Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. A rare natural experiment.

Company 28

Company Research Software Operations 28

Tom Spencer

MAY 15, 2014

Nous service lines include business strategy, public policy, leadership & people development, organisational capability, and information management & technology. Pacific Strategy Partners develops practical solutions by deploying low leveraged teams guided by deep Director expertise. Pacific Strategy Partners. Second Road.

Oliver Wyman 76

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 76

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. Operations and Logistics. Organization and Change.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. In 2008, Booz separated its operations from the U.S. Birchman provides six core services: Value Management, Business Change, Software Development, Enterprise Applications, IT Advisory, and Business Advisory.

Oliver Wyman 83

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 83

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. The Hay Group carried on growing for the next 20 years, expanding its operations and its global reach. Retail services. Industries

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

Talent 28

Talent McKinsey Apparel Sales 28

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Combining their industry experience, the pair were forerunners in what became a specialty area in professional services: turnaround management, corporate restructuring and operational performance improvement for companies and stakeholders. As such, some junior players in the firm feel like their career development is limited.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.)

Government 28

Government Banking System Finance 28

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

Remember how Howard Schultz launched his renewed vision for Starbucks when he returned to the company as CEO in 2008? So, to align company leaders, Schultz gathered 200 senior managers from around the world, sent them out to local retail shops to better understand the customer’s point of view, and then brought everyone back together.

Company 28

Company Sports Conference Retail 28

Harvard Business

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. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Companies are both operators and investors.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Consulting 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Like many luxury brands, Krug was struggling after the 2008 financial crisis.

Energy 28

Energy Productivity Retail Financial 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

Tourism 34

Tourism Fashion Software Development 34

freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

Airbnb Since its launch in San Francisco in 2008 between two friends renting their home out during a conference in the city, this online bed booking service offers over 250,000 rooms provided by private individuals in in over 30,000 cities in 192 countries. billion since its launch.

Hotels 53

Hotels Transportation Energy Company 53

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

The uncertainty could have an impact on a wider ecosystem that affects the attractiveness of the UK as a tech hub: retail, hospitality, healthcare, and financial services. Currency movements may have an impact on the valuations of enterprises and could freeze investments in ways that could be debilitating.

Talent 31

Talent Enterprise Industry Software 31

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6 Digital markets are uneven.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Policies Government Data 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Two developments bear noting.

Media 40

Media Advertising Metrics Productivity 40