Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Employers increasingly focus on employee wellness, on one side, and disease management, on the other. A third signal is that health care financing is testing these pathways too. What Business Are We In?

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And while some question whether such special treatment is appropriate , it’s clear that this group has outsize influence: high-performers have been estimated to be four times as productive as average workers, and research has shown that they may generate 80% of a business’s profits and attract other star employees.

Attrition 8

Attrition Charisma Cost Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Smisek, for example, resigned in the scandal of a federal investigation into whether United Airlines had unduly influenced David Samson, the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Samson eventually pleaded guilty to a bribery charge this year). It wasn’t always like this. By 1986 about a third of the largest 250 U.S.

Golden Parachute 8

Golden Parachute Hostile Takeover Airlines Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

At the current rate, 2012 will easily see more disputes than in the two previous years combined. As business managers know, tariffs and quotas take time to shift sales from foreign to domestic sources—time they don't have during financial crises, as the credit needed to make payroll and to pay for parts and components dries up.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Determining how much to share about your finances with your kids and when to do so can be a tough call. A 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Missy Sullivan references a 2012 study by U.S. Many high-wealth parents put off having conversations about money. Show that work is important. They’re right to be worried.

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Budgeting Long-term 8

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. Our networks tend to tilt toward our own gender, and men are more likely to be in positions of influence in organizations. I got used to my husband managing an awesome array of details at home. It’s a small club.

Rogers 8

Rogers Career Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

A 2012 industry survey asked top hospital leaders (CEOs, COOs, and others) what was necessary to improve the patient experience. If he doesn’t feel that his caregivers are compassionate, that may heavily influence his overall perception of the experience. Dig deeper into patients’ experiences.

Health Care 9

Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

At one point during argument on April 16, 2012, Justice Scalia said of the plaintiff salespeople: "They look like salesmen to me," while Chief Justice Roberts commented, after one exchange, that "they don't make sales," presumably because sales calls do not lead to a "binding commitment" from the doctors. Consider this example.

Pharmaceuticals 13

Pharmaceuticals Banking Objective Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8