Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In this next chapter, the Philippines — the world’s second-fastest growing economy — will play a crucial role in helping tech companies access the talent to scale efficiently and sustainably. It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016.

SaaS 15

SaaS B2B Scaling Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees.

Recruitment 16

Recruitment Compliance Inclusion Staffing 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Oil and gas export revenues are the principal source of export income in the GCC, accounting for over 90% of total export revenues in countries such as Qatar and Kuwait, and well above 85% in Saudi Arabia. of GDP in 2015 and 2016. After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% in 2015 and 3.2%

Revenue 13

Revenue Government Energy Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5 There’s no one-size-fits-all AI solution.

Scaling 15

Scaling Implementation Digital Transformation ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. What other factors account for Silicon Valley’s growing divergence from the Cambridge-Boston area during the last 20 years? Lured by Silicon Valley’s ability to help the company scale up faster, he and his team moved to the Bay Area.

Software 12

Software Scaling Digital Transformation Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. Many of them have been growing at a ferocious pace.

Revenue 15

Revenue Hospitality Marketing Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them. While the actual value of the currency deposited is still to be formally accounted for, there is little doubt that most of the invalidated currency was returned.

Banking 14

Banking Government Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. Offer access to flexible spending accounts, and educate employees on how to use them. FSA accounts are a generous benefit. Photo by Mike Wilson. This is not news.

Banking 15

Banking Travel Education Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Sadly, however, given the daunting business survival statistics, most businesses never get an opportunity to scale up. Of those few that do begin to scale, the effort to scale up often fails to last, and the all-too-familiar roller-coaster of life in business heads, or threatens to head, downhill.

Scaling 12

Scaling Media Revenue Software 12

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. Since then, the government has created more than 300 million new, no-frills bank accounts.

Digital Transformation 15

Digital Transformation Banking Government Inclusion 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Just last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning to banks about a pending large scale attack known as an ATM “cash-out” strike, in which waves of synchronized fraudulent withdrawals drain bank accounts. Yet a much broader and more debilitating attack isn’t farfetched.

Banking 15

Banking Assets Risk Management Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

While there is little prospect for political reform on a wider scale — Saudi Arabia is and remains a traditional monarchy with limited public participation in policymaking — the current reform process is an important one, and one indicative of the sort of the socio-economic challenges the Gulf oil producers increasingly face.

Revenue 11

Revenue Government Energy Scaling 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In 2016, HubSpot published a research study showing that a majority of Internet users dislike most forms of pop-ups and mobile ads and see online advertisement as intrusive and negatively disruptive. In 2016, Google is reported to have generated an average of $73 per active user via ads. Ending the Google-Facebook Advertising Duopoly.

Marketing 14

Marketing Advertising Media Compensation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

So far in 2016, the value of the two new companies has reversed the decline, giving investors hope that the founder’s mentality is back. Put another way, why is it that so many companies age and mature badly, bureaucratizing and becoming disoriented in the marketplace, while others of similar scale keep or regain their mojo?

Assets 14

Assets Energy Scaling Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

By July 2016, virtually every Indian had a mobile telephone and access to text messaging, primarily using 2G technology. In this environment, a new 4G only player has entered in 2016 with an initial investment of $20 billion in network and market infrastructure. population.

Banking 14

Banking B2C eCommerce Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. We took these learnings into account when we launched the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA).

Hospitality 14

Hospitality Diversity Project Management User Experience 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The first and most obvious impediment to widespread adoption of episodes as the unit of accounting, analysis, and payment is the inherent threat it represents to all those who benefit from fee-for-service payment. Today, it continues to prevent the large-scale move to bundled payments. Slowed by Inertia and Poor Wiring.

Hospitality 12

Hospitality Transportation Administration Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Even as organic supermarkets grew in scale and popularity, they were reluctant to stock organic wine. Whole Foods Market, which by 2010 accounted for over one half of organic food sales in the United States, did little to promote organic wines. While 6% of the wine sold at Systembolaget in 2011 was organic, by 2016 it was over 20%.

Marketing 14

Marketing Scaling Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > In a new study , Glassdoor data scientist Morgan Smart and I looked at more than 5,000 job transitions from a sample of thousands of résumés shared by job seekers on Glassdoor from 2007 to 2016. Others were employees who moved to a new role and left for a new employer.

Recruitment 15

Recruitment Compensation Retention Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Our research has shown that 85% of the major barriers that successful companies like Uber face in scaling their business are internal factors — loss of accountability, increasing distance from the front lines, and overload — not external ones like poor markets or ineffective strategies.

