Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

Enterprise 28

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. Once one of the most innovative in its segments, the company lost its way in recent years. The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

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. Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises.

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Nonprofit Engineering Industry Finance 28

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

On February 8th, 2001, KPMG Consulting, LLC, went public on the NASDAQ starting at $18 per share under the ticker “KCIN” Their IPO was 6 months delayed due to the quickly declining high-tech consulting services market. BearingPoint Interview and Culture. Preparing for a BearingPoint interview? KEY STATS FOR BEARINGPOINT.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability.

Intellectual Property 28

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

. “A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise output per worker.” Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. And wages are stagnant.

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Agile Energy Productivity Talent 48

Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. Which is exactly what happened.

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SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Over the past few years, industries from enterprise IT to financial services have become more consumer-centric. Over the past few years, industries from enterprise IT to financial services have become more consumer-centric. Article Credit: CB Insights. Companies are positioning themselves to take advantage of this shift.

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Healthcare Insurance Insurance Retail 53

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Alfred Eisenstaedt/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. To start to answer that question, let’s tally up the score. There are three types of products today.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The good news is that AI is an opportunity to build technology with less human bias and built-in inequality than has been the case in previous innovations. The good news is that AI is an opportunity to build technology with less human bias and built-in inequality than has been the case in previous innovations.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2016

applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. Enterprise IoT buyers seldom require great design, because most often the buyer is not the product’s end user. However, as the application of IoT expands to a broader range of commercial opportunities, enterprise B2B applications have become B2B2C.

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

The Boston office was the originator of concepts such as the experience curve, the portfolio concept, time-based competition, and segment-of-one marketing. We bring to you the Top 10 consulting firms in Boston area and the MC reasons as to why they made it to this list. Read away – and enjoy! Well, they all took place in Boston.

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Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation.

Insurance 28

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Possibly, but the concrete synergies are hard to see, especially considering the $9 billion premium that Microsoft is paying over LinkedIn’s market value as of last week. Beyond that, there are vague tech-speak promises of how LinkedIn’s social network might help Microsoft’s enterprise businesses.

Software 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The team began by identifying 57 companies that have made substantial progress toward transformation.

Methodologies 49

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

Thanks to several comments from readers of that segment, let’s say it was ‘Marg’, one of the women around the fire in the cave who stepped forward and made the suggestions regarding longer spears and a better strategy, the first ‘socio-tech’ intervention. Translate This. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. Guest Writer Submissions.

Development 58

Development Organizational Development Nonprofit Consulting 58

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships. In the traditional media industry, some outlets differentiate themselves through quality, but social media hasn’t gotten there yet — there is no “ New York Times of social media.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? We argue that, like previous revolutionary ideas, blockchain has the potential to help developing nations leapfrog more-developed economies.

Marketing 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

The same could be said for modern marketers — expectations for their technology stack are on the rise too. Bain & Company, in partnership with Google, surveyed nearly 1,700 global marketing and media decision makers to learn more about the value they’re gaining from investments in digital information and technology.

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Data Marketing Bain Media 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation.

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Research Enterprise Video Energy 74

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way. They don’t seek to assess how well an innovation works; they try to measure how well that innovation works for us.

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Banking Engineering Enterprise System 29

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein have introduced a bipartisan bill that would require all tech companies to decrypt customer data at a court’s request. The debate over encryption—and decryption—has heated up as U.S. ” Opponents have criticized the bill, focusing on the privacy implications. Insight Center.

Government 28

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

There are two contemporary strategic imperatives, among others, that many executives are grappling with: (1) competing in emerging markets and (2) partnering with startups to gain exposure to novel ideas and opportunities. Third, the Chinese ecosystem intermediaries (e.g.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based companies doing business abroad. In the U.S., What Is GDPR? GDPR Explained (CNET).

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Alberto Manuel Urosa Toledano/Getty Images. In the U.S.,

Enterprise 28

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. “How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” ” Antitrust deserves the attention it’s getting, and the tech platforms raise important questions. IT Does Matter.

Software 28

Software Company Industry Policies 28

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

The UK tech sector has been among the groups most vigorously opposed to exiting. A survey of members of Tech London Advocates, an industry group, revealed that 87% opposed Brexit. These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. The prognosis is not good.

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Talent Enterprise Industry Software 29

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance the growth of those firms. universities produce much of the basic research that drives high-tech entrepreneurship. In short, the U.S.

Finance 49

Finance Energy Enterprise System 49

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? This is all promising. federal government.

Energy 28

Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The Economics of Clean Tech. If we take the incoming president of the United States at his word, things look dire for the cause of sustainability. Donald Trump and many of his advisers appear hostile to action on climate change and to progress on many social issues that companies have already embraced, such as diversity and LGBT rights.

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