Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It isn’t entirely fair to heap all of the blame onto the CEO’s; there was another broken system at play, the Board of Directors. It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. HP Has Historically Had an Ineffective Board. Take for example my LaserJet printer.

Hotels 150

Hotels Wireless CEO Long-term 150

Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2014

Learning how to use lead-generation marketing to your advantage requires planning and forethought. When their campaign is over, they have no idea how well specific tactics are working to provide them with the leads they need or if they’ve provided a positive ROMI (Return On Marketing Investment). The Power of Testing. About the Author.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

A classic example was the old Bell System. Did the old Bell System, complete with its shelves of policy manuals, work? A classic example of a new-world organization is AT&T Wireless Services (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications); which AT&T paid twelve billion dollars to acquire. Pretty well! What would happen?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. World authority on project management.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

He is credited with inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and, most importantly, the electric light bulb and the accompanying distribution system for electric power. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?)

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Wireless connectivity. When they get to the car, they wave their membership card over a sensor on the windshield (the card and sensor communicate wirelessly), which triggers a wireless query back to the company's database to make sure the user is OK to take the car. Wireless Connectivity. What are they? Microprocessors.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. This truth could be very different from what the company thought it was or was marketing it as.

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Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

It then follows that we should not pressure China on this matter and instead push for greater market access and human rights reforms. A forward look sees China's new export mix to its developing market trading partners in Southeast Asia and Africa: fast rail systems, wind turbines, and wireless telecom equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Evermore sophisticated checkout systems allowed retailers to tally each purchase, maintain stock control, and see what was being purchased when. It's entirely probable that as smart phones become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, wireless advertising will link directly to the shopping data.

Retail 16

Retail Wireless Advertising Price 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider. It stiffed Cellairis and the wireless providers whose services it resold. Nothing more than a tweak, they thought.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Given that this intervention could prevent more suffering than many wonder drugs, one would expect that there would be zero market for a breathing machine that didn’t make lung-preventive ventilation as easy as possible. Instead, they waste time on nonproductive work, filling the gap between these two systems.

Technology 8

Technology Health Care Wireless System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy. The demands of practitioners and the market supply of innovation from entrepreneurs are simply mismatched. The result is a large-scale market of technological mediocrity. Regrettably not.

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Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. With the war for talent taking place on all fronts, companies must have great talent management practices and systems in place.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This discount is directly targeted to tablet makers (to be more competitive against iPads) as well as notebook manufacturers (to take on rivals that use Google’s Chrome operating system). For instance, when discount airlines started entering different markets, incumbent carriers typically panicked. PS4s by mid-February.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Cloud-based gaming poses a higher risk to the casual end of the market because it allows relatively complex games to be played on simpler, cheaper devices.

Strategy 12

Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Bean is embarking on a major investment in its systems infrastructure. Terry Sutton , vice president of business transformation, told me that "The systems we''re implementing are about operational excellence. As a direct marketer we have been good at customer intimacy. We know a lot about our customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. They also have the potential to allow cyber attackers into the physical world in which we live as they seize on security holes in these new systems. Train engineers to apply existing systems-engineering tools to security threats.

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Engineering Software Wireless Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

This confusion is most apparent in the area of software, where very often the hard transition from the prototype (often little more than a rough idea) to the stably implemented mass-user system tends to be romanticized away. Another take: consider Emotiv 's quest to make brain scans a mass consumer product.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Many homeowners, for example, have connected their alarm systems to security companies; many drivers accept having devices such as mileage trackers in their vehicles. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances.

Retail 12

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. Indian entrepreneurs are feeling bullish about global markets. This expansion isn't just domestic.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Along comes Google, a wealthy search company that has never participated in the device marketplace and never conducted any significant R&D to develop technology related to operating systems. It decides to enter those markets but unfortunately owns hardly any of the technology it needs to be successful.

Technology 14

Technology Licensing Wireless Price 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

To complete the revolution in IP voice, however, we still need to untangle the remnants of profoundly complicated regulatory machinery that for decades carefully controlled the Bell System at the federal and state levels. We need to figure out quickly the optimal path to the overdue end-of-life for our venerable phone system.

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Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., Where was its leadership bench? Succession planning'

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

There are obvious benefits to both companies: Zipcar gets capital and more footprint; Avis gets expansion into a rapidly growing and youth-oriented market. But I'm skeptical about how easy it will be to peel Zipcar's highly integrated, mission-critical technologies apart and make them work with Avis' systems at scale.

Technology 8

Technology Wireless Budgeting Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

The old way was IT systems management; the new way is platforms that enable new value chains and integrated ecosystems. Think of it this way: Based on the technology-enabled hard trends that are already in place, over the next five short years we will transform how we sell, market, communicate, collaborate, innovate, train, and educate.

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CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Each research area has a unique focus: Business Unit Laboratories focus on specific markets, with near-term products; Sector Laboratories, on applications with 3-to-10 year time horizons; and Corporate Laboratories, on basic research with a time horizon of as long as 20 years. The result: Scotch tape. Give people the room they need."

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Innovation Engineering Wireless Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

A new CMS code may seem like a tiny matter, but this one emblemizes a larger shift toward delivering health services independently of time and place, enabled by technologies such as smartphones, sensors, and wireless health-monitoring devices — what we in the field call telemedicine.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

If their projections turn out to be right, we should get ready for a bumpy road ahead, with market volatility and negative surprises. The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. This is not guesswork.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., computers & peripherals, electronic equipment & components, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

In a big data world, though, these propriety systems may struggle to keep up. Similar to the cable TV model for content delivery, these delivery networks will be the essential funnel through which information-based offerings will find their markets and be monetized.

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Business Model Dunning Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Consider the market for smartphones. Platform builders must pay attention to the design of incentives, reputation systems, and pricing models. By building a digital platform, other businesses can easily connect their business with yours, build products and services on top of it, and co-create value.

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Strategy Succession Retail Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. So the challenge was to have the broad marketing strategies with local adaptations.” Currency really had a big effect.”

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