Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

administrators for every tenured or tenure-track faculty member within the UC system. While the companies comprising the S&P 500 reduced their average cost of goods sold by 500 basis points between 2004 and 2014, they made no progress at all in trimming SG&A expenses, which include executive salaries and corporate overhead.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Some have argued that most financial incentives are too small to make a difference, but even in the UK’s national health system, where up to 30% of clinicians’ income is paid through a P4P system, patients’ health have not markedly improved since 2004, when the system was introduced.

Incentives 8

Incentives Guidelines Quality Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Murdock purchased the old mill in 2004 and turned it into what journalist Amanda Wilson describes as "a public–private campus that would host research efforts broadly in his areas of interest." But when it comes to white men, the authors found that they got a bump in performance scores when they were perceived as valuing diversity.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. In 2004, the circumstances were different. A February 7, 2008, article in Fortune magazine reported that all the drugs highlighted at a December 2004 analyst meeting had come to market. We viewed restructuring as a last resort.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Since men naturally produce ten times as much testosterone as women, it's being suggested that a more gender-balanced financial workforce could be stabilizing for firms and for the system as a whole. On the other hand, the metrics of 21st century female professional and economic empowerment have become a tide.

Bottom-up 14

Bottom-up Metrics Construction Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than a decade ago, countries in Europe began to take measures to increase the gender diversity of their corporate boards. Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. Iceland, Norway) as well as in countries still working toward achieving their gender diversity quotas (e.g., In the U.S.,

Diversity 8

Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

came home from her job as a diversity consultant at JP Morgan Chase. On this day, though, she had just been asked to describe the "business-case for diversity" for her firm. What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? He was dead serious.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

My former colleague Janet Hyde, a developmental psychologist and an authority on gender differences, reviewed 46 meta-analyses that had been conducted on psychological gender differences from 1984 to 2004. (A We all want systems that are fair. It just means that we need more than good intentions to change biased behavior.

Long-term 14

Long-term Review Morale Engineering 14

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

of Horizon2020 research funding going to the 13 countries that joined the EU in 2004, despite these nations representing 17% of the EU population. The European Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems (EIDES) aims to rank each of the 28 EU Member States across a range of metrics to gauge their ability to support entpreneurialism.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 52