The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2020

The researchers examined changes in both wages and employment between 2000-2003, and then in the three years after the tax changes were introduced. The analysis discovered a 1% increase in the payroll tax corresponded with a 0.32% decline in wages in the local labor market.

Incentives 91

Incentives Analysis Policies Insurance 91

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 109

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. Actively listen to different viewpoints and facilitate constructive discussions that promote understanding and innovation. References: Bandura, A. G., & Bersoff, D. Jossey-Bass. Stacey, R.

Open-book 78

Open-book Self-aware Shaw Learning-by-Doing 78

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.

Education 67

Education Policies Career Learning-by-Doing 67

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

Short-term 65

Short-term Incubator Engineering Trends 65

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.

Media 66

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 66

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?

Innovation 18

Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 18

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).

Innovation 15

Innovation Budgeting Market Segmentation Bottom-up 15

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.

Innovation 14

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 14

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.

Learning-by-Doing 121

Learning-by-Doing Policies Article Skills 121

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.

Innovation 13

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 13

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.

GDP 20

GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 20

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.

Price 16

Price Innovation Industry Long-term 16

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.

Analysis 15

Analysis Sample Globalization CEO 15

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?

Quality 15

Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 15

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.

Policies 14

Policies Marketing Learning-by-Doing Cooper 14

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).

Library 16

Library Entrepreneur Operations Health Care 16

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

GDP 15

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

As proprietors of a college-focused recruiting firm since 2003, we've seen examples like this again and again. If your company has a youthful, tech-minded, or innovative vibe, try to convey that (but don't fake it). Outdated interview practices turn off would-be Millennial employees too early in the recruitment process.

Class 15

Class Process Information Environment 15

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.

Outsourcing 13

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

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.

Long-term 14

Long-term Innovation Technology Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be.

Globalization 18

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. Pharmacia & Upjohn made a startling turnaround and then merged with Monsanto in 2000 to triple its size to a $52 billion market cap.

Company 12

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 12

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 15

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 15

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 11

Products Productivity Price Arkes 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

For example, in 2013 there were 315 people in China who had more than a billion dollars , up from zero in 2003. Due to the one-child policy there are many more men than women in China, particularly in rural areas, so competition in the marriage markets is intense and some men have to work really hard to find a spouse.

Advertising 15

Advertising Retail Media Price 15

Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

When Robert Greifeld was asked to take the helm of Nasdaq in 2003 to execute a turnaround, he came with a new story. As he relates in Market Mover , the story had five parts: 1. Market Mover is of course, full of the nuts and bolts of financial technology and the digital economy, but it is so much more. Reduce Bureaucracy 3.

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Organization Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Technology 311

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Of the 39 companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1B by private or public market investors, almost half were started by founders who met at school. The founders in this category were intensely self-aware and looked for innovative ways to turn their work experience and hobbies into full-fledged businesses.

IPO 13

IPO Insurance Entrepreneur Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy. Social enterprise Venture capital'

Bond 15

Bond Education Finance Video 15

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.

Brand 9

Brand Globalization Company Development 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

One of the basic principles behind Clayton Christensen’s famous conception of disruptive innovation is that the fundamental things people try to do in their lives actually change relatively slowly. Market disruptions typically combine a simplifying technology with a business model that runs counter to the industry norm.

Business Model 11

Business Model Wireless Disruptive Innovation Innovation 11

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 15

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 15

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Vital signs: awareness and treatment of uncontrolled hypertension among adults—United States, 2003–2010). Communications Innovation Leadership Miscellaneous Operations & Strategy Success Damian Pitts Damian Skipper Pitts N2growth Organizational Behavior Organizational Change Organizational Culture Organizational Development'

Health Care 353

Health Care Organizational Behavior Operations Diversity 353

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.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

At this point, the commercial viability of a market-based approach to providing good quality housing in urban areas at prices affordable to low income customers is beyond question. Innovative wastewater technologies will be used in several forms to create a fully recyclable, near zero water system at each development.

Suri 16

Suri Construction Class EBITDA 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s initial failure in great detail (the company relaunched earlier this year). Marrion Barraud for HBR. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt.

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Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8