Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.) A few key characteristics distinguish superstar firms from the rest, that perhaps others could learn from. The bottom 10% destroy roughly as much economic value as the superstar firms create.

Industry 15

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Education Asset Management Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure.

Hotels 12

Hotels Disruptive Innovation B2C Price 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

Management 15

Management Software BPM Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Making the right investments in learning and development programs has never been more important – or more of a challenge – for business leaders. billion dollars on learning and development programs, many executives still grapple with how to improve and enhance their effectiveness. Provide flexible learning options.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Yes, it's December again somehow: time to look back on what we've learned and oversimplify into a handy list. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. These were all experiments, and you always learn from what doesn't work. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. Unless you have written data contracts in place that clearly allocate ownership of data and derivative works, you may not be able to do anything with the data. How do you ensure that your execution is commensurate with the revenue opportunity? Do you decide to stop? Test, learn, and tweak.

Execution 9

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". More and more, we realize, the crucial first step is to tackle our deeply embedded intellectual frameworks.

Marketing 14

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. The tricky question is what to do about risk. But how do you do that? Still, Campbell is a great explainer.

CAPM 10

CAPM Discount Price Finance 10