Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. This week, the report came back, and it’s not pretty. °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). Getting to 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. In the largest study on climate change data and corporations, 8,000 supplier companies (that sell to 75 multinationals) reported on their level of climate risk.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sixty-three percent also reported that people are more civil at work than outside of it. Since 2010 Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate, in partnership with KRC Research, have tracked Americans’ perceptions of civility in various aspects of life, including work. The results show a severe and growing civility deficit.

Diversity 9

Diversity Politics Survey Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

According to 2010 data from the U.S. In three studies, published in 2010 in the Journal of Applied Psychology , Tom Sy and his colleagues designed vignettes describing an Asian or white leader (Tung-Sheng Wong vs. John Davis) who worked in engineering or sales. It’s even harder for Asian women — they comprise only 3.1%

Positioning 8

Positioning Leadership Diversity Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. They play well as a team.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41 percent in terms of return on equity and by 56 percent in terms of operating results. As of 2010, women held just 15.7

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The company also reported a 54% year-on-year increase in sales in Europe, which it attributed largely to tourists. trillion, with annual expenditures increasing from $2 trillion in 2010 to more than $6 trillion in 2020. By 2010, the number had risen to 221 million. In 2005, fewer than 50 million credit cards were issued.

Marketing 9

Marketing Apparel Short-term Brand 9

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

” The following year we reported, “ Despite Dire Headlines, the World is Getting Much, Much Better.” Prices for battery packs have dropped 87% since 2010. The 2019 Social Progress Index reports, “since 2014, the world average score increased from 61.80 In April, the U.S. did the same.

Globalization 94

Globalization Report Energy Sample 94

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

GE’s pension deficit exploded between 2010 and 2016, as the company spent $40 billion on stock buybacks in a futile effort to boost its stock price. billion in 2015 for Alstom’s business of making coal-fired turbines for power plants. Similarly, the company overpaid for several problematic purchases — for example, $9.5

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Stringer’s website observes that “These costs are projected to rise over the next four years to $782 million by FY 2018, a figure that is greater than the FY 2015 budget for the Parks Department, Department of Aging, and New York Public Library combined.”.

Budgeting 10

Budgeting Information Technology System Library 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Stringer’s website observes that “These costs are projected to rise over the next four years to $782 million by FY 2018, a figure that is greater than the FY 2015 budget for the Parks Department, Department of Aging, and New York Public Library combined.”

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Library Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Indeed, a 2012 Royal Society report emphasized that these “enhancements,” along with other technologies for self-enhancement, are likely to have far-reaching implications for the business world. After the study was published, media reports began to refer to Modafinil as the world’s first safe smart drug.

Ethics 15

Ethics Stress Policies Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated.

Health Care 8

Health Care Parcell Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

That was the main takeaway from our recent report, Rise of the Global Startup City , which documents the global state of startups and venture capital. The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. A number of U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) appeared in an IBM investor briefing. The finish line keeps on moving.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

News & World Report as the nation’s best rehabilitation hospital. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. He reports to vice presidents at both Silver Cross and RIC. At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. Clear roles.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Yet the company’s mounting scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report from former U.S. But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software. Attorney General Eric Holder. But Archive.org kept a copy.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

In 2010, Florida Power & Light estimated that 65 percent of its workforce was near or eligible to retire. While experts agree the grid has improved since then, the economic toll still looms according to a recent White House report. Traditional vocational and technical education programs are also part of the answer.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too. It arguably started with BP.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A 2015 study by Consumer Reports showed price differentials for organic foods ranging from -13% to +303%. A study in 2010 by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed price premiums ranging from 7% to 82% for organic foods.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Once at a storefront clinic, patients check in with a nurse and then use a free iPad/iPhone app called Tonic to report changes in health and well-being — a user experience inspired by video games, featuring fast-moving cartoon-like graphics illustrating common medical tasks. billion in 2010 to $4.9

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% At 20%, China’s share of global R&D expenditure in 2015 was well above Japan’s at 9% or Germany’s at 6% and second only to that of the U.S. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% in 2000 to 2.0% respectively. million by 2020.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Men today are reporting as much work-family conflict as women, and single employees report work-family conflict as well. In our recent study , published in the Academy of Management Annals, we analyzed trends across 186 studies, conducted between 2010 and 2015, of work-life flexibility and its impacts.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Policies Definition Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Within weeks of launching its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note 7, the company had to recall all of the more than 3 million devices it had sold, after reports of overheating and exploding batteries. In 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 8 million vehicles globally after defects led to dozens of driver fatalities and serious injuries.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Our report , conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), suggests that companies are starting to make progress when it comes to corporate gender equality, or at least, thinking about it. Fortune also issued its first Best Workplaces for Women list and Forbes issued its 10 Great Places for Women in 2015 last March.

Media 8

Media Globalization McKinsey CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

On World AIDS Day 2015, we can celebrate tremendous strides globally in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As of 2015, over 2 million people still become newly infected with HIV every year, and an estimated 22 million people remain untreated. A 2014 CDC report found that of the 1.2 Around the world, 15.8

Project 8

Project Health Care Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Recently, the New York Times reported on emails from airbag maker Takata that reveal engineers were allegedly “ changing colors or lines in a graphic ‘to divert attention'” in a chart about airbag test results. Here’s a recent chart that made news: @GlobeHorowitz : This was the most misleading chart of 2015 https://t.co/smWEwKtwNK

PR 8

PR Ethics Engineering Metrics 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. Bloomberg reports that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Training 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A recent Pew Research Foundation study reported that 92% of all LGBTQ adults felt that society is more accepting of them than a decade ago, and 87% of adults report personally knowing someone who is gay or lesbian (up from 61% in 1993).

Education 8

Education Document Survey Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. Furthermore, looking at the data, it is difficult to make the case that U.S. multinational corporations are not competitive. Further, U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 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

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Use and reporting of PSIs through AHRQ’s Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System has measurably improved quality. For instance, CMS reported a reduction in inpatient venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) from 28,000 in 2010 to 16,000 in 2014, meaning that 12,000 fewer patients had potentially fatal blood clots in 2014. .

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Report System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. A 2015 survey by Wayra , a startup incubator, last year found that over a fifth of startup talent in the UK came from other EU countries. The UK tech sector has been among the groups most vigorously opposed to exiting. billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

The program is most often associated with the tech industry, where H-1B workers hold about 12%–13% of jobs , according to a Goldman Sachs report. For example, Axios reported that 72.4% ” (A bill was introduced in 2015 to raise the cap and liberalize other rules around H-1Bs, but died in Congress.) jobs overall.)

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. A ccording to a McKinsey report , if Europe boosted its immigration from outside Europe, from 2.6

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Similarly, STAT reports conflicts with Rep. We analyzed required public disclosure information about congresspeople’s stock holdings as compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics , a nonpartisan nonprofit, in combination with a sample of S&P 500 performance data from 2005 to 2010. Scott Peters (D-CA).

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest Committee Collins Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Individual markets were troubled prior to the ACA’s enactment in 2010. In 2010, an estimated 9 million adults who had tried to buy a plan in the individual market over the prior three years reported that they were turned down, charged a higher price, or had a condition excluded from their plan because of their health.

Insurance 12

Insurance Marketing Health Care Policies 12