Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. My former employer decided to downsize our management group within two months of my planned exodus. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. They can do so with the help of a new business strategy: ‘Healthcare Performance Management’ (HPM). And if a competitor is foolhardy enough to try to work around an MFN, then the dominant insurer can simply force its rival out of the market.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 64

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. We can point to three major factors driving these trends, though there are others. The Great Expansion. The third factor is political.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Netflix founder Reed Hastings, for instance, always wanted to do on-demand video, but the technology infrastructure wasn’t there in 1997, the year he founded the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. In 2005, they launched a U.S. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

At the same time, the New York company launched a Silicon Valley start-up with a separate mission, management team, and business model while leveraging vital assets of the parent. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue. Look at profit margin trends.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Advances in technology are keeping pace. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. But this trend isn't limited to recent graduates. High-quality talent and people who are ambitious want to see the world and the business management systems of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

If you're a manager of a large business, you know the challenges involved in retaining talented people, guiding their progress toward important objectives, and having them feel a deep sense of engagement with the organization. Regardless of your technology framework, don't make the tool or the interaction overly complex or artificial.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Because of my Institutional Investor ranking, and advances in technology that made virtual co-location possible, I was able to persuade Merrill Lynch to let me work out of my home in Boston. The recent global downturn has accelerated the growing trend toward some type of independent work. This trend cuts across all demographics.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. Here are 9 ways Social Media has helped me, and can help you too: 1. Great post!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. The demands associated with those trends aren't going away.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Having followed this phenomenon since 2005, the report found that February 4, would be the largest-ever anticipated day of Super Bowl-related absenteeism. The fever was found to be even more amongst managers than frontline workers, perhaps because they could take advantage of their flexibility. million would work from home, while 9.4

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Many conjectures have been offered to explain this controversial trend. Further analysis confirms that this trend is not just due to acquisitions; the companies are delisted sooner even when the sample is constricted only to those delisted for financial troubles. In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Below, I’ll expand further on these trends and explain how reversing them would reduce short-termism and revive growth. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs. Instead of hiring outside CEOs, hire insiders—or at least CEOs with domain expertise.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. ” Evidence of this trend toward greater corporate inequality has been trickling in for a while now. Others will try and fail.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Growing opportunities to collect and leverage digital information have led many managers to change how they make decisions – relying less on intuition and more on data. Therefore, it’s only natural that technologies delivering faster, cheaper, more accurate information create opportunities to re-invent the managerial machinery.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective virtual management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. The vast distance created problems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A number of techniques and process-improvement tools from inside and outside the industry have been brought to bear: lean engineering to simplify and standardize care, Crew Resource Management to improve teamwork, checklists to help teams focus and improve reliability, and so on. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. Technology makes the sharing of information much easier today than it was during the Roman Empire.

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Tips Team Management Teamwork 133

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In fact, it raises a couple of important questions: Are assessments even the most effective way to incentivize doctors to keep up with the latest medical knowledge and new technologies? One possible explanation could be that it becomes more difficult to keep up with scientific and technological advancement over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

A 2005 survey of more than 500 freight interests from the public and private sectors carried out by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) revealed deep divisions on freight traffic congestion causes and solutions, and an alarming lack of communication between the two sides. Economy Government Transportation'

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Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Management and leadership skills. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

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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.” Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? This will be the first year since 2005 in which Pixar has not had a feature film to release.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. But FarmLogs is not your typical technology start-up, and its founders, Jesse Vollmar and Brad Koch, are not your typical Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurs.

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