Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

It’s even frequently been referred to as “the next Industrial Revolution.” Our products work with apps or without apps. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. I think what you say makes sense, but implementation of your idea requires quite an re-allocation of industry resources. AJ: I totally agree that it massively shift market share from the sick banks to the healthy banks. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. April 1, 2009 at 1:14 AM. Newer Post.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. In our research , we first examined the drivers of firms’ investments in digital innovation and their subsequent market valuations. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In practice, we find important differences. for BMW versus -2.7B

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. In 2010, J.P In 2010, J.P Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Erik Dreyer/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. industries, we indeed found strong evidence of this upskilling. First, some context. .’s

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IMC USA

JANUARY 20, 2011

Affinity offers full service capabilities; technical expertise and industry knowledge that adds value through an innovative approach to program strategy, from the design of products and services to the delivery of the marketing message. productivity solutions. Visit [link]. for more information. consulting. by Euromoney.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat.

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BCG

APRIL 7, 2016

Between 2010 and 2015, they collectively generated a TSR of 19% per year—more than doubling their investors’ money in four years. There are several explanations for the sector’s strong market performance. Other industry sectors also showed tremendous value creation, but it was typically driven by revenue growth.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

“If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. Bloomberg/Getty Images.

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Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

We were recently doing due diligence for a private equity client on a heavy industrial manufacturer they were considering buying. Their growth, however, basically lined up with the overall market they competed in. Productivity. (6). All those global economic indicators in the last year have reversed direction. Related Posts.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Chicago-area businesses can't rely on backlogs as much to keep up production which is also under 50 and at a 6-year low. Production Plummets to Lowest Since July 2009 Digging into to the Chicago PMI report we note Production Plummets to Lowest Since July 2009. Contraction in prices is deepening. in September from 54.4

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Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

In 1954 , Bill Frohlich, and David Dubow, teamed up to form IMS, a market research company aimed at enabling organizations make informed, strategic decisions about the marketplace. By 1969 , they had proven themselves and were held as the gold standard in pharmaceutical market research in Europe and Asia. Market development strategies.

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BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. Japan and China are robust markets for ECS value creation. Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. The following are among the report’s key findings.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

The New York office was opened in 2010 and the San Francisco office was opened in 2012. You’ll develop faster expertise in one of the world’s fastest-growing industry subsegments – an attractive value proposition for rich learning. Are they taking up as much market share as they should? Industries.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 23, 2014

that Sears has made since 2010. Experts said these headlines are only the tip of the iceberg for the industry, which is set to undergo a multiyear period of shuttering stores and trimming square footage. Any time you stop building a product, that''s usually the best indication that the customer doesn''t want it anymore," he said.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Oliver Wyman’s CEO, John Drzik, states that the long-term aspiration is to be recognized widely in the market as the gold standard in consulting. Revenue: $1.35B (2010). At its start, Oliver Wyman capitalized on the deregulation of the financial services industry. Industrial Products. Website: [link].

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Black Market. At the root of Venezuela’s economic woes is a tangled web of price and currency controls which, together with problems in the oil industry that supplies 96 per cent of export revenues, have generated a shortage of foreign currency, on which the import-dependent economy relies. In June of 2010 Venezuela Nationalize U.S.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% between 2000 and 2010. trillion.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He blamed the industry’s notorious low profitability on the “kamikaze pricing tactics of certain carriers” and vowed to not invest in this “death trap” sector again. The industry was indeed unprofitable for decades. commercial banking industry. billion in the four largest U.S.

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Airlines Industry Travel Marketing 28

Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2016

And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. While Dollar Shave Club represents a growing share of the razorblades market, it is still tiny, it operates with low margins, is made up of an irreverent albeit engineering-savvy team – and is, as yet, unprofitable.

Retail 28

Retail Industry Productivity Engineering 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Detractors, on the other hand, point to negative consequences including performance and productivity declines, decreases in customer satisfaction, and adverse effects on remaining employees, such as increased stress.

Company 28

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive.

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Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Now there was a plan in place.

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Government Course Conference Productivity 43

Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. The basic facts are these: Most industries in the U.S. In this view, companies in seemingly every industry are struggling to fend off digital competitors, and in traded sectors they also face competition from overseas. Then Netflix happened. are in different phases of this cycle.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 23, 2010

By Carter McNamara on April 23, 2010. Life cycles apply to many systems, including products and teams. ” Free Management Library and iBrand Masters Tweets 2010-04-25 | Marketing April 25, 2010 at 7:16 pm | Permalink. [.] Stephen R Ferriss April 26, 2010 at 7:26 pm | Permalink. This Blogs Home.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 10, 2010

By Carter McNamara on December 10, 2010. Your client should work the remainder. ” Jonathan Bernstein December 11, 2010 at 6:56 pm | Permalink. ” The process must always be interactive or else the consultant, as you note, may produce a product that just sits on a shelf. Marketing and Social Media. Leadership.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services).

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States. imports of manufactured goods from Vietnam in 2015 will be nearly triple the level of imports in 2010. reshoring train that so many predicted has yet to leave the station.”

Apparel 28

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States. imports of manufactured goods from Vietnam in 2015 will be nearly triple the level of imports in 2010. reshoring train that so many predicted has yet to leave the station.”

Apparel 28

Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

MishTalk

AUGUST 17, 2015

for the weakest reading since November 2010. Last week's industrial production report, boosted by the auto sector, offered hope but today's report is a reminder that weak exports and weakness in the energy sector are stubborn negatives for the factory sector. to minus 15.70 from minus 7.45. from positive 7.99.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 13, 2009

Its no surprise that the industry has a 20% annual churn rate; the half life of a consulting career is just 3 years. I think strategy firms will adapt in that they focus their hiring more on industry specialists rather than generic mba's. Hope you keep up the blog and the commentary on an industry that is sorely in need of change.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

°F) since pre-industrial times, holding the world to 1.5°C ” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. auto industry. Pathway two is what we’re doing now, and it sounds so tranquil and market-based. °C (1.8°F)

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Energy Efficiency Government Transportation 43

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

in business, clearly have a love for aviation and were a professional in the aviation industry from 2006 to 2010. What was happening between 2010 and 2012? What were you doing in between 2010, potentially even prior to 2010 to April 2012. You have a super interesting background. You graduated with your B.S.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule.

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Culture Operations Efficiency Guidelines 45

MishTalk

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Average per-mile rates on the spot market fell again for all three major truckload segments in November, according to data from loadboard Truckstop.com. This is the fourth straight month that rates dipped in all three segments, continuing a now year-long downward trend spurred by both a major drop in diesel prices and market conditions.

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