The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The notion of the on-demand workforce was first brought to popular attention by Dan Pink in 2001 when he published Free Agent Nation, in which he predicted a future dominated by independent workers. Indeed, they argue that little has really changed since Pink made his prediction all those years ago.

Agility 97

Agility Business Model Survey Policies 97

HR Digest

MAY 7, 2019

According to a study by the Institute For Women’s Policy Research, in 2017, full-time and year-round female workers earned only 80.5 The median earnings of all male workers from 2001 to 2017 increased by 1.9 A study by the Institute For Women’s Policy Research reveals that women’s earnings are lower in almost all occupations.

Policies 45

Policies Skills 45

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2020

The data was collected from 2001 to 2013. When Californian employers were interviewed by the Center for Economic and Policy Research on their views on paid paternity leave, 89 per cent to 99 per cent of employers said, “It had no effect or a positive one on productivity, profitability, turnover and morale”.

Cost 87

Cost Bond Insurance Long-term 87

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nordic countries there is a great focus on sick leave policies.

Short-term 59

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nordic countries there is a great focus on sick leave policies.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

In 2001, Page and Brin hired their first CEO, Eric Schmidt, who had a Ph.D. ("Googol" is the math term for the figure 1 followed by a hundred zeros.) And they came up with an informal company motto to signal their benign intent: "Don't be evil." Today, Google reaches billions of pages of content. .

Advertising 84

Advertising Outsourcing Engineering Information Technology 84

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

Blog 362

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate. I think most celebrities and tycoons will agree.

Press Release 202

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

Deming Institute

JUNE 11, 2018

Guest post by Michael Godfried: planner and policy analyst in Washington State. In America, the use of metrics can be tracked from Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management (1911), the New Public Administration of the 1980s and the 2001 No Child Left Behind program and beyond.

Metrics 31

Metrics Deming Scientific Management Proposal 31

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

As a soldier deployed for my ninth time since the events of September 11, 2001 I’ve seen firsthand the amazing impact something as simple as a letter can have on the human spirit. ” It is a remarkable sight, to be sure.

Emotional Intelligence 150

Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

European policy makers who are considering raising tax rates as a way to increase revenue in the aftermath of the financial crisis should put greater emphasis on enforcing existing tax laws, says Zoë Kuehn of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain.

System 8

System Crisis Policies 8

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2022

Our findings suggest that these policies may be effective, but in a narrow sense: While transparency may pressure firms to reduce horizontal inequality (between peers), employees are unlikely to exert the same pressure to reduce vertical inequality (between employees and managers), which constitutes the bulk of pay inequality.”.

Policies 97

Policies Learning-by-Doing Analysis Comparison 97

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 4, 2020

Since 2001 this process of snooping was made that bit easy by moving the records online. Similar laws exist in the other Scandinavian countries, and they have prompted much debate about the ethics of such a policy. In other words, did knowledge of their position in the income distribution affect their wellbeing?

Policies 80

Policies Consensus Analysis Comparison 80

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. While our research found that firm-level innovation is high, we also note that policy plays an important role.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

Sociologists, policy makers, and cultural researchers tend to stress the hypothesis that old societies lose the spirit of enterprise, favor security over risky dynamism, and become less forward-looking. This is surprisingly old — such levels were reached in Japan from 1999–2003 and in Germany from 2001–2004.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Health Care Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates. labor market is like an aging athlete; it is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Merchandising GDP Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But in 2001, the nation’s policymakers were able to boost entrepreneurship, according to a recent paper. And they did it by making welfare policies even more generous. But researchers at MIT, Berkeley, and HEC Paris set out to determine whether the increase was actually caused by the policy change.

Insurance 8

Insurance Entrepreneur Policies Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Set clear policies. For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. billion in net income during the five years prior to its bankruptcy in 2001, while only $114 million in net cash was generated (or a mere 3% of reported income).

Management 12

Management Banking Committee Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Kleinbard, it turns out, is a centrist — maybe even center-right — wonk when it comes to tax policy. But now, after two years in Washington (where he was chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation ) and five at USC, Kleinbard has concluded that tax policy just isn’t the most important thing.

Insurance 9

Insurance Open-book Committee Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Washington is usually quiet in August, but an event next week has the potential to shake things up for business and foreign policy. official guiding Africa policy recently described his job motivation. More than 200 U.S. Africa Business Forum. Convened by the White House, the forum is the centerpiece of a three-day U.S. Can the U.S.

