Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. Therefore the most important aim for digital companies is to achieve market leadership, create network effects , and command a “winner-take-all” profit structure.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

labor market in manufacturing and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), if ratified by the U.S. Congress, will likely further weaken the case for reshoring in 2016. consumer market, the stable political and economic environment, and the benefit of tapping into America engineering skills and manufacturing know-how are main draws.

Apparel 28

Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

labor market in manufacturing and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), if ratified by the U.S. Congress, will likely further weaken the case for reshoring in 2016. consumer market, the stable political and economic environment, and the benefit of tapping into America engineering skills and manufacturing know-how are main draws.

Apparel 28

Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity. These figures compare with a rate of 2.5

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Industry Enterprise Boston Consulting Group Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

End users can take advantage of quantities of newly available information to solve problems in population health, clinical decision support, and patient engagement, among other applications. And ease of access means ease of market entry: Emerging data providers can get on their feet quickly and create new sources of competition.

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Data Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Insurance 32

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. With more than $64 billion worth sold in 2016, it looked like a great opportunity.

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Nonprofit Engineering Industry Finance 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. This figure should surprise no one with an interest in big data. But here’s another number: $3.1

Data 28

Data Operations Finance Government 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals.

Healthcare 36

Healthcare Metrics Engineering Financial 36

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

But the scale of the problem means cybersecurity should be a concern for every executive, from HR to Marketing. Learn more about the Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, and access an executive summary here. The risk is growing.

Data 28

Data Intellectual Property Industry System 28

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness. What markets have these companies actually won?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. The result is that large firms are gaining market share.

Software 28

Software Company Industry Policies 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. Despite those trends, our research suggests that technology can in fact provide an advantage to small and new firms. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%.

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Research Data Agile Software 35

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly. Investors are already keenly focused on this area, with many startups competing for a slice of the market.

Trends 31

Trends Healthcare Data Tools 31

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business.

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