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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). They decide quickly what to invest in, and then draw on their strengths to make these investments efficiently, effectively, repeatedly, and at scale. November 2016).

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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.

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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

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.

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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. Arguably, the surge in business for mobile wallets was natural, at least for the 17% of the population that owned a smartphone in early 2016. instead of 7%.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. We’ll still have very large companies where network effects and economies of scale or scope continue to support the concentration of economic activity. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Well, not exactly.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

This would create new sources of revenue, improve communities, and offer new jobs and skill sets to employees who used to ring cash registers, stock shelves, or mop floors. In 2016 Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani, decided to give 10% of his yogurt company in stock to his 2,000 employees. That isn’t true.

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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.

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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. The approach is now being scaled across the organization. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a 2016 report from the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel , water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030. According to the World Bank , the world loses about 25-35% of water due to leaks and bursts, and the annual value of this non-revenue water — water produced and lost by utilities — is $14 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

A Hidden Champion is defined by three criteria: 1) a company has to be among the top three in the world in its industry, and first on its continent; 2) its revenue must be below €5 billion; and 3) it should be little known to the general public. Because while Hidden Champions may be small, they compete on a global scale.

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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. health systems. This decline parallels the decline in HMO enrollment.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. This was gauged by assessing the percent of revenue outside the core that can be attributed to new growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Once sales reach levels that impress the C-Suite, justifying an investment in factories is no longer risky or difficult; for example Amway relied on third party manufacturing for its initial entry and once volumes reached sufficient scale, it invested in a 50-acre facility in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu.

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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. They really wanted the opportunity to show off to the rest of the world and demonstrate that they, too, could host such a large-scale international event.

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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.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Bloomberg reports 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. It would only take 5% of coal company revenue from a single year to provide “scholarships” to their workers to fully pay for the retraining they would need to move to solar.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. Think like a large-scale entrepreneur. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day. Here are several lessons that leaders of legacy companies can draw from GE’s transformation: 1.

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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

APRIL 9, 2018

In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. Leveraging core competencies or scaling faster than competitors are important when faced with new technological breakthroughs.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Billpoint made the mistake of emphasizing revenue generation at the start rather than, first, attracting a critical mass of participants. For an in-depth look at platform strategy, see the authors’ HBR article “ Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy ” in the April 2016 issue. Failure of imagination.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

They are paying up for strong business models with scale and access to valuable new markets, users, and distribution capabilities. Facebook paid what looked like astronomic prices for both given the companies’ minute, and in Instagram’s case nonexistent, revenue. Defensive Moats. Users in Different Ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

There were more than 5,000 craft breweries in the United States alone in 2016, compared with 1,400 a decade ago, according to Statista. But the industry continues to face significant and persistent challenges related to ad revenues, as well as labor and production costs and shifting consumer demand.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

DJI generates 30% of its revenues from China, the US, and Europe, respectively, and 10% from South America. In 2016, DJI had 1,500 people in R&D , or 40% of a workforce of 4,000 – a luxury only available to a company that can tap into low-cost engineering talent. In 2017, DJI’s sales were around $2.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples). This is a remarkable achievement for a company that was only in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples). This is a remarkable achievement for a company that was only in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Stratasys and 3D Systems grew into industry leaders with approximately $1 billion in revenues each. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

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