Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Corporate revenue is increasingly coming from regions outside the United States and Europe. For a lot more, take a look at our brand-new Visual Library (a subscriber-only benefit) and some of our new videos (free for everyone). Most people have no idea whether they’re paid fairly.

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Walk Me

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Staff, revenue, and customer relations can all negatively affect a poorly organized change management project. Remote and hybrid working are now widespread, giving many benefits to employees. Linda Brimm proposed an alternative model for managing complex change in 2015. . Why Is Managing Complex Change Important?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. Over the same time period, the company saw a 10-fold increase in revenue. Where to Find the Low-Hanging Fruit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

million apps as of July 2015. A snapshot of the data produced in the first phase of the research program known as the Millionaire Index reveals that a total of 1,887 app developers and companies have already generated $1 million in revenues from a mix of app purchases and in-app purchases in the last 12 months.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 14, 2018

Collaborative tools like Dropbox and Slack benefit from built-in virality , where teams adopt them together – and they represent a tidal wave of software products that truly understand the relationships between people. Adam: You joined Uber in 2015, so the company and user base were already extremely large. Hope you enjoy! -A].

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue. It opens a new school every 2.5 days, and aims to teach 10 million children over the next decade.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

You know it’s important to weigh the costs and benefits before committing resources. Decrease administrative costs as a percentage of revenue by 3 points. How can you generate more revenue? Don’t look only at specific revenue or cost line items, because revenue and costs are closely linked.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large. Far from bad news, this is actually great for revitalizing industries and benefiting consumers. There is no Plan B.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

Prime, which normally costs $99 annually, includes benefits such as free two-day shipping, same-day delivery in some areas, streaming video, streaming music, Kindle library, photo storage, and early access to sales. In FY14, for example, Amazon had an impressive $89 billion in revenues. So why do we care? So why do we care?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As a point of comparison, Hasbro — an 87-year-old company — has annual revenues of $4 billion. Bruce Brown used this phrase to describe how P&G will achieve its stated goal of serving 5 billion consumers by the year 2015 (an increase of 800 million from today). So P&G has to create a new Hasbro, every year. The Red Dot."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. ” Investors are paying attention.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. And despite government revenues having been hit hard in Angola, medical device companies are still selling expensive equipment to the ministry of health.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects. The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S. million citizens who are currently unemployed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

This gap between insurers and customers can be widened into a gulf by trust brokers, who dominate the top-heavy insurance brokerage market and benefit from its opacity and byzantine operating standards. In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. obstetrics, orthopedics, cardiac care) that could benefit from consolidation. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

A recent survey of 22 Latin America-focused executives conducted by my firm, Frontier Strategy Group , found that, on average, corporate sales performance in Brazil declined by 6% in USD between 2014 and 2015—and the near-term future does not look any brighter. Strategy 2: Localize Your Business. times EBITDA.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

billion in revenue in 2013. Michelin is a huge company in a relatively mature industry, but it has still managed to nearly double its free cash flow since 2015, to €1.509 billion ($1.75 billion) in 2017 compared to €833 million in 2015. The results have been impressive. By 2017 it had grown organically to $12.79

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3 A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5 Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Inclusive prosperity is the idea that the opportunity and benefits of economic growth should be widely shared by all segments of society. metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Most cities fall well short of that ideal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

household participates in 29 different loyalty programs, according to the 2015 Colloquy Loyalty Census. The Benefits of Disruption. Early adopters could benefit considerably. Loyalty programs have long relied on cobranded cards and partnerships to sell points and generate incremental revenue. The average U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The country remains reliant on oil revenue, though sanctions have hastened economic diversification: 37.5% of government revenue was derived from energy in the first half of FY 16. Thus Iran is collecting less oil revenue than anticipated two and a half years ago, limiting public spending. How to Plan for Doing Business in Iran.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Gazelles – companies that show 20 percent revenue growth annually for four consecutive years, starting from a revenue base of at least $1 million – may be scarce on the landscape, but they are incredibly productive. The fastest-growing 1 percent of firms generate 40 percent of new jobs in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

trillion in 2015, a 6.5% Numerous studies have touted the benefits of “ strategic renewal.” Do some pleasure reading – splurge on a magazine or a thriller at the airport newsstand (indeed, according to Airport Revenue News , the average passenger spends nearly $11 at the airport). increase over last year.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits. Under increasing scrutiny, and mindful of the benefits of diversity on the bottom line, many companies are trying to recruit and retain a more diverse workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Saudi Arabia’s vast global role on oil markets as a major producer, exporter, and decision-maker within OPEC is reciprocal; the country relies on oil exports for over 90% of its government revenue, making the Saudi budget, and hence the state itself, exceptionally dependent on this one source of revenue. Will the reforms work?

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Revenue Government Energy Scaling 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Like money, it can flow easily across borders and it commands an intrinsic value — the insight generated from personal data helps deliver benefits to individuals, businesses, and governments alike. Understand how regulation alters the data cost-benefit analysis. Personal data is the new currency of the digital economy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

electrical regulation, streamlining hundreds of conflicting regional rules, would allow plug-and-play solar in the future—and foster business competition that benefits Americans. solar in 2015. Economic benefits would also go to companies. retailers with a new source of sales revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Millions of dollars in new revenue have been generated in less than three years. Consider Barclays and two examples of intrapreneurs from programs run by the bank in 2013 and 2015. The results, while proprietary, have nonetheless been substantial. I wanted the opportunity to build a new business I was so passionate about.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. million just five years ago, because young people adopted Uber instead of taxis, hurting taxi revenues. index funds). How much disruption could Wall Street be facing?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Our study (published in the journal Energy Economics ) quantified the costs and benefits of retraining coal workers for employment in the rapidly expanding solar photovoltaic industry—and it explores different ways to pay for this retraining. First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

While the interests in analytics and resulting benefits are increasing by the day, some businesses are challenged by the complexity and confusion that analytics can generate. With this data-driven approach, the company was able to target customers more effectively and boost its revenues. • Data discovery.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns. It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016. But the talent that some of these areas house can provide benefits for technology start-ups that go beyond simply cutting costs and offering low-skill work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The integrated carrier gets incremental revenues from its excess capacity. For example, in 2015, Maersk and MSC, the world’s two largest liner shipping companies, established 2M, a 10-year vessel sharing agreement covering 193 vessels. Another risk is the opportunity cost of not benefiting from lower investment costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. There are benefits to this kind of participation even if companies don’t make significant technology contributions of their own.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As world leaders gathered in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, I spoke with Eccles about the effort to provide nonfinancial information with the same level of accounting rigor as traditional reports—and what that would mean for the global effort to build a sustainable economy. It’s been slow going.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In 2015, for example, small food and beverage manufacturers drove nearly half of category growth , while the top 25 manufacturers could only take credit for 3%. While these numbers indicate an underlying issue with all new product development, there’s more at stake with premium products because of their higher revenue potential.

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