Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Labor Department unveiled $160 million in new grants to retrain workers for technical skills in high-growth fields. And the skills required to fill many of the jobs returning first in the recovery — namely in engineering, IT, and healthcare — do not match the skills of Americans most needing work. How many are there?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Ask a buy-side analyst why Amazon or Apple fetches the price-earnings multiple they do, and inevitably the conversation turns to things like their ability to innovate, their capacity to capture and grow the best talent, their skill at managing brand and vendor relationships or ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Sperling is catching flak, though, for something that was first disclosed in 2009 — the fact that he was paid $887,727 in 2008 by Goldman Sachs. As David Corn tells it , Sperling suggested that Goldman fund a $100 million program to teach business skills to 10,000 women in poorer countries. They paid him $70,000 a month.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Microsoft, according to a former company executive , had developed a viable tablet computer more than a decade ago but failed to pre-empt Apple's smash hit because competing Microsoft divisions had conspired to kill the project. Leaders play a crucial role in getting this right.

CIO 15

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

You need to choose who to hire for the sales team, and how to continually develop sales team skills and knowledge. And you need to determine the goals, incentives, and sales culture that will motivate peak sales force effort levels and performance. Leaders invested to develop better measures of customer potential.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

After 2009, the Cuban economy really didn’t recover. When you put all these pieces together around education and health care, it’s clear that Cuba is likely a champion of investment in the development of human capital—but for the last 50 years it has an extremely low economic return on this investment.

Biotechnology 8

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

They are partnering with an Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston or in Philadelphia, co-developing products in San Francisco’s Entrepreneurship-in-Residence program, or deploying some of the more than $430 million invested into civic-tech in the last two years. They are coding in civic hackathons and competing in the Bloomberg challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Contractors paid based on their costs, with little incentive to save, increased them even more. Cuts weren''t just made to the physical rocket itself but to everything surrounding it — overhead, support services, development timeframe, and more. SpaceX developed a plan for sustaining the lower-cost business model over many years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Initially, beginning in 2009, CORE began taking on financial accountability for all musculoskeletal physician-related medical expenses (paid claims) with one insurer, which pays CORE a per-member per-month (PMPM) fee that represents about 20% of the total physician medical expense for musculoskeletal care.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Health Care Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Under managerial capitalism, overall production was no longer driven by market mechanisms; it was decided on by skilled managers in large companies. Oligopoly permits mutual understanding to develop, and then, because that understanding supports premium profits, the players have an incentive to maintain the oligopoly.

Competitive Advantage 15

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In late 2009, CEO Lori Bush was searching for a way to raise the productivity of the company’s sales force. And while they love the company’s products, five years ago there was a wide disparity in sales skills. Or they could analyze the behaviors of the most successful consultants and train others on their methods.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. Willingness to compromise.

Health Care 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

There was no trained manpower available in Hyderabad, unlike traditional hubs of diamond polishing like Surat, Gujarat in western India, where diamond polishing skills are passed down generation to generation. The company also offers productivity-linked incentives, which helps youth take home an average salary of $160 (Rs.8000)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

tax code currently is a deterrent to business — not only the level of taxation, but the fact that various incentives, such as the R&D tax credit, come and go. At the end of 2009, the Code of Federal Regulations consisted of a reported 157,974 pages in more than 200 volumes. This is a monumental task. At least nine U.S.

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Supply Chain Incentives Politics Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. A new program inside VA called “Diffusion of Excellence” provides incentives for managers to share and adopt best practices.

Six Sigma 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

A county network of 12 community-based primary care clinics, 95 specialty clinics, an inpatient hospital, an ambulatory surgery center, and 12 skilled nursing facilities, Parkland has the mission of caring for all Dallas County residents regardless of their ability to pay. Population-driven innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

But that policy came at the cost of badly degraded incentives for providers to invest in new technologies, leaving the EU with minimal cable Internet, fiber-optic networks, or high-speed mobile broadband. A perceived lack of relevance and a lack of technical skills are by far the most common reasons given. As a result, the U.S.

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Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

In Drive , Pink asserts that “carrot and stick” approaches (such as bonuses and incentives) work when the task is straight forward, but as soon as it requires creativity and more complex thinking, the “if you do this, then you get that” approach to rewards doesn’t work…and worse, it can backfire. So back to Drive.

Motivation 37

Motivation Long-term Short-term Incentives 37

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. the main home of Arab inventors, but the number of Arab patents increased 62% over 10 years, from 1,826 patent applications from 1999–2003 to 2,962 from 2009–2013. Skilled Arab immigrants are more likely than other major ethnic groups to arrive in the U.S.

Innovation 14

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Because if the repair shop had bothered to train and trust the mechanic on more than just technical skills—e.g., No wonder we have skills shortages! By April 2014, Nike was waving the white flag by laying off most of the FuelBand’s development team. But it’s never the nincompoop, it’s always the Nincompoopery.

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