Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

And though the idea of VCs abandoning cleantech has been around since at least early 2012 , I was initially skeptical. “Clearly all of this reflects some sober reevaluation of the VC role in cleantech finance,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, adding that “We’ve maybe asked too much of VC.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Most companies have been slow to react.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Wouldn't it be nice, Francis Fukuyama writes in an article called " The Future of History " in the current issue of Foreign Affairs , if some "obscure scribbler. I know this because these people are constantly submitting articles to HBR. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere." Note to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. hospitals from treating Medicare patients escalated sharply in 2012, when Congress included Medicare in its budget sequester, and they have remained high since. Tighten the purchase and use of medical technology. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., First, as shown by a recent analysis of 32 technology firms, the personality of CEOs shapes the culture of the organization. To answer this question, I considered several scientific studies of CEO impact.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

We will also convene a forum for CEOs and accountants to discuss and develop large-scale solutions for finance and reporting and are exploring the possibility of developing a world-class training program for CFOs on sustainability. Using Technology and Data for Social Impact. Give Us Feedback and Get a Free HBR Article.

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Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are. They can help ensure that industry participants, regulators, technology innovators, and customers are being kept safe, without trampling on people’s privacy and human rights.

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Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service.

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Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

The company provides services in a myriad of industries, such as health care, water treatment, aviation, and financing. Analyzing nearly 300 research articles that examined the effectiveness of board monitoring, we came to the conclusion that it is unreasonable to expect boards to be able to do an effective job at ongoing monitoring.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. For example, in 2012, Intel, TSMC, and Samsung — three large semiconductor manufacturers based in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In 2012 only about 21% (420,000) of the 2,000,000 stay-at-home fathers in the U.S. It is impossible to overstate how these technological developments have expanded the choices available to many working couples. We decided that our children needed more parental involvement, a scenario faced by many dual-career couples.

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Rogers Career Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm. However, not all investments are equal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Two factors triggered my unease: the trends described by my co-authors and I in our recent HBR article and new work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence. After our article was published, I learned of Spence's new research on the evolving structure of employment in America. to emerging economies. What to do?

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Could technology help? We used a machine learning method called gradient boosting , and then evaluated the results using a separate test dataset of directors who joined firms between 2012 to 2014 who the algorithm did not observe during this “training period.” Nonetheless, boards remain highly imperfect.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. In successful cases like these, CFOs have had to reorient their roles as the “gate-keeper” of a company’s finances. Similarly, Corning Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

For example, the hot technology of the moment, virtual reality (VR), was largely ignored by traditional funders after the disappointment of VR technology in the 1990s. Suddenly, virtual reality was no longer a forgotten ‘90s trend but had become a hot area of technology.

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Venture Capitalist Project Diversity Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new product or technology sells better to all stakeholders if people can be persuaded that it will disrupt the status quo. billion), NDS (the video software provider scooped by Cisco in 2012 for $5 billion), Playtika (the gaming platform bought by Giant Interactive for $4.4 But does the evidence bear out this belief?

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Uncertainty Software Sample Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These questions will clearly take a lot more research than this article. ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. In 2012 she announced to all the employees a re-expression as “ The HP Way Now.” How do you discover your own company’s DNA?

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. Brian Arthur, in his article on the Second Economy , or what he now calls the autonomous economy, estimated that, by 2025, autonomous production would produce goods and services equal to the country’s GNP in 1995, about $7.5 trillion. There are 3.5

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Before the iPhone launched in 2007, HP dominated the handheld calculator space for science and finance. Yet, for all its technological prowess Sony focused too much on products and not enough on creating platforms. As of 2012, Garmin had sold 100 million units after 23 years in the market. What became of Sony’s players?

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. The Start Up Paradox. The Careful-What-You-Wish-For Paradox.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Expertise can be noticed more easily," says Soumitra Dutta, a professor in business and technology at INSEAD, author of "What's Your Personal Social Media Strategy?" The Art of Reinventing Your Personal Brand (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012). Status is much more democratic now. Establish a presence. Case study #1: What boundaries?

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Media Career Tips Content 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. Last year, American campuses produced fewer than 56,000 graduates with the sort of qualifications sought by information technology (IT) firms.”

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Back in 2012, Erasmus’s CEO, Professor Hans Buller, was a huge proponent of VBHC and led the development of the organization’s 5-year VBHC strategy with one of us (Dr. Engaging leadership in the finance domain – representing the denominator of the value equation – is helpful as it will ensure dedicated resources.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. Mihir, you wrote an article for HBR a couple years ago on how to fix the U.S. The corporate inversion — when a U.S. Businesses.” What were some of the other key changes?

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Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Assuming the opt-in take up rate of 25.1%, as reported in my 2012 research with Ehud Peleg and Richard Thaler, that’s an under-statement of more than five million participants (75.4 Digital and mobile technology makes this process feasible on a mass scale. Using the latest Plan Sponsor Council of America data, 22.8%

Tools 8

Tools Participative Planning Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Articles and TV segments about the building and about Jay, the returned native son with a passion for the environment, helped attract local depositors and small borrowers, who’d grown disenchanted with the big national and global banks. But its business was manufacturing lightweight small arms technologies, so-called LSATs, for the U.S.

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Kaufer originally hired editors to comb the Web for great travel articles and link to them, and then allowed users to post their own reviews on the site as a whim. In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor. Think about that.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8