Energy 15

Energy Revenue Marketing Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” There, in the shadow of Google’s global headquarters, the audience laughed on cue, quickly grokking the embarrassing point: it’s 2016 and this $3 trillion industry that our lives depend upon still relies on faxes, clipboards, and isolated instances of legacy software locked away in hospital basements.

Hospitality 12

Hospitality Administration Transportation Fixed Costs 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

organizations in 2016 alone, most often through hacking or external theft. For an example of competitor harm due to these spillover effects, consider the July 2012 Nvidia data breach, which affected 400,000 user accounts. Osman Rana/Hayon Thapaliya/Unsplash. Cyberattacks are on the rise, with over 1,000 data breaches occurring at U.S.

Marketing 14

Marketing Implementation Benefits Recruitment 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Pursuit of scale for the sake of scale risks devaluing the quality of the typical patent even further. The 13 th Five-Year Plan intends to double the number again to 1.8

Government 12

Government Scaling Engineering Education 12

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. Recent research lets us make an even bolder claim: accounting earnings are practically irrelevant for digital companies. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Revenue Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.

Revenue 15

Revenue Metrics Accounts Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Since the beginning of 2016, the financial performance of hospitals and health systems in the United States has significantly worsened. MD Anderson Cancer Center lost $266 million on operations in FY 2016 and another $170 million in the first months of FY 2017. health systems. This decline parallels the decline in HMO enrollment.

Hospitality 8

Hospitality Insurance Cash Flow Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

But most banks simply found that found that margins and profits in foreign markets where they lacked scale or sufficient local knowledge were lower than returns on domestic business. In 2005, the United States absorbed 67% of all net global capital flows; by 2016, that share had fallen by half.

Banking 8

Banking Assets Balance Sheet Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Contracted services account for significant fractions of all hospitals’ operating expenses. Yet whether economies of scale truly exist in hospital operations remains questionable. The result: hospitals lost $49 billion in 2016 treating Medicare patients, a number that’s surely higher now.

Hospitality 14

Hospitality Manager Nonprofit Staffing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

This data was then scaled to give each company a score between zero and one for each metric, with the worst performing companies getting a score of zero and the best performing companies getting a score of one. It was not possible to analyze countries outside of these regions due to differences in accounting regulation. and Europe.

Biotech 15

Biotech Telecommunications Travel Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

This has big implications for businesses, entrepreneurs, and innovators seeking growth beyond their home markets: there just isn’t a one-size-fits-all app or approach to building scale in the global digital economy. What is the ability to transact online? Do people have access to financial networks that enable cashless transactions?

Benchmarking 13

Benchmarking Inclusion Banking Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. A third of VC investments in Europe were focused on the UK in the first quarter of 2016, according to CBInsights. Scaling Up Will be Harder Without Common Platforms and a Single Market. billion as compared to $4.4

Marketing 12

Marketing Software Scaling Hospitality 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. With 30 teams and 1,230 games in a regular season stretching from October into April, trillions of scheduling options were possible.

Travel 8

Travel Operations Accounts Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. The committee recently held a half-day retreat to develop a three-year plan for the program and set strategic priorities for 2016.

Hospitality 12

Hospitality Staffing Metrics Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Accordingly, in the latter half of 2016, CenturyLink made a small investment in an AI-powered sales assistant made by Conversica to see if it could help the company identify hot leads without hiring an expensive army of sales reps to comb through the leads. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

Sales 8

Sales Sales Marketing Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In 2016, the staff at Rotterdam Eye Hospital gave the annual training sessions an 8.7 on a 10-point scale. In 2016, MediQuest, an independent research firm, surveyed 850 of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital’s patients to obtain a Net Promoter Score (NPS). Initial results — for patients and staff — are very promising.

Hospitality 8

Hospitality Operations Scaling Administration 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Without Ghosn, the Nissan-Renault alliance is likely to falter — leaving two small auto manufacturers without competitive economies of scale. As one accountant based in Japan during 2010, explained , “there was a big rush of inquiries about schemes that might be used either to split out salaries or defer part of it.”

Government 9

Government Compensation Insurance Accounts 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

It isn’t the largest (that would be the 2016 Yahoo breach, with over one billion accounts affected), the most embarrassing (Ashley Madison, the affair website), or the one that raises the most national security concerns (North Korea’s hack of Sony). The Equifax breach is different.

Scaling 8

Scaling Banking Government Accounts 8