Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

That is perhaps the most frequent question I’ve received since 2011 when GlaxoSmithKline changed the link between the bonus pay of our pharmaceutical sales professionals in the United States and the numbers of prescription sold for a particular medicine. Department of Justice over past sales and marketing practices to reach that conclusion.

Incentives 13

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Health Care Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The new rivals revolutionized customer expectations, causing Nokia’s Symbian operating system to become outdated.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Frankly, I'm all for letting the system be overrun by those who deserve to be there. While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics. Race or gender have nothing to do with blogging ability.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 292

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Once you know that zero is the goal, you will realize that achieving it is unlikely in your current system. An aggressive HMO was aggressively moving into the market, cutting prices offered to employers. They chose Fremont because it was in the thick of the market changes and had outstanding physician leadership.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A 2015 Institute of Medicine report, “Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress,” demonstrates broad consensus that measuring the quality of people’s health and the care they receive is critical to improving performance of the health care system and patients’ health outcomes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

It is true that that breaches are expected and have become a regular cost of doing business, but there are deeper reasons for the market’s failure to respond to these incidents. A widely accepted notion goes that there are only two types of companies: those that have been breached and those that don’t know they have.

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. They’ve lived through tumultuous times before and the status quo has always returned.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Integrated : Ideas need to be incorporated into strategic initiatives and not constitute disparate systems. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule. The initiative should have a beginning, middle and end. Thanks David.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. For a junior programmer who might make a market-rate salary of $60,000, we'd offer perhaps $48,000 plus commission.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. I'm not sure either frame is right.

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Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The most innovative brands have dramatically changed the way they connect with customers by supplementing traditional marketing and advertising with social and digital media. This program, Create Jobs for USA , will begin November 1, 2011.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Crisis Brainstorming 15

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Technology advocates argue that the nature of technology, which has often made things either significantly cheaper, or free entirely, provide benefits that are not easily captured by traditional economic metrics of productivity. Complete, strengthen and extend the EU Single Market and the EU Digital Single Market.

Innovation 101

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 101

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

But what should take the place of that alpha metric as a better indicator of economic health? Today, the Legatum Institute releases its 2011 Index, and we were eager to know what might have changed. And a couple of companies have told us they use the Prosperity Index as a resource when they assess the potential of new markets.

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GDP Social Capital Globalization Entrepreneur 10

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Optimization involves designing a system or process to be as good as possible in some defined sense. In each case the answer is it depends.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

After graduating from my undergrad education (2007) I unexpectedly joined my parents’ company as the Global Sales and Marketing Director…it has been amazing yet seems to be a daily trial by fire test. Informal power results from their core belief system. Ak January 5, 2010 at 1:38 pm Thank you Terry. Fantastic post.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

This is reflected in the drop in stock price from an April high of about $45 to about $35 in late May (a market cap decline of more than $35 billion). Ina Drew was in the bank's High Five in the proxy statement, with more than $15 million in total comp in 2010 and 2011 (cash, bonus, stock awards).

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

One-year contracts hold our doctors accountable, with yearly performance reviews that include each doctor’s quality metrics, clinical outcomes, and research. As consolidation expands, data and transparency become increasingly important, as a way to ensure that caregivers across the system are providing comparable care.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

Since the launch of “five-star” care, UUHC has celebrated steady gains in quality metrics and a reduction in costs. It is the sum of every interaction a patient has with the health care system. UUHC’s system invites only data from patients who have had verified hospital or clinic visits. Better care.

Review 8

Review Health Care Quality Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. They acquire huge customer bases and receive staggering market valuations while employing a relatively small number of people. Innovation in structural systems.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

The system, they instinctively conclude, is beneficent. The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession. job market has taken since 2008, this is understandable. percentage in 2011: 21.9). Given the beating the U.S.

Organization 8

Organization Trends Long-term Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. They think their systems work, so they follow the adage, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

While there are many classic leadership books that are still relevant today – like Good to Great and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and a flooded market of other business books , I wanted to share …. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2011 edition). • What are we not doing that we need to do?

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Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 113

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While it’s tempting to group China and India together as a block of emerging digital markets, they offer several important distinctions, especially for international entities and countries looking to invest. It is also the world’s largest market for e-commerce. billion citizens.

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Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10