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). °C (1.8°F) °C (2.7°F)

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The heart of the legal controversy is whether Nissan violated Japan’s securities laws by not including Ghosn’s deferred compensation in its annual reports over the last eight years. As a result, when making close calls on the company’s financial reports, that auditor may be too deferential to Nissan management.

Committee 8

Committee Chief Financial Officer Document Execution 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

JUNE 28, 2016

The UK Treasury’s 200-page April 2016 report, blandly titled “The Long-Term Economic Impact of EU Membership and the Alternatives,“ seems a useful, well-executed benchmark. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned.

GDP 8

GDP Long-term Merchandising Benchmarking 8

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. Instead, the GE board approved a massive series of poorly timed buybacks and acquisitions, all of which should have been carefully vetted by a finance committee.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. They may think they're on top of things because their companies use apps to provide magazines or annual reports. These customers don't want dry reports on Global Reporting Initiatives and carbon emissions — they want to have fun.

Brand 12

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 12

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. The committee recently held a half-day retreat to develop a three-year plan for the program and set strategic priorities for 2016. Willingness to compromise.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

It is a tale of two tribes: while the BBC's embattled chiefs fight to save their jobs and haemorrhaging reputations, the loyal programme-makers calmly carry on, reporting the news (their corporation's scandals included) and delivering the quality TV and radio programmes for which the BBC is renowned. How long does the BBC have to rebuild it?

Crisis 8

Crisis Crisis Management Reputation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Last week, we at New America’s Better Life Lab published what we believe is a novel, forward-thinking report on the reality that harassment is “severe, pervasive, and widespread” across low and high income jobs and male- and female-dominated occupations. We also published an accompanying toolkit, called #NowWhat ?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Power Report Industry 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. Branding consultancy Interbrand estimated Samsung’s 2016 brand value at $51.8 Things look rather bleak for Samsung at the moment.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

When the ACA was passed, in 2010, many observed that although the ACA expanded access to health care, it did less to address the equally critical issue of improving the delivery of that care. ” What this suggests is that patient-reported satisfaction may be a reasonable proxy for quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Customer Loyalty Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%. As per the latest OECD report, there is not a single Chinese university among the global top-30 in terms of top-cited scientific publications.

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 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

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. The Association of National Advertisers and Nielsen just reported that by 2016, about 50% of digital advertising will be multi-screen. Open ecosystems will succeed.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. in February 2016 — which perhaps says it all. From around 1990 to 2010 Microsoft arguably ruled the information-technology industry. Yahoo’s core business is worth next to nothing, and buyers are struggling to see if there’s any there there.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The estimated return on these (fewer) products has itself declined substantially since 2010, from 10.1% According to the 2016 Harris Corporate Reputation Poll , only one-third of U.S. An August 2016 Gallup Poll found that no industry is held in lower esteem by U.S. citizens have a positive opinion of big pharma.

Reputation 8

Reputation Pharmaceuticals Price Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

In a study of a 2010 California mandate that public manager salaries be made public, Alexandre Mas shows that such disclosure lowered public salaries, especially those above $200,000, and steeply raised resignations — findings he attributes to populist backlash against high public salaries.

Company 8

Company Survey Comparison Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. 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% Who gets H-1Bs? jobs overall.)

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

A third of VC investments in Europe were focused on the UK in the first quarter of 2016, according to CBInsights. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The UK tech sector has been among the groups most vigorously opposed to exiting.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

As of the most recent data (2014 from the Senate and 2016 from the House), over half of Congress owns stock , many with holdings in excess of $100,000 in stocks alone, not to mention mutual funds and other forms of investments. Similarly, STAT reports conflicts with Rep. In addition, as of 2014 over half of lawmakers were millionaires.

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest Committee Collins Politics 8

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

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Similarly, during the 2016 election, many American voters found journalistic content less relevant than what they were experiencing in their own lives.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Eligible companies had more than three years to investigate their supply chains; the first disclosure reports were due in May 2014. We analyzed every conflict minerals report submitted to the SEC in 2014, 2015, and 2016 (though our paper only includes results for the first two years). We wanted to find out. stock markets.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.” distributors, retailers, and so on.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8