Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Every industry is built around some traditional assumptions, behaviors, and beliefs about how to create value (whether that means revenues, profits, or investor returns). So how do you evolve an outdated business model to one that offers better revenue growth, greater profit margins, and lower cost? Start with yourself.

Digital Transformation 14

Digital Transformation Assets Metrics Revenue 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

We believe this segment could generate meaningful revenue in the near term. Included within this Industrial category are numerous sectors, from transportation to health care to oil and gas, each of which will be affected.

Transportation 15

Transportation Revenue Energy Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing. Uber was not only giving you an excellent on-demand transportation experience, but it was also deploying drivers who would be otherwise sitting idle in their black cars waiting for pre-arranged pickups.

Transportation 13

Transportation Assets Engineering Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

In the Babson Executive Education analysis of 635 global companies, just under a third of companies with 1-10% growth preferred experimentation over other methodologies, such as statistical analysis, to identify revenue and operational improvement opportunities. Experiments usually don't lead to fruitful results.

Transportation 15

Transportation Strategic Planning Education Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry.

Transportation 15

Transportation Assets Marketing Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In fact, authorities working on multilateral guidelines for digital economy taxation recently pushed off deciding, until 2020 , some fundamental questions regarding a company’s place of business and revenue characterization in a digital world. This is expected as the costs of manufacturing, transportation and other inputs decline.)

Assets 12

Assets Revenue ROI Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Amazon, for example, has learned that same-day delivery could increase revenues significantly, and it is also aware that new insurgent start-ups such as Instacart and WunWun are focusing on the instant delivery of certain products, so it has invested in its own delivery fleet, drone technology and more.

Scaling 15

Scaling Revenue Transportation Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Airlines are arguably more operationally complex, asset-intensive, and regulated than hospitals, yet the best performers are doing a better job by far than most hospitals at keeping costs low and make a decent profit while delivering what their customers expect. katyau/Getty Images. These examples are relevant to health care for two reasons.

Hospitality 8

Hospitality Transportation Assets Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. ” We are in the midst of a massive migration in business models, from managing assets and delivering services to creating technologies and orchestrating networks.

Metrics 15

Metrics Travel Assets Digital Transformation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The aggregate impact on jobs and revenues will not be noticeable in the context of the huge U.S. RFID tags were the first wave of IoT implementation and are already playing a large role in locating inventories, vehicles, people, and assets. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate. labor pool.

Marketing 12

Marketing Transportation Travel Assets 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

AirBnB, now used by 50,000 renters each night, is considered to be directly responsible for an estimated $450 million of lost hotel revenue each year. As Marshall Van Alstyne, Geoffrey Parker, and Sangeet Choudary articulated recently in HBR , “With a platform, the critical asset is the community and the resources of its members.”

Hospitality 13

Hospitality Administration Transportation Fixed Costs 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Nestlé announced plans to cut its staff in some central African countries, while Barclays’s new CEO is considering selling off the bank’s Africa assets. And despite government revenues having been hit hard in Angola, medical device companies are still selling expensive equipment to the ministry of health.

Marketing 14

Marketing Government Transportation Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

and c) If the mechanisms by which the foreign tax rate has been lowered involved depriving foreign governments of their tax revenues, should the U.S. In an age of digitization, transport costs are trivial and activity can be relocated anywhere quickly. more competitive and capture more revenue? Second, the fact that the U.S.

Revenue 10

Revenue Transportation Government Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

But import duties, taxes, transportation costs, and slow supply chains can cause the market size to be very limited in India with such an approach. While sourcing locally can reduce costs, new entrants also need creative ways to build revenues from India. Drop product prices and boost volume growth.

Marketing 13

Marketing Sales Sales Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Proximity to public transportation allows for greater access to jobs, as well as other amenities like schools and daycare, which are often critical to an individual’s support system. This requires taking a fresh look at all assets and how they are used. Design for inclusion.

Inclusion 20

Inclusion Real Estate Marketing Diversity 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In the late ‘90s, with the Internet’s commercial revolution in its first heyday, my colleague Dick Harrington was running the Thomson Corporation, a holding company with substantial assets in newspapers. It was everyone taking aim at newspapers’ revenue sources — classifieds, display ads, job postings.

Advertising 12

Advertising Transportation Marketing Assets 12

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. In transportation, for example, on-demand options have roiled the market, and traditional taxis are fighting back, belatedly, with apps such as Arro and Way2Ride.

