Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? Beyond the humiliating difficulties for millions of impoverished individual women trying to improve themselves and support their families, this is a global issue with significant consequences for the economies of developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Following in the formulaic footsteps of its big-budget predecessors, like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise , Disney surmised that the action-packed, special-effects-bedazzled Carter would kill at the box office. Clearly the thriving film market needs to shift to a culture that bases decisions on data — not gut checks.

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Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Following in the formulaic footsteps of its big-budget predecessors, like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise , Disney surmised that the action-packed, special-effects-bedazzled Carter would kill at the box office. Clearly the thriving film market needs to shift to a culture that bases decisions on data — not gut checks.

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Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 18

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

So you can read about companies that succeed in having technology systems that support continual improvement or go to conferences and learn, or interact with them online, or even go visit them. What those companies will tell others about what they do will almost never cover most of what is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

But the good news is that there are common elements—seven organizational capabilities that can be developed and combined in different ways to take a promising innovation to the next level. They are: Staffing. It's hard to take a venture to the next level without knowing how to recruit, train, and retain talented people. Replicating.

How To 18

How To Franchising ROI Entrepreneur 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Once wholly in the hands of managers (the "visible hands" chronicled by industrial age historian Alfred Chandler), technology innovation used to begin with a company's commitment of resources to R&D and patent protection. To see how inventive Kinect hackers can be, see their joint showcase here.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

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Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Their theory is supported by examples such as Louis Vuitton, a company built around an emotional status symbol, and Curves, a successful gym franchise anchored on a social weight-loss experience. By providing its customers with the same product, Apple actually developed the most social product on the market.

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Levitt Succession Wireless Franchising 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung. Bottom line: Are you game or are you out?

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

The work of this one man is said to have touched 40% of eye care patients in the developing world to date. Due to his experience as a government doctor with rural camps, he knew that he had to develop highly efficient, scalable, repeatable processes to treat the masses that came.

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Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” For entrepreneurs and investors, wealth creation may be the benefit.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. Information & technology Managing people Talent management'

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Team Sports Franchising Conference 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. That vision prompted Danone to divest product lines such as biscuits and beer while broadening its core dairy franchise. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Content Technology Information Technology Franchising 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

IT professionals need to recognize and embrace the Serendipity Economy in order to better understand the impact of technology investments, improve employee engagement and drive business transformation. Technology investments work the same way. Serendipity into Performance. The managers haven''t stopped talking to each other.

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold. Furthermore, this allows the for-profit entity to develop and focus its competencies to sell and distribute products, as well as to conduct research and development. The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty.

NGO 9

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Steve Buscemi's portrayal of antihero mob kingpin Nucky Thompson is the stuff you almost never see on the big screen anymore — extraordinarily deep character development, moral dilemma, actions, consequences, and a human drama as rich as life itself. The paradigm is shifting in favor of new technology and new ways of relating.

Conference 10

Conference Film Franchising Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

If you believe this is a problem confined to the developing world, consider this: The rate of maternal mortality in the United States has doubled in the past 20+ years. This is essential to developing services she will use and, longer term, putting into place solutions that will have a lasting impact. The private health sector ?

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. Embracing New And Multiple Means Of Distribution. Taking The Long View.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One technology company targeted a 50:50 pay mix for salespeople in new customer acquisition (CA) roles, but a 70:30 mix for salespeople in account management (AM) roles. Franchise sales have nothing to do with salespeople. Within an industry or company, pay mix often varies across sales roles. Free sales come in two forms.

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Motivation Incentives Franchising Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. Smart marketers are developing, partnering to build, or integrating AI into their tech stacks to get better at what they do.

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Marketing Policies Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. By July 2016, virtually every Indian had a mobile telephone and access to text messaging, primarily using 2G technology.

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Strategy Banking Venture Capitalist Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. “FOX Sports has always been about fans first,” says Tom Zentmeyer, Vice President, Technology and Games at FOX Sports.

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Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

P&G was able to combine Mach blade technology with its women’s skin care expertise to market women’s shaving products under the Gillette Venus brand. Gillette introduced new shave lotions, deodorants, and shower gels for men using P&G’s soap, lotion, and antiperspirant technology and expertise.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Biotechnology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP). By 2009, however, Verizon had scaled back plans for more fiber and DSL technology was falling behind improvements in cable. continuing to rely almost entirely on private investment. As the U.S.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. Instead, Ford has had to develop new norms and new competencies to meet its new challenges. Develop a portfolio of new business models.

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Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. Clippers for $2 billion. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The app was a big technology project for us. Working with an Israeli software development company, AppFront, we invested six months and more capital than we ever thought possible on it. You just have to look for and seize every opportunity to make your people feel valued and purposeful in their work.

Franchising 8

Franchising Download Loyalty Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

But that policy came at the cost of badly degraded incentives for providers to invest in new technologies, leaving the EU with minimal cable Internet, fiber-optic networks, or high-speed mobile broadband. Regardless of speed or technology, broadband availability in Europe is far behind. At least for voice services, the U.S.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. That is 6 million lives – 100 football stadiums of children – that could be saved each year.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In 2008, he gathered four other Israelis living in San Francisco to be his cofounders and they hired a coder in Ukraine through Craigslist and paid him to develop an ordering app. For Eat24, that meant small, local, family restaurants — not the big chains and franchises. To a large franchise, they wouldn’t.

Marketing 8

Marketing Franchising Competitive Intelligence Advertising 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

One might add that at the time of the Founders, America had approximately 2 million people, and many fewer had the franchise than today. M [link] James Strock Great points, Mike. Now we're over 300 million. No one could credibly argue that our political leadership is anywhere near the same class as the Founders' era.

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Blog Politics Short-term Long-term 415

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Two developments bear noting. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. The first is competition among media, which has increased as digital technologies have led to a vast number of new media outlets, each catering to more-niche tastes.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 15