Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. By the end of 2010, they found that incentive bonuses did have a minor impact on growth but that as soon as they were discontinued, sales dropped again. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

In 2005, after years of negative publicity, Nike published its list of suppliers and toughened its compliance policy, requiring subcontractors to comply with the Atlanta Agreement on child labor, international conventions on freedom to unionize, and local labor laws. Enforcement of minimum wage law in Sialkot is not robust.).

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 6, 2010

If you are falling way short, reinvigorate your team by coming up with an intermediate “benchmark&# goal and an incentive to hit it. If you hit them already (or are about to), raise the bar again.

Leadership 263

Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Benchmarking 263

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Since 2005, cable companies have lost ten million subscribers. That was clearly the incentive behind the 2011 acquisition of NBC Universal , which gave the company access to a massive library of old and new content. That’s the sense in which Comcast’s merger with TWC is largely defensive.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

This large national study, conducted from March 2000 to February 2005, enrolled 2,505 patients with disc herniation, spinal stenosis, or degenerative spondylosis. To get a sense of the power of patient-reported outcomes data that’s collected on a large scale, consider the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial ( SPORT ).

Health Care 8

Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” Carriers had the incentive and ability to invest in new radios, technologies, and business models, limiting interference while squeezing more value out of each slice of bandwidth. Etheric Bedlam.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Just one in three diagnostic mistakes result from physicians’ mental mistakes, according to a 2005 analysis by the Archives of Internal Medicine. Anchoring the system in results will create a stronger incentive to get the initial diagnosis right. So how can we better understand this phenomenon, and what can we do to address it?

Cost 8

Cost Health Care System Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Others cite the nine organizations leaving the program and the humbling results of a prior ACO experiment in Medicare — the Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD) that ran from 2005 to 2010 — as reasons to be pessimistic. Yet one distinction bears emphasizing.

Organization 8

Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8