Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. Next, they need to connect — but keep separate — their new ventures from their core businesses so that they have assets but none of the liabilities that would slow them down.

Scaling 15

Scaling Engineering Transportation Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Their business model advantages are clear — the "fleet" renews itself naturally, there are no parking or logistics issues, geographic expansion and scaling is more seamless. Furthermore, these "peer economy" marketplaces transcend the simple trade conducted on eBay, and are instead inventing an entirely new asset-light supply paradigm.

Assets 13

Assets Reorganization Transportation Insurance 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Today, Sunil Suri offers a way to scale Class-A housing in densely populated areas. Cost compression comes from: sheer scale of the number of units being produced (the US just does not have the population density, whereas India, China, Mexico, Brazil, do). building first in a factory, which is highly automated.

Transportation 16

Transportation Real Estate Energy Scaling 16

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

JUNE 30, 2016

If you want your business to grow sustainably at scale, you need to figure out how to make big investments that will best differentiate you in your core. When it comes to investments, here’s a general truth: the larger a company gets, the smaller it thinks. The result? Consistent mediocrity.

Scaling 15

Scaling Revenue Transportation Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

In addition, these labs are often physically secluded from the operational centers of the business, so transporting ideas from the lab to where they are needed on the ground is a problem. Deploy organizational resources and assets to give employees the time and space to experiment with their ideas.

Transportation 15

Transportation Strategic Planning Education Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

We have argued in previous work that the Industrial Internet and Advanced Manufacturing are not only transforming individual machines and systems, but they are also changing the nature of economies of scale, transforming the economic landscape and blurring the lines between manufacturing and services.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Assets Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

They’ve organized, scaled, and automated the myriad administrative details involved in such a way as to minimize the barrier to entry and limit the potential for error, miscommunication, or unwarranted variation. Networked knowledge. Last year they ran a one-day pilot to deliver 2,000 flu shots over four hours in 35 cities.

Hospitality 12

Hospitality Administration Transportation Fixed Costs 12

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. Leverage scale and cost efficiencies and export products to neighboring countries. One way to mitigate these costs and appeal to a larger customer base is to manufacture in India.

Marketing 12

Marketing Sales Sales Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

RFID tags were the first wave of IoT implementation and are already playing a large role in locating inventories, vehicles, people, and assets. Now within services we are seeing a shift from physical services (like transportation) to information-intensive services (like financial services and digital-content delivery). Insight Center.

Marketing 11

Marketing Transportation Travel Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization. The Uber-Didi deal reminds us that before your global strategy takes a platform-based approach, there are at least five questions to ask yourself: How asset-light is the proposed approach really? So even in the world of platforms there are speed limits.

Assets 11

Assets Administration Marketing Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. Take, for example, providers of cloud-based web services, which give young companies access to scale benefits and flexibility previously unavailable to them. But this inclusive approach may require some uncomfortable choices.

Inclusion 14

Inclusion Education Scaling Benefits 14

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. Even though Nigeria is the region’s largest oil exporter, it emerges as resilient because its economy is far more diversified than commonly assumed.

Marketing 14

Marketing Government Transportation Operations 14

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 19

Inclusion Real Estate Marketing Diversity 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Will their appreciation scale along with our business? How best to draw actionable inspiration from Grove?

User Experience 13

User Experience Metrics Benchmarking Transportation 13

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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The answer is not to just polish up branding and marketing materials and wait for the next Amazon-scale business attraction opportunity. Rather, cities need to look closely at the criteria in Amazon’s RFP and ask whether they’ve done enough to build up the fundamental assets prized by innovative firms and industries.

Assets 8

Assets Diversity Transportation Education 8

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. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images. On July 1, 2017, all of those seventeen taxes were subsumed into one tax: the GST.

Digital Transformation 15

Digital Transformation Banking Government Inclusion 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. M is Mass, in this case all the things, people, and assets of your ecosystem. By adding connections and co-creation, we multiply the ability of these assets to create value.

Assets 8

Assets Software Balance Sheet Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy. Is blockchain appropriate?

Digital Transformation 8

Digital Transformation Transportation Insurance Compliance 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. Economies of scale are certainly part of the answer. Network effects, or “demand-side economies of scale,” are another likely culprit. Why, then, did Apple prevail?

Software 8

Software Scaling Assets Government 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Uber ignored all of these requirements and reinvented local transportation by offering a more convenient service. In the 20th century, companies worried about increasing their market share, profit margins, return on investment, and return on net assets. PayPal , acquired by eBay for $1.5 Companies Can Do Anything Legal.

Banking 8

Banking Revenue Inclusion Government 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Where the custodian is the guardian of data, products and services are co-created with customers, rather than for customers, and business expansion is scaled through the products ecosystem. They can do this by using data as a strategic asset — shifting from hindsight to foresight. Read More from Microsoft.

Travel 8

Travel Digital Transformation Transportation Media 8

AIHR

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A human resources (HR) strategy is a comprehensive plan to effectively manage its people assets in alignment with its overall business objectives. This step helps you identify where to allocate resources most effectively, taking into account cost-benefit analysis and the activities to strengthen, initiate, scale back, or eliminate.

Compensation 119

Compensation Diversity Human Resources Inclusion 119

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. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete. Colorful flags from every country hung from the ceiling.

Scaling 63

Scaling Metrics Revenue Operations 63

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Getting to 1.5

Scaling 15

Scaling Government Energy Transportation 15

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Add work time lost due to travel; cultural norms requiring that people travel together; the expense of transportation; and a general lack of awareness about the value of correcting eyesight problems, and the French eyeglass company Essilor was faced with a perfect storm of what we call external constraints.

Marketing 16

Marketing Travel Transportation Hospitality 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Cyber threats are growing in intensity and scale. The public and private sectors need to work together to protect critical assets with confidence and trust — helping manage the risks we know, and getting ahead of those we don''t. media companies. There are two primary areas of concern. Certainly, the environment is complex.

Government 9

Government Risk Management Telecommunications Assets 9

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. The speed and scale on which this is occurring helps us recognize that we are not in a cyclical downturn as corporations attempt to compensate for the disruptive impact of digital technology.

Assets 8

Assets Balance Sheet Operations A/B Testing 8

AIHR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Examples include an external management consultant who advises companies on improving efficiency or a cybersecurity consultant who helps organizations protect their digital assets. Salary format: Fixed or hourly, or a stipend to cover basic costs such as transportation for paid internships. Salary format: A stipend or low salary.

Insurance 98

Insurance Staffing Compensation Benefits 98