Comparison 8

Comparison Policies Influence Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Whether adjustments to new technology are gradual or sudden is important for policy and for our understanding of economic recoveries. recessions (1991, 2001, 2007–09) have been jobless, meaning that employment was slow to rebound despite recovery in total economic output. The recoveries from the last three U.S.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

The chart above shows where cities fall according to Guzman and Stern’s measure of average startup quality between 2001 and 2003 — more on that in a moment — and compares that to their GDP growth from 2003–2014. “A doubling of entrepreneurial quality predicts an increase of 6.8%

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In the United States, beginning in 1927 with the Federal Caustic Poison Act, government policies requiring warnings initially focused on exposures that posed immediate, toxic hazards. In 2001 the U.S. How did we get here? Warnings on widely used consumer products are a relatively new phenomenon. For over 50 years the U.S.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Previously, she was the vice president of Global Public Policy at Facebook. Several years later, in 2001, I was working as chief of staff to then-Harvard University President Larry Summers when we unveiled Harvard’s Sustainability Principles. Future Economy. Mission-Driven Sustainability. We need both.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. In the next few years, in the wake of a restructuring of Turkish monetary policy, the sector revived. Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers.

Banking 11

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

And as the health of employees keep declining, their employer-paid health premiums keep rising — 113 percent just since 2001 , in fact — and productivity plummets. As, in fact, most such policy battles usually are. trillion per year.

Absenteeism 10

Absenteeism Presenteeism Health Care Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

However, recent local and regional experiments — many funded by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions , a nonprofit alliance of state and local policy makers, businesses, labor groups, researchers, foundations, and other stakeholders — suggest that sector-based strategies can succeed in the U.S. Identify a network integrator.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

During and after the crises, NASA adopted its policy of forthright communication. There have been far-reaching business after-effects from the attacks on September 11, 2001. In the fourth quarter of 2001, there were 408 extended mass layoff events, involving 114,711 workers, directly or indirectly attributed to the attacks.

Crisis 61

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 61

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Related to its foreign exchange crisis of 2001, Argentina had borrowed substantially from the IMF and other international lenders. In elections, it was not surprising that some leaders would advocate policies of income redistribution to gain voter support. Chavez lent Argentina enough capital to pay off these loans.

Politics 8

Politics Price Simon Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

When I was head of leadership development for Ford Motor Company (from 1999 to 2001), we successfully implemented a program, called Total Leadership , that built on these basic principles. The need for structural and policy change is desperate. act with integrity by respecting the whole person. The time has come.

Constraint 15

Constraint Bottom-up Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In its 2001 “ Crossing the Quality Chasm ” report, the Institute of Medicine identified equitable care as one of six core aims of high-value health care systems. Efforts to eliminate racial disparities in health care are important, but they alone will not erase the racial disparity in life expectancy in the United States.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Quality Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Yet with a deadlock among governments leading to the dropping of discussion of global negotiations on public procurement and investment policies in 2004, and little interest in opening service-sector markets, the round has been narrowed to a focus on agricultural and manufactured trade. 50, February 2001). Instead, U.S.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

While it is encouraging to see the Chinese government rethinking its support of the solar-panel industry, it would be foolish to interpret this move as a reversal of its overarching policy of aggressively subsidizing targeted industries in order to dominate global markets. A Rise Fueled by Subsidies.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

Robin Lakoff’s article titled Women in Power from the New England Journal of Public Policy states: “Women have a different way of speaking from men. 2001, December). New England Journal of Public Policy, 22(1/2), 7-16. The study of language and gender provides additional perspective on women’s leadership gaps. LiA, 25, 14.

Power 263

Power Leadership Styles Leadership Mentor 263

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

What’s more, most foundations follow prudent investment policies mandating that portfolios be diversified. In 2001, then-CEO Carly Fiorina recommended to the board the acquisition of Compaq Computer. We suspect not – not because of any shortcomings, but because he will not have the shares to back him up.

Follow-up 8

Follow-up Class Price Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

But in a 2001 paper, the IMF acknowledged that Malaysia's policies had been effective, and that Malaysia's recovery in 1999-2000 was among the strongest of the Asian crisis economies—and even apologized for the criticism.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? As long as Internet culture allows or even supports that kind of "freedom" (as, for example, a culturally acceptable extension of BYOD policies), companies are in real danger.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8