matters. Philippe Marion/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

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