Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

That time came in 2010, reports The Guardian , when two aging Swedish financiers attended Freak Guitar summer camp in bucolic Härsjösand outside Gothenburg. But missing by 1% led to an average share price decrease of only 0.2% In fact, 40% of companies saw their share price move the opposite way they missed their estimates.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

million – between 1990 and 2010. Only 44% of households had any life insurance in 2010, which is a 50-year low. A recent survey by Gallup found that Americans, on average, expect to retire at 67, and only 38% think their retirement will be comfortable. dropped 45% – from 17.7 million to 9.7 households.

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Insurance Policies Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

In a 2010 survey, for example, only 25% of French employers said they were "strongly interested in hiring mothers," and 41% feared there would be "less flexibility in the schedules of mothers who worked" (they didn''t have this fear when it came to men). What''s a Fair Price for Medical Services? It’s called price-fixing.”

Committee 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. Especially telling: 57% of the Chinese women university graduates surveyed for our book Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets rated the public sector as an attractive job option. The rewards were there, but they came at a high price.

Travel 9

Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Powerful global forces—game-changing technologies, unprecedented growth in emerging markets, and rapidly aging populations, to name a few—are transforming the world economy, and with it, the way companies plan for and conduct business. Creating good strategy is more important (and more challenging) than ever.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Trends Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

It isn't about slash-and-burn cost cutting, reducing headcount or beating up suppliers to get the lowest price. Postal Service is in decline because technology is helping us do just that. According to a 2010 survey from the U.S. It's often easier to describe what lean isn't than what it is.

Operations 8

Operations eBook Transportation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

In places like Gadsden, Alabama, and Punta Gorda, Florida, less than half of working age women (46% and 42%, respectively) were in the paid workforce in 2010; cities like Madison, Wisconsin, had 73% and Fargo, North Dakota, had more than 75% (the highest in the nation) of women in the workforce. hour more than Columbus from 1980 to 2010.

Participative 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Companies with broader risk management outlooks and practices outperform their peers, according to a survey from Ernst and Young. Enterprise IT is no different.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

In recent years, many new sources of customer influence have become available thanks to technology advances, with significant new power to shape how customers think about products, services, and company reputations. The answer, we believe, lies in the changing nature of advice-getting in the digital age.

Advice 9

Advice Review Reputation Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. The business press puts a tremendous focus on technology and innovation, but what it doesn't do is put it into context.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

At the same time, technologies like selfie sticks, Fitbits, and wearable video cameras are making people comfortable monitoring their own calorie consumption, sleep patterns, heart rate, friends, family, and daily experiences. “You just can’t get this depth of insight in a one-off focus group or survey,” Hadnot notes.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

And social stigma and workplace polices often prohibit workers from even talking about wages in the first place—a recent survey revealed that 41% of workers are discouraged from talking about pay and a shocking 25% of workers fear retribution over pay discussions. A compensation survey can tell employers exactly what to offer.

Company 8

Company Survey Comparison Price 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

That's where a members' survey is essential. A simple survey can identify, within barbershop chapters, whether the group is mostly interested in a) socializing or in b) performing at a high level. Perhaps for starters we might stop providing recipes and talk honestly with clients about 1. the hard work of being a leader 2.

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 291

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In spite of being a small agency, they manage to have a blog read by over 25,000 people monthly, a weekly podcast series, e-books, e-learning classes, surveys, and more. Stay on top of all technological advances pertaining to marketing. This is not 2010, a lot has changed over the past couple of years.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations. They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Late in June, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed technology and innovation platform. ” No technology company would object to that proposal. But these programs, including the troubled Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, have had limited success, if any at all.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

A survey of members of Tech London Advocates, an industry group, revealed that 87% opposed Brexit. In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 The prognosis is not good.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. At that point if you took a survey of what the outlook was, you’d get an overwhelming positive response the day before it falls on its face. They are not. Bubbles and forecasting. And I say a bubble.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11