Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers.

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Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period. Government Risk management Sustainability'

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Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In a recently published paper in the Academy of Management Journal , we explore how major business corporations translate the grand challenge of climate change into strategies, policies, and practices over an extended period of time. Each of these five companies were at the leading edge of corporate engagement with this issue.

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

While 38 companies joined the unicorn ranks in the second half of 2015, only 19 made it into the club in the first half of 2016. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues. In 2015 global M&A volume surpassed $5 trillion — a record.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

As Della Mae Justice, a successful lawyer who was raised in poverty, explained to the New York Times in 2005 , “My stomach’s always in knots getting ready to go to a party, wondering if I’m wearing the right thing, if I’ll know what to do.” The reality, however, is often quite different.

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Class Influence Diversity Education 13

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? I hope you enjoy these pieces and launch into the New Year with exuberance and peace.

How To 69

How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 69

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. It’s worth remembering Peter Drucker’s famous distinction: “management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

Licensing 8

Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. In 2015, a sales rep earned commission on everything they closed. In addition to a sales rep, you created a business development role for pre-sales, you hired a variety of hunters and farmers, you assigned an account rep to manage ongoing business.

B2C 14

B2C Energy Marketing Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid.

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. It does not require the approval of your manager or CEO, and servant-leadership is within us and it’s about who we want to be and how we want to try to relate to other people. We’ve had 10 issues since 2005. What is the Difference Between Management and Leadership?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

These major transformations pose significant implications for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, workers, and managers, as well as policymakers for nations and cities across the globe. These 10 cities accounted for more than $100 billion in venture capital investment on average each year between 2015 and 2017, or more than 60% of the total.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? I hope you enjoy these pieces and launch into the New Year with exuberance and peace.

How To 40

How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. It does not require the approval of your manager or CEO, and servant-leadership is within us and it’s about who we want to be and how we want to try to relate to other people. We’ve had 10 issues since 2005. What is the Difference Between Management and Leadership?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

in 2005 to 15.8% ” The Commission recommended responses that manage the overall health of the economy (managing and strengthening aggregate demand), promote educational opportunity, provide public employment, and secure transitional income maintenance.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Among the largest 250 companies in the world, 92% produced a CSR report in 2015, informing shareholders and the public about the firm’s activities. That’s up from 64% having such a report in 2005. Companies are starting to care more about corporate social responsibility (CSR). It is a tricky balance to get right.

Incentives 8

Incentives Motivation Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. Is the U.S. naïve? It’s puzzling. Such a strategy would support U.S. Therefore, governments at multiple levels in the U.S.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

For over two years, I’ve been doing qualitative research on Uber and Lyft drivers, first examining how Uber uses automated mechanisms to manage drivers with my coauthor Luke Stark. This bifurcation has been apparent in my own research. And, more recently, I’ve interviewed 85 Uber and Lyft drivers across the U.S. ” he asked.

Motivation 8

Motivation Survey Incentives Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Fortune counted more than 170 of the mythical creatures , with an average of one unicorn born every week during 2015. But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs. And such flexibility can provide a distinct competitive advantage — as long as costs aren’t spiraling out of control.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As one former digital agency executive told me after watching Microsoft’s event, “If I were managing a brand, I’d head right to my digital agency and say, ‘What is our plan for holograms?’” You might as well be on a feature phone in 2005. The answer is likely no, not completely, or only somewhat.

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Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In 2015, for instance, he raised the base employee wage by 33%, to $16 an hour, and introduced an enhanced benefit program for employees with household incomes under 300% of the federal poverty level, potentially saving them thousands per year in health care costs. Consider, once again, the case of Fred Lynch.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Same-sex couples throughout the country can now get legally married after the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. LGBTQ people are highly visible in the media, on television, in the movies, and in the C-suites of major companies like Apple, Google, and IBM.

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Education Document Survey Sample 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The researchers found that after examining 70 countries between 2005 and 2015, there is a clear link between the quality of institutions in a country and both the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship. Research from the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley underlines this point. Rules of the game. This includes an additional .

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Catmull expands on his ideas about managing a creative company that he explored in his 2008 HBR article “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity.” Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015. In his new book Creativity, Inc. I spoke with him by phone.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

multinationals like GE have managed to pay less than nothing some years in federal corporate income taxes. billion in 2015, so the revenue lost to tax expenditures is significant. However, that number obscures considerable variability between companies. A significant minority of U.S. For comparison, corporate taxes raised $343.8

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Consensus Policies Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. In 2005, for instance, the agency issued its first net neutrality policy statement. In 2015, the FCC succeeded. These “connected farms” are not just making life easier for those who run them, they are helping their fields to flourish.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” Transparency and governance issues abound. Investing in innovation capacity. billion in 2014.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Curious Cat

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Related: EpiPen Maker Also Hiked Prices on a Slew of Other Medications – USA Health-Care System Ranks 50th out of 55 Countries – Drug Prices in the USA, a system continually burning toast (2005) – USA Heath Care System Needs Reform (2009) – 2015 Health Care Price Report – Costs in the USA and Elsewhere.

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System Health Care Deming Price 75