Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The automotive industry is being disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving cars, just as home appliances is being disrupted by the Internet of Things and smart appliances, home entertainment by on-demand content providers, and apparel by online personal stylists such as Stitch Fix and Trunk Club. Product: mechanical vs. interactive.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds, meanwhile, are a cause of heated debate.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two? Among other steps, it elevated the role of customer segment heads, giving them authority over products and channels for those segments.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

You will need to adopt the same logical, rigorous-but-efficient approach to solve a case for BCG as you will in a case interview for Uber or Canada Goose. A fundamental skillset: Case interviews are fundamentally an assessment of basic reasoning skills and a specific problem-solving mindset. These are universals. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards.

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