Assets 8

Assets Transportation Revenue Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

For every 10 percent increase in customer satisfaction, companies increase revenue by 7%. In 2017, German transport company Reinert Logistics implemented an employee app with their workforce, of which 83% of employees are non-desk workers. Reduce Wasted Time and Boost Revenue Per Employee. Decision Makers Are Providing Proof.

Employee Communications 8

Employee Communications Revenue Employee Engagement Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Historically, the resources sector followed a dig-and-deliver model, where success was mainly about the size and quality of assets. Demand for resources grew in line with the economy, and it paid to have the best and most expandable asset. For example, the oil industry depended on having the most plentiful reserves.

Energy 8

Energy Assets Engineering Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Its employees and investors don’t depend on an existing revenue stream. Uber ignored all of these requirements and reinvented local transportation by offering a more convenient service. Every Airbnb rental is a lost night of revenue for the hotels that hate it. PayPal , acquired by eBay for $1.5

Banking 8

Banking Revenue Inclusion Government 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software.

Software 8

Software Scaling Assets Government 8

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 17, 2024

For example, companies like Adobe have adopted subscription models enabled by software-as-a-service to change revenue streams. By leveraging a mobile app, GPS technology, and a decentralized network of drivers, Uber offers a more convenient and flexible alternative to traditional taxi services, transforming the transportation industry.

Digital Transformation 93

Digital Transformation Operations Implementation Media 93

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 19, 2022

from 1986 to 1991, tripling that Firm’s revenues to nearly $200 million and delivering more than $30 million in profit. This section of the book on how to deal with negative publicity is written by Jonathan Dedmon of T he Dilenschneider Group. Invariably, a company or organization will experience bad news, resulting in negative publicity.

Real Estate 74

Real Estate Media Transportation Revenue 74

Chief Executive

JANUARY 27, 2023

The biggest movers were makers of electrical equipment and components, chemicals and transportation equipment. For most companies, 20 percent of SKUs generate 80 percent of the revenues, so focus on those.” Job announcements for reshoring initiatives and foreign direct investment in U.S. Indeed, U.S.

Operations 98

Operations Transportation Government Marketing 98

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. Each row represented a different city, with columns for revenue, total trips, and their week-over-week change.

Scaling 63

Scaling Metrics Revenue Operations 63

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

Energy 15

Energy Transportation Real Estate Software 15

Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This project and others are contributing to continued growth across industries, including transportation and warehousing. growth has pushed state revenues more than $1.4 Rare Earth invested $100 million in a manufacturing facility in Stillwater, and Air Transport Components is establishing a new MRO facility in Tulsa.

Energy 52

Energy Transportation Strategic Planning Engineering 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

But it only makes the ROA problem worse: companies end up burdened with more unspent cash and a bigger block of dead, unproductive assets. And if corporations convert too many assets from the working and business economies into pure capital, then the whole system seizes up for lack of fuel.

Assets 8

Assets Balance Sheet Operations A/B Testing 8

AIHR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Commission-based employment This arrangement bases a worker’s compensation primarily on the sales or revenue they generate. Examples include an external management consultant who advises companies on improving efficiency or a cybersecurity consultant who helps organizations protect their digital assets. Benefits: Self-determined.

Insurance 98

Insurance Staffing Compensation Benefits 98

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Most of them focus on digitalization specifically and on communications technology, though some attention continues to be paid to transportation infrastructure (e.g., Despite this shift, a significant number of experts continue to believe in the virtually unlimited potential of globalization. Parag Khanna’s Connectography ).

Transportation 13

Transportation Software Digital Transformation Government 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

If another trillion dollars is to be invested and the core purpose is to increase the competitiveness of employers and the quality of life of residents, then projects with a large benefit/cost ratio around transportation, energy, and water will likely be the focus. These kinds of considerations should be addressed in the package.

Banking 12

Banking Assets Real Estate Government 12

UVA Darden

MARCH 25, 2025

Carried interest dates back to 16th century maritime commerce, where ships would transport (carry) cargo to international ports and captains would retain a 20% share of the profit from the goods they delivered. This proposed change to carried interest would generate revenue that could be used to offset some of the proposed tax reductions.

Compensation 52

Compensation Assets Revenue Government 52