Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By 2007, Brazil had reclaimed its position as the number-one destination of foreign investment in the region from Mexico, according to CEPAL , one of the five regional commissions of the UN; Brazil also represented 30–40% of a typical multinational’s Latin America portfolio, according to our internal client polling.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Silver Star, the second-largest soccer ball production firm in town, with over 2,000 employees, learned about the die almost immediately, and by March 2014 was using it for all of its pentagon cutting. In such cases, there is a clear economic rationale for interventions to encourage the activity that generates the positive externalities.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

According to a 2011 NBC News article , the use of personality assessments are on the rise, growing as much as 20% annually. They can provide tremendous value for self-discovery, team building, coaching, enhancing communication, and numerous other developmental applications. And yet that’s how many companies operate.

Human Resources 14

Human Resources Tools Analysis Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

It acquired social-software maker blueKiwi and combined the acquired company’s application with two from Microsoft, creating a platform that allows individuals and teams, including those in partners and clients, to enter virtual “communities” where they can collaborate on complex projects. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Tools Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Between 1997 and 2014, the number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. And if you’re a woman thinking about quitting your job to start a company, recognize that you’re in a strong negotiating position. rose by 68 percent.

Middle Management 11

Middle Management Metrics Entrepreneur Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Reading all the stories and hearing the rumors about Apple’s autonomous vehicles, Google’s drones, and Amazon’s experiments with new delivery systems, it’s easy to imagine looking out your window in a few short years and seeing a world that is positively Jetsons-like.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It’s also a successful business: the team’s net worth, according to Forbes , was $3.16 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.

Succession 8

Succession Short-term Sports Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It makes possible the routine collection of patient-reported data using standardized screening instruments, incorporates redesigned patient and care team workflows to allow consistent monitoring, and embeds clinical-decision-support systems for providing individualized feedback and action at the point of care. million to 3.3 Army, the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Would the traditional host organization reject the new software center as an alien entity?

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Knowing where your professional passions lie puts “you in a good position,” says Dorie Clark, the author of Reinventing You : Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future. ” Kate left her job at PerkinElmer in February 2014; the next month, she and her business partner started ORIGƷN, a Boston-based biotechnology company.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With the new year coming, I asked myself … what wisdom could I provide to help leaders change their game in 2014? My Top 12 Favorite, Hidden Book Gems that are a “must read” for every leader for 2014. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2011 edition). Drum roll please …. LEADING YOURSELF … LEADING OTHERS.

Books 113

Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 113

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

According to a report by workforce analytics firm Burning Glass, more than a quarter million such positions opened up between April 2014 and March 2015. For example, positions in mobile development, which combines skills from engineering, coding, and computer science, have grown by 135 percent since 2011.

Education 8

Education Engineering System Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I remember last year settling into the booth of a café deep in the rainforest in Costa Rica and looking up to see a placard on the table begging for a positive TripAdvisor review. Advertisers are brought to the site and driven mainly through self-service channels, so there is no need for a large sales force or account management team.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8