The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

What’s more, this ‘citizenship boost’ was biggest for those people who would ordinarily face the biggest disadvantages in the labor market. The researchers hypothesized that this gap was caused largely by the negation citizenship provided of the discrimination many migrants face in the labor market.

Comparison 101

Comparison Wilde Ethics Marketing 101

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2011

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published.

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Christensen Books Review Analysis 75

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 110

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. billion euro.

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Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits? But hey, what do I know?

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2019

The researchers assess young people who completed their GCSE exams between 2003 and 2008. The authors suggest that this is down in part to the disciplines undertaken in the apprenticeship, with men typically focusing on vocational areas where apprenticeships have a stronger tradition and cachet in the labor market.

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Education Policies Career Learning-by-Doing 68

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 17, 2011

Morrison with Bob Andelman Crown Business (2003) Note: I recently re-read this book before beginning to formulate questions for an interview of Skywotsky. The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow’s Profits Adrian J. Slywotzky and David J.

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Slywotzky Books Review Industry 70

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The research examined data from the National Science Foundation on over 28,000 scientists and engineers to assess any changes in their employment status and their work outcomes between 2003 and 2010. Indeed, the CRSE report highlights that there are some 4.8

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Short-term Incubator Engineering Trends 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Innovation can be stifled — even snuffed out — by normal business processes. Templates needed to be completed, customer and competitor profiling refreshed, current performance figures confirmed, markets segmented, etc. The numbers need to be checked (and rechecked).

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Innovation Budgeting Market Segmentation Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Mangalyaan is not an isolated example.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?

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Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 16

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Plus, if you missed last month’s instalment with Sunday Times economics editor David Smith , it was a cracker! Catch up here.

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Policies Article Learning-by-Doing Conference 121

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This emerging social era is about engaging everyone around you to redefine what you do and how you do it – including sales, marketing, R&D, customer support, and product development. Building your Social Nation means changing what you think it means to build a company. Still skeptical? Then take a look at the hard numbers.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

labor market of the 2000s coincided with a sharp deceleration in computer investment — a fact that appears first-order inconsistent with the onset of a new era of capital-labor substitution. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had.

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GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If everyone followed that logic, however, there’d be little innovation to walk out the door or to acquire! Small Firms Are Not More Innovative. The first problem with this view is that it ignores where most innovation comes from. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible. The answer is no.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The merger was mostly about one thing: becoming big by gaining entire control of Lipitor, a Warner product that had been shared in a marketing alliance with Pfizer. Moreover, getting bigger through mega-mergers has not proven to make big pharma companies better at their core task: producing innovative new products.

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Price Innovation Industry Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. When the Cayenne came to market in 2003, it was an instant hit. It was a significant risk for a company that knew fast cars, not family vehicles.

Products 8

Products Productivity Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. But one innovation pitfall is particularly insidious because it doesn’t involve an outright failure; in fact, these product launches actually do well in the marketplace.

Products 8

Products Productivity Price Arkes 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. This could be a function of funding availability and the IPO market, or it could reflect something darker about the U.S.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This Book Will Make You Money : How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue by Jim Kukral This book provides an educational and motivational guide to using social media to market your brand or business online. Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative.

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Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. Our research also indicated that 2000-2003 seems to be a time when failure fatigue had set in. That culture is less product-focused, more service-focused, and hence more customer-focused.

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Analysis Sample Globalization Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percentage points in 2003-2012. Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). China, too, needs more technological innovation. The ultimate goal is the ability to innovate independently. It contributed 1.4

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. .”

Health Care 11

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

These days, the country is widely considered a role model for successful labor market reforms. The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. It has improved our economy's responsiveness to the vagaries and challenges of the global market.

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Policies Marketing Learning-by-Doing Cooper 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

But it's this set of beliefs that explains why Western companies fail to succeed in emerging markets where middle class consumers demand good quality at low prices, and why these companies struggle to develop value-for-money products for their home markets during slow growth times like these. Why can't more companies do the same?

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Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation. Innovation Strategy' An HBR Insight Center. Why Germany Dominates the U.S.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In a previous post , I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces).

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Library Entrepreneur Operations Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products. The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.”

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Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Using human-centered design methods, inspiration for the company’s signature products is drawn directly from its cadre of famous and not-so-famous practicing athletes, with whom the designers directly interact with to devise authentic performance innovations and style updates. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. Bharti has enjoyed compounded annual growth in sales revenues of 120% and growth in net profits of 282% per year between 2003 and 2010.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over the last fifteen years Apple has made a series of successful market-creating—or blue ocean—moves (think the iMac, iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad). From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded.

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Products Productivity Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

This income volatility is the result of broad shifts in the labor market. The cost of a bachelor’s degree from a public college has risen by one-third from 2003 to 2014. Financial services providers have the opportunity to innovate, shifting their product set to better enable households to create stability amid volatility.

Health Care 13

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8