Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Barbara Ann Berwick drove for Uber for eight weeks in 2014. grew from 20 million in 2001 to 32 million in 2014. It used to be that companies would gain a competitive edge by bringing more and more people, assets, and resources inside the company in order to reduce transaction costs. This trend is expanding explosively.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

But what’s even more notable is that these digital companies are staying small and keeping headcount low, even as the business scales. Look at WhatsApp, which had 55 employees (35 of them engineers) and reached more than 450 million users when it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. Throwing headcount at a problem is not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

In the fall of 2014 my colleague Catherine Tucker and I conducted a large-scale experiment at MIT, in which 4,494 undergraduate students were offered access to bitcoin. But the practical applications for blockchain technology go way beyond financial assets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

However, impact investing’s legitimacy as an alternative asset class remains elusive. Without the commitment of commercial financiers to include impact investments in their core portfolios, or pressure from mainstream investors to insist that they do, impact investment’s route to scale is uncertain.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Digital platforms, such as online communication channels or marketplaces, allow for rapid and inexpensive scaling, among other advantages. They begin with different values, invest in different assets, and choose different leaders. Starbucks stopped accepting the Square payment system in late 2014. Difficult, but not impossible.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. From 2007 to 2014, their R&D spending grew at an annualized rate of 8.5%, greater than the 3.7% The differences were dramatic.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Internet users had almost doubled between 2014 and 2018, reaching almost one third of the user base. Technologies like additive manufacturing are often making it easier to produce highly tailored products at small scale. For example, one survey indicated that the use of ad-blockers among U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Clients simply select the year they plan to retire and buy that mutual fund, and enjoy the benefits of dynamic, lifetime asset allocation. Before target date funds existed, people had to meet with their financial advisors to change the asset allocation in their financial portfolios as they aged towards retirement. Leverage big data.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. Take, for example, providers of cloud-based web services, which give young companies access to scale benefits and flexibility previously unavailable to them. But this inclusive approach may require some uncomfortable choices.

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Harvard Business Review

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. Our current financial accounting model cannot capture the principle value creator for digital companies: increasing return to scale on intangible investments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. When Prime Minister Modi assumed power in 2014, he put digital transformation at the center of his plans.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

As it turned out, having no predetermined way of doing things turned out to be an asset when it came to reinventing retailing and television, and these leaders kept that outsider’s perspective even through waves of growth. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. For each of company, we created a one-page judging profile.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Previously strong barriers to entry have perished; fixed assets such as car fleets, hotels, bank branches, and landline infrastructure have become weaknesses. One way is by reducing dependence on fixed assets. Another is by taking underused assets and monetizing them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

It is always better to build on assets that exist, rather than to try to create an innovation center from scratch.). In June 2014, almost 800 accelerators from across the country competed for $2.5 Silicon Valley has shown the benefit of clustering entrepreneurs around innovative companies and research universities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

They promise a degree of freedom and entrepreneurship in delivery, while maintaining many of the advantages of scale and scope. This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. See the rest of the series here. Collaboration Innovation Leading teams'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” And in 2014, HBR published a lengthy feature critical of the practice. But these claims are very rarely backed up by large-scale evidence, and often driven by a misunderstanding of how buybacks actually operate. Such a nefarious use of corporate funds makes for great headlines.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Last February Lee was charged on five counts: bribery, illegally transferring assets overseas, embezzlement, concealing criminal proceeds, and perjury, which are seemingly unrelated to one another but all point to one event: the succession of control over Samsung. However, data tells a different story.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It is comparable in scale to the $835 billion emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bill signed in 2008 that helped the United States recover from the worst economic crisis in our lifetime — but it would put that much money into the economy every single year. The magnitude of this stimulus is hard to comprehend.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

With their mounting arsenals of digital and physical assets, each has created its own closed-loop opportunity capture as much information as possible about a consumer — all day and night, at any browsing or buying moment. In 2014, it opened an online warehouse store on Tmall Global, Alibaba’s cross-border e-commerce channel.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations. In 2014 the company shelled out $650 million to buy AI startup DeepMind Technologies and went to great lengths to keep that firm’s 50 AI scientists and engineers in place.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The president also announced the indigenization ministry will be disbanded and the program scaled back. For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country. South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Three decades later, Drucker had become convinced that knowledge was a more crucial economic resource than land, labor, or financial assets, leading to what he called a “post-capitalist society.” A 2014 McKinsey & Co. Traditionally, the organizing principle for businesses was to achieve efficiencies of scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. This combination provides scale, scope, and cost economies, which allow Ilum to tailor its offering for each individual hospital.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Distributed energy systems are basically comprised of small-scale energy-generating devices (the most common example being solar panels) that allow for electricity to be produced on-site and consumed immediately, without drawing from the local electrical grid. from 2012 through 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

billion in 2014. Once they do, moreover, their scale advantages make it difficult for others to duplicate. Different assets will be needed for the cross-functional activities required for effective selling of a given value proposition. Alexion has grown from $25 million in sales in 2007 to $1.5 Sell it for more.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

In just five quarters ending in 2014, Apple spent over $11 billion on 29 acquisitions, not including its acquisition of Beats Headphones for $3 billion. The budget for any run-of-the-mill Hollywood action movie is three times the scale of what would be required. America’s foundations are sitting on a trillion dollars in assets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its wonky, but readable, Summary for Policymakers (a precursor to the full 2014 report). And in November, after the Philippines faced the most powerful storm ever recorded to hit land, some climatologists suggested we add a “Category 6” to the top end of the storm scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” But even in late 2014 most merchants didn’t have them. percent in November 2014, to 0.8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Cyber threats are growing in intensity and scale. The public and private sectors need to work together to protect critical assets with confidence and trust — helping manage the risks we know, and getting ahead of those we don''t. media companies. There are two primary areas of concern.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

trillion in 2014 alone. Companies now have unprecedented opportunities to achieve both global scale and efficiency. Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and various e-commerce marketplaces have simply scaled up their digital platforms in country after country with limited customization. Understand the new competitive landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

Today, they are producing the workforce of tomorrow – at scale. The City of Mesa is home to one of the nation’s most unique assets for cybersecurity companies: Arizona Laboratory for Security and Defense Research (AZLabs). Talent is critical in this effort, and Arizona’s educational institutions are ahead of the game.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

All private charitable foundations face stiff penalties under the tax code unless they give away a percentage of their assets annually. After he set up that foundation in 2000, Bill Gates has steadily scaled back his involvement in and ownership of Microsoft, stepping down as chairman in 2014. Last year, Buffett gave 20.64

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Peter Winick

MAY 5, 2025

How purpose, psychology, and storytelling fuel lasting thought leadership This episode explores how thought leadership can evolve from an accidental byproduct into a deliberate strategic asset. It examines the role of data storytelling in scaling influence, driving brand visibility, and increasing enterprise value.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

They create a digital strategy, develop assets such as websites, emails, ads, and mobile apps, and then continuously monitor performance to optimize user engagement. According to the Pew Research Group , 39% Americans called themselves Independents in 2014, compared to 30% in 2004.

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Chief Executive

AUGUST 15, 2022

By 2014, senior positions would be on sale for millions of U.S. But by 2009, they regained traction among the Afghan people, and in 2014, they had the initiative. On a larger scale, the United States shielded the Afghan government from the consequences of its actions. In 2001, the Taliban offered to surrender. When the U.S.–Taliban

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