Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. Consider the 2014 attack on Target, which caused an estimated $162 million in damages. According to our research , over 60% of reported attacks on publicly traded U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Metrics Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Parkland has operated like an ACO since establishing its community-based primary care clinic in 1989 — out of necessity. We still operate that way today. In 2010, while overseeing Louisiana State University’s 10 public safety-net institutions, I faced an interesting dilemma. A mission-driven payer mix.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The transition to a global digital economy in 2014 was sporadic – brisk in some countries, choppy in others. This is happening in a country where online vendors largely operate on a cash-on-delivery (COD) basis. By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan.

GDP 12

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Today, as chairman of APCO Worldwide’s China operations , I have a deep view into the China operations of dozens of multinationals, and through that I can see that management in China is going through yet another phase. Determining who runs your China operations is the most important decision a CEO can make.

Globalization 8

Globalization Operations McKinsey Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise. The Value Management Office promoted the development of shorter and more usable measuring instruments for collecting outcomes data by HSS researchers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

They control $20 trillion in global consumer spending, own or operate between 25-33% of all private businesses, and earn an estimated $13 trillion. This "power of the purse" is growing rapidly; expectations are that it will swell to $18 trillion by 2014. For companies that figure out what women want, the future looks rosy indeed.

Innovation 10

Innovation Banking Proposal Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

billion initiative to build a country-wide fiber optic network that will connect an additional 160 million Indians by 2014. According to Mergermarket, the value of investment activity rose from $111 million in 2010 to $829 million in 2011, while the number of deals doubled from 33 to 66. This expansion isn't just domestic.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Economists developed the theory of network effects in the 1970s and burnished it in the 1990s, and business gurus, entrepreneurs, and the tech media enshrined it as one of the guiding lights of the new economy. Orkut officially closed in September 2014. The little that’s left of MySpace was purchased by Time, Inc.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Technical developments tend to grab the headlines in health care. Addressing patients’ fears is important because fear can make an eye operation difficult or even impossible. Prescription: Develop an efficient appointment process and treatment system that delivers services on time at hours that are convenient for patients.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative Training Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. This is precisely what it did with Greece in the first place, by not allowing it to restructure in 2010, and thus building this mountain of debt.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Energy Information Administration notes that between 2010 and 2012, 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity was retired and that a total of 60 GW will be retired by 2020. today than there were last year—and far fewer coal workers than in 2014.). First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The president made this goal even more formidable by promising that every American would have an electronic health record by 2014. So any infrastructure supports to assist providers in becoming meaningful users had to be in place very fast — by early 2010 at the latest. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

billion, making it the world’s second most valuable sports team, while its revenues touched $657 million, the fourth highest among soccer clubs (after Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Bayern Munich) in 2014. Like most organizations, Barça operates in a fast-paced environment with ambitious short-term goals.

Succession 8

Succession Short-term Sports Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

In April, its board increased the amount that could be used for buybacks by the end of March 2017 — to $140 billion from the $90 billion it had authorized in 2014. Clinton advocates full implementation of the executive-pay disclosure directives of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Some companies now actively involve stars in their product development process and other aspects of their businesses. And, Lady Gaga partnered with Polaroid to develop a throwback camera and LED photo glasses that act as a camera and are designed for real-time sharing. The primary challenge for most brands today is differentiation.

Creativity 8

Creativity Brand Advertising Video 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. So with Alibaba, we realized we needed to be willing to give up all operating control.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

At C Space, we’ve conducted more than 800 mobile journaling and ethnography projects on behalf of over 240 clients since 2010, and have seen the power of bringing consumer experience to life for our clients. Why use them? Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.”

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. According to an analysis by Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University, in 2014 nearly one-third of new H-1B visas went to 13 of these so-called “outsourcers.”

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9