Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Unlike Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, the United States has generally failed to develop widely accepted skills standards for particular sectors. public workforce-development system do. Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

But the move to SaaS comes with considerable challenges: Firms will need to change their structure , sales culture, and incentives , and convince existing as well as new customers of the new offering’s value. Disclosure: One of us works at Amazon Web Services, a provider for many SaaS businesses.).

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies, collapsed in 2001, it sent shock waves through the corporate world. Setting goals is one of the established tools that managers have to increase staff motivation and performance. We asked the participants to explain how they would respond to a realistic business scenario.

Goal 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When you put all these pieces together around education and health care, it’s clear that Cuba is likely a champion of investment in the development of human capital—but for the last 50 years it has an extremely low economic return on this investment. It turns incentives about acquiring skills upside down. But, oddly, U.S.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs. billion in revenues.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). The thing about these Government contracts is that they are paid as development proceeds. At least not yet.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives. When CEOs lack this expertise, they are more likely to manage R&D “by the numbers,” despite the fact that those numbers are more elusive than those for capital and advertising.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. How do they do it?

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. What’s in the Tax Bill?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. Since 2001, when she'd arrived at the company, she'd turned around two hotels. Honestly, Fernando, not much," Beatriz said.

Case Study 10

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Executives never stayed long.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

I met Tony in 2001 when he was sent to me with severe muscle weakness. In 2001 Questcor bought the rights to Acthar Gel, which is used to treat infantile spasms, a rare form of childhood epilepsy. Pharmaceutical companies traditionally invest heavily in research and development.

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