Howard Yu's Blog, page 7
June 15, 2020
Ocean Park could take a few survival lessons from Disney
A crisis reveals as much as it devastates.
As Ocean Park reopened this weekend, Disney is keeping an eye on the situation – the Magic Kingdom is likely to take into account others’ experiences to…
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June 3, 2020
What’s Happening With Contact Tracing?
New Zealand’s last hospitalized COVID-19 patient headed home on May 27. It was also the fifth consecutive day the country reported no new coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, in the US, long-shot technology is viewed as the…
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May 31, 2020
How Your Business Can Transform
I have a great deep dive conversation with Marco Montemagno, a digital entrepreneur and broadcaster. We discussed the strategies that businesses – especially tech giants like Apple, Google, Facebook – have deployed to weather the…
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May 26, 2020
4 Tips for Helping Teams Maximize Digital Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond
As longtime advocates of digital work tools have found, the platforms that allow distributed workforces to function during a crisis can boost productivity, even during periods of normal business activity.
In these uncertain times, business…
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May 11, 2020
Virtual meetings are about to turn the art of management into a scalable science
We see computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics, economist Robert Solow once said. Indeed, while the internet age has given us mobile phones, cloud computing, Skype, and social media, economic productivity in the world’s…
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May 4, 2020
Big Tech Are Soaring, But Disney Serves As A Reality Check On COVID-19 Crisis
Disney is giving us a reality check this week. Last week’s earnings announcements among the tech giants were exuberant. Each made robust gains in sales, prompting a bewildered Paul Krugman to conclude in the New…
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April 30, 2020
How Apple And Amazon Are Winning Through The COVID-19 Fallout
A crisis can distract as much as it can reveal. This week has seen earnings announcements from Big Tech: Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple. In the depths of fear and confusion, the market has…
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April 23, 2020
Leading In Turbulent Times Webinar Series: Rapid Resilience
A huge thank you to all attendees that tuned into our webinar at IMD Business School. What a crowd! We had a record number of registrations and more than 900 have attended. It means a…
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April 22, 2020
In a Crisis, Ecosystem Businesses Have a Competitive Advantage
Most companies cannot quickly change their business model to open up new revenue streams. Different firm activities are interlocked with one another via standard procedures. There’s a high cost to switching internal operations. The result…
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April 20, 2020
Commentary: How Zoom-Working Will Change Companies Forever
Virtual meetings are here to stay. It’ll upend how all corporate decisions are made from here on.
HONG KONG: Like thousands of other professors, the executive education programmes I teach have either been cancelled or…
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