Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Today’s leading organizations are using machine learning–based tools to automate decision processes, and they’re starting to experiment with more-advanced uses of artificial intelligence (AI) for digital transformation. Last year alone saw $5 billion in machine learning venture investment. Related Video.

Process 15

Process Company Supply Chain Software 15

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.) We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value.

Industry 15

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 15

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

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Yes, it's December again somehow: time to look back on what we've learned and oversimplify into a handy list. While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Right now, the U.S.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

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. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Education Asset Management Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. We began collaborating when we recognized how interlaced asset management and product recovery were in textbook CEs. We identified these approaches through our work with life cycle asset management company DLL.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. How, then, can organizations break free of conventional thinking to spark creativity? The first step is to consider the way you have always done business — and stop.

Hotels 12

Hotels Disruptive Innovation B2C Price 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 Do away with the game of quarterly earnings guidance, and instead articulate to investors your “strategic framework for long-term value creation.” No one has done more to spotlight the contrast than Laurence Fink, the CEO of BlackRock. Insight Center.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

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. Sometimes that makes sense.

Execution 9

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

More complex types of cognitive technology — neural or deep learning networks, natural language processing, and algorithms — can seem like black boxes even to the data scientists who create them. How robotics and machine learning are changing business. Build on your analytics strength to emphasize machine learning.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Beliefs drive actions and altering our belief systems will ultimately do more than anything else to amplify and reinforce the kinds of behavioral changes that, in the end, are the only measure that counts. 1) Believe in your power to make markets efficient — but abandon the efficient market dogma.

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