Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. In April’s Harvard Business Review , we offer a menu of options for concerned incumbents. Uber reliably provides cheaper and more convenient rides. Who could resist?

Hotels 8

Hotels Price Tactics Operations 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In the business world, focusing strictly on a digital experience will eliminate customer loyalty and emotional connection to a brand. But businesses need to provide it in moderation and not at the cost of the human experience. Traditional branding is an old paradigm. About the Author.

Company 70

Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 70

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

More importantly, change should not consume every aspect of a business at the same rate or to the same degree. Leaders ought to be wary about bringing change to vibrant cultures, the positioning of brands, and effective business models. They love to put their mark on the brands under their roof.

Brand 100

Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Executive teams need to assess their industries’ and companies’ time horizons for the technology, because they will have a huge amount of strategic and business process planning to do before their companies adopt it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

And, starting now, they must create the organizations and web-based business models that can turn these ideas into reality. But embedding them into a services-based business model is much more fundamentally challenging. Given the reality of limited resources, this lands many traditional product companies at a crossroads.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

By applying this kind of arbitrage, a temporary or permanent migrant can decide to replicate a profitable product or business model available in one country but not in another. We conducted two experiments to find evidence that these effects can make immigrants more entrepreneurial.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers; it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering; and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Companies across the spectrum are grappling with change as new technologies, innovations, and customer behaviors disrupt old business models. To affect changes in culture, some CMOs are partnering more closely with human resources. But the CMO has a unique and critical role to play to deliver the change.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

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. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts. In particular some 80% of their business resources are fluid. Organizationally we have not.

Christensen 16

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. ” The process paid dividends for McKay’s leadership brand as well.

Crisis 8

Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

Culture, strategy, leadership, branding, innovation, customer orientation and employee centricity must co-exist. Business Models Change. Strategy does not curtail change because business models need not be static. A $5 billion business known as Nespresso was the result. Most leaders and managers know this.

Strategy 100

Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100