Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. A prime example is Netflix.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One of the most enticing global entrepreneurial opportunities these days is taking a digital business model that works in the U.S. Several students in my Leading Global Ventures class at Harvard Business School have done just that over the past few years, and many more would like to follow suit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

The name itself describes the business model. We've received support from bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, such as the World Food Program and USAID, which helps shape and guide PFS by sharing experiences, methodologies and resources through a public-private partnership formed in 2010. Embrace technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Insurethebox, a U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. The Global Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). Finally, certain problems are almost custom-made for global giants. The inspiring idea had clear potential to make a global impact.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

"Asia Fueling Global Innovation." While that presents a clear challenge — retaining the awesome accumulated knowledge of these scientists — it also creates an opportunity to make sure that R&D talent is balanced with global opportunities. Simplifying technology and new business models."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets. Yet businesspeople and designers still have much to learn from and about the BOP consumer. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

No matter how bad the last few years have been for your business, you can at least take solace from the fact that you're not in the media industry. Rapid technological and competitive innovation. A great deal of the argument made in 2010 by those in favor of U.S. Unless, of course, you are in the media industry.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

By 1993, just eight years after its founding, Blockbuster was the global leader in movie rentals, with more than 3,400 stores worldwide. Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. And while the pace of globalization may have slowed, it has not retreated. Then Netflix happened. are in different phases of this cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

pace in the first quarter of 2010. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. They need to test assumptions, iterate, and change their business models rapidly in order to find a product and profit formula that is viable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Previously, she was the vice president of Global Public Policy at Facebook. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Future Economy. Mission-Driven Sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. Technology. It's the same inertia we saw in the early days of the internet.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

From our research on leading businesses and corporate foundations worldwide for Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World , we've learned that companies can leverage their know-how, their social and business networks, and even their core business models to make a bigger difference.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Insurethebox, a U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Globalization vs. Simplification. Doing business today means doing business globally, but the complexities brought on by globalization are often in conflict with the need for organizations to make it simple for customers to do business with them. Innovation vs. Regulation. Digitization vs. Humanization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Its successes command global respect; its failures deserve serious scrutiny. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. Technology couldn't have been the issue. Cisco is an easy company to admire. What happened?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

When I reached the finish line, I translated that into the global economy. So in 2010, I started this foundation and coined the "circular economy" term to help frame the concept. First, business because they can drive change fast. The business model changes. The marketing model changes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Instead, ideas, technologies, capabilities, and resources somehow organize themselves to meet the human and financial needs of new ventures. As with any type of endeavor, there's a learnable skill to starting up a brand new business. FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco. Let's start with the human side.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Fostering innovation.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age. As of 2010, only 2.4% companies have a woman CEO versus 9% globally. All that said, the lack of corporate jobs has actually become a catalyst for women entrepreneurs to start their own businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

However, new unreleased research from Spencer Stuart , a global executive search firm, suggests that we’re giving this sector short shift: There may be specific cases when a consulting background can actually boost company performance, even more so than a more traditional candidate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. 3 globally). The nature of disruption is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

With the ad market under $70 million, many of our local competitors were rapidly experimenting with new types of revenue and business models and were far ahead of us. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. This raises an interesting question.

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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. Since then its stock has more than doubled.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Here's my take on the 10 big stories in sustainability and green business this year: The usual sustainability drivers got stronger. Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). China, China, and China. Right now, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths. In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

But the vast majority of men below the pinnacle of the social pyramid, an estimated 400 million, still shaved with double-edge razors, a century-old technology that tends to cause far more cuts and bleeding. Third, P&G didn't stop at an India-tailored product, but built an India-tailored business model.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Ranjay Gulati, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at HBS, heads the Advanced Management Program — which empowers executives with the management expertise and cross-functional perspective to drive performance across domains, industries, and borders. Developing the Global Leader.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." Bharti, on the other hand, has little expertise in technology. In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In today’s global economy, one size fits all leadership styles are simply disasters in the making…It’s essential to understand that what works in China will be different than what works in Ireland. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 Winner-take-all economics favored the companies in the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

I can’t help clients lead change if my business model is antiquated or static. When I ran the Talent Management division of a large global consulting firm after I left GE, I realized that these consultants were working from concepts that were academic vs. real life. I have long believed in eating my own cooking.

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