Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

Globalization 15

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion.

Quality 13

Quality Working Capital Price Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. During this second phase, grid operators frequently have to intervene to keep the electricity grid in balance. Thus markets entering “Energiewende 3.0” Private-sector solutions are stepping up to meet market needs, too.

Energy 10

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points in 2003-2012.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Cuba has been mired in stagnation for nearly two decades , with the regime unable to generate higher productivity. Cuba currently requires billions of dollars in investment in communication infrastructure, an update to its dilapidated transportation network, and significant capital inflows into key productive sectors.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

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. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. When the U.S.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

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. To align and motivate employees to work together, we eliminated all four centers and created one new streamlined operation in New Jersey.

Company 9

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

However, operating income was $178 million (thus, a measly 0.2% operating margin) which resulted in a $241 million net loss. With “free” expedited shipping, the goal of Prime is unabashedly clear: make Amazon the first-choice retail product provider for consumers. One click assures home delivery in two days or less.

Retail 8

Retail Price Forrester Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If an employee comes up with a great new product or a technical discovery during R&D, aren’t they likely to leave the company, either to found a startup or to join a competitor? times more R&D than small companies, but their R&D is 13% more productive — meaning large firms are the real engine of economic growth.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

In a 2003 study of past Fed chairmen Christina Romer and David Romer of the University of California, Berkeley, reckon that a candidate who subscribes to a "sound" framework of basic monetary principles is most likely to do well. But worse, the financial sector no longer serves its proper purpose: to enable productive real-sector investment.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

If you think more about industry, you might imagine a mechanical arm programmed to install parts on a production line. By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. By 2003, there were 800,000. Their market value is $9.5 If you have dirty floors, you might think of a Roomba. Today, more than 1.3

Definition 8

Definition Ethics Industry Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Rebuilding the community image.

Crisis 55

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 55

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. The Most Productive Firms Are Pulling Ahead, Across Industries.

Productivity 12

Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 12

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. It made me sit down and think… Just yesterday I attended the opening of the second Columba 1400 Leadership Centre here in Scotland. The bottom line for C1400 is to help young people from “tough realities&# to reflect on their personal leadership.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

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 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

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 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The team then turned to the product line.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Indeed, a 2003 Lancet study reported that 63% of child deaths in the 42 countries that account for 90% of global child mortality could be prevented each year through more effective primary care. Market focus. There are considerable hurdles to scaling any health service in resource-constrained settings.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

In North America, less than 1% of all the resources we extract from the earth are actually used in products that are still around six months after their sale. But recycling — melting down products and making new ones — is energy intensive. Maintain Products Instead of Making New Ones.

Resources 8

Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. We redesigned our product and, more importantly, we redesigned our company. And we know that the better the product, and the more efficiently we can build it, the more likely we are to please both groups.

Airlines 14

Airlines Chief Executive Officer Attrition Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. MD Anderson Cancer Center lost $266 million on operations in FY 2016 and another $170 million in the first months of FY 2017. health systems.

System 8

System Insurance Health Care Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. “How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” Greater productivity meant lower prices and faster growth, leading to increased industry dominance. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, Nokia, and Shell, among others, followed this advice and created top-level process owners. They also built a process governance structure that was an organizational overlay on their functional and product structures. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) from 2004 to 2007.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Within a few years, the company built a community of over a million members, commercialized over 100 products, and raised over $180 million in venture capital funding. We have interviewed Quirky executives and studied each of the company’s product offerings, publicly available product reviews, and their development process.

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. In this election, the campaign has a very large in-house data team dealing with all kinds of targeting analytics and also the online operations.

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. To be clear, I agree with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who recently acknowledged that net neutrality principles have been and will continue to be strictly enforced not by regulation but by powerful market forces.

Objective 8

Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8