Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. For example, in January 2016, Saudi Arabia announced far-reaching cutbacks of domestic subsidies for energy and water, a political no-go area for politicians across the region only a few years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. 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

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 15

Banking B2C eCommerce Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. The country remains reliant on oil revenue, though sanctions have hastened economic diversification: 37.5% companies can’t do business there.

Banking 15

Banking Revenue Compliance Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. Fall of 2016 marked the first convening of the ALD Revenue Growth Challenge event. American Express. Johnson & Johnson.

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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.

Travel 15

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

While our first instinct might be to help employees find new jobs, what we really need to do is help companies shift into new markets focused on human services and adopt new business models that will allow employees, customers, and communities to benefit from technological change. This is already beginning to happen. That isn’t true.

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Transportation Energy Education Nonprofit 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher. And despite government revenues having been hit hard in Angola, medical device companies are still selling expensive equipment to the ministry of health. Companies that want to benefit from the positive development path of some markets will have to adjust their strategies accordingly.

Marketing 15

Marketing Government Transportation Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In early 2016 economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published an influential paper that highlighted some of the costs of global trade. If trade’s “winners” compensated the “losers,” everyone could benefit. They reviewed the literature and reported that trade with China had cost the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Ultimately, the shift from defined benefit pension plans to employee-directed defined contribution 401(k)s is the major driver of the impending retirement crisis. In addition, less than four years from now, Social Security costs are projected to begin exceeding revenues until that program’s Trust Fund is fully depleted in 2034.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Now, 45 years later, “FedEx” is a verb and the company gainfully employs 168,000 high-productivity employees to service the $50 billion per year in revenues its equilibrium transformer generates. However, small businesses also destroy the most jobs every year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

One young female banker we interviewed for our 2016 report “Women in Financial Services” even told us, “I came into my career in financial services with aspirations to make it to the top. In short, women in financial services face a tougher career trade-off of higher costs and lower expected benefits.

Banking 15

Banking Revenue Human Resources Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. They wanted to improve revenue, cost, risk, and customer satisfaction all at the same time. million in annual benefit. Our work with hundreds of companies offers a clear and simple answer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

Marketing 15

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies.

Software 15

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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. This decline parallels the decline in HMO enrollment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. This results in “title bloat” (e.g., “CFOs” that don’t manage investments and negotiate payer or supply contracts but merely supervise revenue cycle activities, do budgeting, etc.).

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Hospitality Manager Nonprofit Staffing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

This illustrates one of the strategic benefits of platforms: Once established, they are hard to dislodge. What if disruption comes instead — as I outline in the April 2016 issue of HBR — from the supply side? Exit from a platform usually requires customers to leave in a coordinated fashion. How did it do this?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In fact, Bloomberg reported that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation. Economic benefits would also go to companies. retailers with a new source of sales revenue. As I previously wrote , the U.S.

Energy 15

Energy Marketing Transportation Sales 15

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. A 2016 analysis of more than 20,000 firms in 91 countries found that companies with more female executives were more profitable. Success has so far been marginal.

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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.

Energy 15

Energy Engineering Government Administration 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

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. The Philippines has a huge business process outsourcing industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

To enter the Indian market with more profitability, multinational companies would benefit by creative use of the country’s supply chain and the explosive growth of its online channel. While sourcing locally can reduce costs, new entrants also need creative ways to build revenues from India. E-Commerce as a Viable Entry Pathway.

Marketing 15

Marketing Sales Sales Transportation 15

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. in the next years.

Marketing 15

Marketing Advertising Media Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Provisional standards for all 79 industries will be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2016. Ultimately regulation will be needed in order to create the system-level benefits that standards make possible. The standards are appropriate for global use; 40% of the downloads from the SASB website are from overseas visitors.

Accounts 15

Accounts Assets Insurance Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

It will mean less health insurance for individuals; less coverage for elderly and poor Americans; less revenue for doctors, hospitals, and myriad health care businesses; and, quite possibly, a less-healthy, less-productive workforce. in national health spending overall from 2006 to 2016. from 2014 to 2023.

Insurance 9

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

Walmart announced today that it is raising its starting wages in the United States from $9 per hour to $11, giving employees one-time cash bonuses of as much as $1,000, and expanding maternity and parental leave benefits as a result of the recently enacted tax reform. In 2016 the average employee turnover in retail was 65%.

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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. Consider Facebook: its value increases as more people use its product because the benefits accrue to an existing user with the arrival of each new user. billion and $0.8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Given our positive partnerships thus far, we embraced this opportunity and partnered with Cadence in 2012, using our shared revenue and expense model. The committee recently held a half-day retreat to develop a three-year plan for the program and set strategic priorities for 2016. Willingness to compromise.

Hospitality 15

Hospitality Staffing Metrics Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games are opening in Rio de Janeiro amid environmental and health concerns ranging from the Zika virus to polluted competition waters. I think Bostonians saw that the costs and the risks far outweighed the benefits. You believe that the Olympic business model is outdated.

Travel 15

Travel Scaling Operations Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. The results showed that $50 oil puts some producing countries under considerable stress as they grapple with less oil revenue in their national budgets. This was a characteristic move.

Energy 15

Energy Marketing Operations Administration 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B This is just the sort of problem that can benefit from machine intelligence. 4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016. . $5 trillion to U.S. $7 7 trillion by the year 2025 from about U.S.$300 300 billion today. Finally, A.T.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In 2015, for instance, he raised the base employee wage by 33%, to $16 an hour, and introduced an enhanced benefit program for employees with household incomes under 300% of the federal poverty level, potentially saving them thousands per year in health care costs. CEOs have a great deal of control over the financial targets they set.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 Publicis now gets 50% of its revenue from digital—that’s ahead of its 2018 target. times Vormetric’s sales.

Assets 8

Assets Advertising Digital Transformation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This approach offers two benefits to Amazon. But if it were implemented today , the cost of collecting and handling returned items would outweigh the increase in revenue from a greater share-of-wallet. If this is a better business model, then why hasn’t Amazon done it already? Well, they’re working on it.

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Revenue Engineering Media Implementation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

DJI generates 30% of its revenues from China, the US, and Europe, respectively, and 10% from South America. DJI benefits from the Shenzhen manufacturing ecosystem and produces drones at a very low cost. Having a manufacturing ecosystem confers several benefits. But this should not distract from the long-term benefits for U.S.

Engineering 8

Engineering Telecommunications Marketing Sales 8