Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies are both operators and investors. And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry?

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. We’d like to propose a solution. What – or who – is a Qualt?

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. For example, adjusting supply chains can take up to nine months or longer depending on internal and external constraints. It is possible that we won’t have perfect information by April 2019. How to Plan for Brexit.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When Burt studied managers in the supply chain of Raytheon, the large electronics company and military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts, he discovered that the company had no trouble coming up with good ideas but considerable difficulty turn­ing these ideas into reality. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. Active investors such as hedge funds seek to outperform the market and index providers.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. We have seen the market penalize that approach.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Multinational companies should pressure-test 2018 sales targets and currency hedging against this scenario.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9