Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

While they are aware of the importance of executive presence, multicultural men and women are nonetheless hard-pressed to interpret and embody aspects of a code written by and for white men. EP further eludes multicultural professionals because they’re not likely to get feedback on their “presentation of self.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Our research shows that data breaches sometimes harm a firm’s close rivals (due to spillover effects), but sometimes help them (due to competitive effects). For an example of competitor harm due to these spillover effects, consider the July 2012 Nvidia data breach, which affected 400,000 user accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues.

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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. And SunPower, the second largest U.S. Meanwhile, utilities are not standing idle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise. However, the pace of global business now often precludes doing traditionally rigorous diligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

For example, we maintain a Facebook group for our customers of our inventory control software that allows them to interface directly with our engineers. Regardless the size of your organization, why would any company want to let such a strong potential competitive advantage go? For us, that indicates a positive Return on Investment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Desai , a professor and dean at Harvard Business School, a professor at Harvard Law School, and the author of a 2012 HBR article on taxing businesses , a few questions about how this investigation fits into a larger debate about the corporate tax code. corporate tax code that "has not kept up with the digital age."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The company runs data science competitions, where the goal is to arrive at a better prediction than the submitting organization's starting 'baseline' prediction. Between February and September of 2012 Kaggle hosted two competitions sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation about computer grading of student essays.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Date: January 20, 2012 20:41. Date: January 23, 2012 14:18. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals. The company had very few software engineers. Take insurance, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

According to research presented at the 2012 Audio Branding Congress , congruent sound cues can increase the speed of a visual search for products (a key for success in both online and retail settings), as well as improve the perceived taste of food and wine (PDF). SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2012. SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. Although Zhou had outperformed the financial plan, the gap between 3721’s market position and the local competition was widening. The company subsequently went private in early 2012. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

” In a 2012 article for Harvard Business Review, Maxwell Wessel argued that scale, “one of the last bastions from the competitive storm,” is no longer profitable or safe. For a long time, technology gave big players a competitive advantage because no one else could afford to be big.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

France plans to impose a 20 percent quota by 2012 and double it to 40 percent by 2016 for the country's 2,500 largest companies. These corporations understand that cracking the last glass ceiling will give them a significant competitive advantage in talent markets the world over. But should the U.S. What are your thoughts?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. Last month, the court reversed an eminently sensible 2012 ruling by federal appeals judge Richard A. This is no quaint summer-weekend reenactment. And so Apple has. We need more.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

. “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” As venture capital investor Marc Andreesen pointed out, “software is eating the world.” ” Jeff Immelt, former CEO of General Electric.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Leaders have long recognized that an inherently diverse workforce – one that’s inclusive of women, people of color, and gay individuals – confers a competitive edge in selling products and services to diverse end users. Crack the code of executive presence. Be a more active ally.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Content is free and supplied by consumers who write reviews voluntarily. and EBITDA margins are 47%. Think about that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

from 2012 to 2014. Consider Kaggle , Innocentive and other global competitions designed to bring global talent to bear on provocative problems. But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings. Their winners are typically worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001. It was so close.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

HP is #10 on the 2012 list, and IBM is number 19. Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers. IBM and HP are two amazing companies with long and meaningful histories.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Quite the opposite, as a cooperative owned by dairy farm families, our focus on social and environmental issues has helped our company achieve an indisputable competitive advantage in our marketplace. In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. Didn’t we already “self-monitor” our sustainability initiatives?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

In this article we will present three ways that information-based competition is challenging existing management practices. However, determining what’s core and what’s not core is getting more difficult in an era where information is serving as a basis for competition. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. IBM had a near death experience in the early 1990s due a series of bad business decisions. In 2012 she announced to all the employees a re-expression as “ The HP Way Now.” Does biology inform business?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

The more your competitive advantage depended on maintaining that trade-off between richness and reach, the more vulnerable it would be. But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012. Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. The result was that Apple struggled to create a robust platform connecting Apple customers and software producers. As of 2012, Garmin had sold 100 million units after 23 years in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

billion bid to acquire the Huiyuan Juice Group, the largest such acquisition of a Chinese firm at the time, was derailed when an executive opened a spear-phishing email containing a link to key-logging software. They can also deploy code to hide their entry and exit data from logs, so no one knows they were there.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions. By building a distinctive program for training new hires, and getting the word out about it, an organization today can gain an edge in the competition for top talent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

In fairness to companies and compensation consultants, academics have likewise struggled to crack the code of team- and individual-based recognition and reward systems. The company had been using “employee of the month” awards since May 2012 for a subset of teams.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

billion in 2012 to $4.6 My company was an early adopter, purchasing our first social ads in 2012. Messages can even be aimed at specific brands and their respective followers, enabling businesses to go directly after the competition and its client base. Meanwhile, Promoted Tweets have shownengagement rates of 1% to 3%.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

What this high percentage means is that on the most popular social media platforms — LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter — you’re already vying with your competition for the same pool of expertise. In a 2012 online survey of 2,000 people born after 1981, 88% of people reported that humor is essential to their sense of self.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. It''s a learning curve that most other large companies have not yet faced. million apiece on it last year.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In 2012 Google embarked on an enormous research project. Code-named “Project Aristotle,” the aim was to see what made successful teams tick. So I did some further research and found that, when it comes to innovation, generosity can be a competitive advantage. Promote psychological safety.

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