Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Higher carbon taxes would have a direct effect on encouraging households and firms to consume less fossil fuels and would accelerate directed research in green technologies such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and other forms of renewable power. To reduce flood damage to real estate, we will need architectural innovations.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Aggregate Demand Incentives Real Estate 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Most large corporations will admit to struggling with innovation. But in reality most companies, particularly those that manage to last for any reasonable period of time, do day-to-day innovation extremely well. An "enabling trend" is some technological or societal shift that makes it feasible to address the latent job.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Costs Trends Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is delivered to patients. So where is the link to health care?

Health Care 15

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

We didn't want to burden the organization with fixed costs. Almost everything had to be free, and the few things we paid for had to be scalable so that the unit costs would eventually approach zero. Here are the three principles that guided our efforts: People make the world go round.and technology makes it go faster.

Budgeting 12

Budgeting Software Entrepreneur Fixed Costs 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

The theory of disruption explains why incumbent businesses – with high fixed cost infrastructures and embedded beliefs about what the market wants – fail to adopt business models that lower the cost of their services and drive product accessibility to entirely new sets of users. Disruptive innovation Technology'

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Technology is clearly part of it, as is the trend toward intangible investment.

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation.

EPS 11

EPS Metrics Short-term Depreciation 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The advantages that hospital systems can derive from scale fall into four groups: Classic economies of scale focus on lowering the cost per unit of care delivered (e.g., This type of deal may involve the co-provision or outsourcing of shared services or the joint creation of knowledge and innovation. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 9

Health Care System Cost Price 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. In healthcare, the need for administrative automation is viscerally felt – and the potential for alleviating burden and draining cost from the system is significant. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 12

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products. Because the technology is still developing, they would need not only capital but also a good deal of technical expertise.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Even if the United States implemented all the approaches whose effectiveness has been measured, only 40% of the estimated $1 trillion of wasteful spending would be addressed, leaving a significant opportunity for innovation in all areas of health care. Aggressive supply-side reforms.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

This problem is likely to get worse as personalized medicine becomes more common, more patients get to choose between competing private health plans, and employers shrink the coverage they offer employees in order to reduce their labor costs. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

Cost 8

Cost Insurance Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. Innovative companies are leading the way, applying a broader palette of talent options and relying on more varied types of relationships.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

One would assume that if the engines of innovation are working as the hype suggests, Schumpeter’s famous creative destruction would be happening at a rate seldom seen before. After the 1970s, it spread to other sectors, with the rise in information technology a likely factor behind that. “Corporate concentration (e.g.,

Creativity 123

Creativity Innovation Trends Information Technology 123

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Our collective ability to equally access and innovate on internet platforms, from search and social networks, to content and commerce sites, is fundamental to continued growth. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

Fixed Costs 17

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Content 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Our collective ability to equally access and innovate on internet platforms, from search and social networks, to content and commerce sites, is fundamental to continued growth. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

Fixed Costs 10

Fixed Costs Technology Efficiency Content 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

In my experience from working at an advertising technology company, the reasons are clear: they are easy to install and immediately effective, they make the web look cleaner and load faster, and they prevent advertisers from tracking user activity online. With 200 million downloads and counting, ad blockers are quickly growing in popularity.

Advertising 8

Advertising Content Fixed Costs Software 8