Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

housing finance system since it was created more than 40 years ago (More about Mary at the end of this post). To succeed in industries like finance, tech or law enforcement, women must have determination and perpetual motivation. percent of board seats as of mid-year 2012. I promise you will be happy with the results.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Discover how organizations are significantly cutting costs and saving time with an automated travel and expense management process in this special webinar from Concur and Business Finance Magazine. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%). Complimentary Resource – Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 13, 2012

AND, the great news is that ALL of these great men will be speaking LIVE at the Funded And Free Church Leader Conference in Charlotte, NC on Thursday, April 19, 2012! Injoy Stewardship Solutions has partnered with some other great organizations to provide this conference absolutely FREE for church leaders. Want even better news?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2014

In so many organizations, finance, economics and the pursuit of individual prosperity continue to be the only subjects worthy of respect and concentration. Do I mean that we must abandon our focus on finance and economics and Individual prosperity? Note: This post was originally published in May, 2012. It used to work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

If you cannot remember the last time you had a glass of organic wine, you are hardly alone. Overall, less than 5% of the world’s vineyards are organic. In the United States, the world’s largest consumer of wine, only 1% of wine sold by volume was organic. Why the difference? Early Struggles.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." And so historically, attempts at controlling the industry's bad habits have also involved restricting what different institutions can do, and how they are organized. Savings and insurance institutions were usually organized as mutuals.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many e-learning organizations try to transfer traditional learning methods (classroom training or video) directly into e-learning. For example, some leaders may need to change behavior; others may need functional training in marketing or finance. Experience difficulties while searching for high-quality leadership development tools.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Followed by an Epilogue – Managing Identities within organizations. That identity and communities of origin should change to communities of aspiration - increasingly important in the connected 2012 and beyond. Celia de Anca is a professor of Islamic finance at IE Business School in Spain. Worth a Read? About the author.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Next, the organizations looked outside for models that showed evidence of results in related fields.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

The study explores net growth in private-sector business establishments from 2001 to 2012, ranking the best and worst states for new establishments post-recession and shedding light on national trends. The number of private-sector business establishments grew just 2 percent from 2009 to 2012 after growing 12 percent from 2001 to 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Here are three lessons every organization should learn from what the leading companies are doing: Delineate the skills and capabilities that will be required to win in the future, based on your company’s strategy. But building a winning workforce for tomorrow starts today. Harnessing this data requires new skills and capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

After all, it’s the CFO who typically sets expectations about growth to investors and then allocates resources to ensure their organizations deliver. So if the organization is going to invest in longer-term growth, this could increase the stock’s beta — both in downside risk and upside reward. Similarly, Corning Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. I intend and would like to stay at this organization for a year or longer. Make it personal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

We are a membership organization consisting of over 200 companies worldwide — including all of the Big Four accountants. This post is based partly on a speech Peter Bakker gave at The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Forum on December 13, 2012. This is not a matter of incremental change, but a radical transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Our organizations are involved in the efforts to expand global access. The data that is available, such as a 2012 study of over 15,000 patient records from 26 African and Middle Eastern hospitals, produce alarming results: 6.8% We encourage others to join us in this effort and offer three recommendations for accelerating this drive.

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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. If health care is only a small part of what determines health, perhaps organizations in the business of delivering health need to expand their offerings. What Business Are We In? bankruptcy court.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc., We expect to see more communication from employers to employees in the future ( our 2012 National Pollis set to release in early 2013). And yes, it can be difficult to navigate our nation's evolving campaign finance laws.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, company-wide variables, such as culture and engagement , play a big role in determining the fate of organizations, so why should we pay CEOs so highly and obsess over which ones are the best ? Recent large-scale studies highlight the effects of CEOs on their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The term “company DNA” is sometimes used as a shorthand for an organization’s culture and strategy — a metaphor for what makes it unique. We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. Second, DNA does not change over the life of an organism.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. Under long-standing policy, the IRS does not disclose the donors to these organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Accountable Care Organization (ACO) models in both the private and the public sectors are rewarding providers for lowering the overall costs of care and keeping patients healthy. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The 2012 batch includes CEOs sending memos explaining whose platform they think will help the organization thrive (and encouraging employees to vote accordingly, lest jobs be lost) and even one who sent his people to a rally. Focus is not only part of what makes an individual powerful, it is vital to an organization's success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

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. In a 2012 study , Notre Dame researchers found that green buildings saved money and increased revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

But according to a recent working paper from Harvard Business School, there’s another group that can have an even greater effect on organizations: toxic workers. Still, they aren’t likely to help the organization in the long term. Avoiding toxicity. “We often think of hiring and evaluation as one or two dimensions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

PBGH is a non-profit, employer-led organization that represents public and employer healthcare purchasers, including numerous Fortune 100 companies. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. In late 2012 Geisinger initiated ProvenCare Lumbar Spine.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. Organizations (and countries) in crisis really wake up only on the edge of the precipice.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. SPINs is a retail measurement company that covers the natural and organic grocers. When he bought it in 2012 it had $93 million in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

The use of pain killers increased by 50% from 2006 to 2012 and one recent estimate put the cost of physical pain on the U.S. Asking poor people to think about their finances impairs their cognitive performance, while the rich show no change. The United States is in a pain crisis.

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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. Faced with the task of understanding the drivers of patient experience, health care organizations have taken — and can take — multiple approaches to discerning the drivers of patient experience.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The junk bond market made financing large takeovers possible and even the biggest among the Fortune 500 firms were no longer safe from a forced acquisition. Ailes’s reported payout came after a raft of sexual harassment allegations and a lawsuit by former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson (who received a $20 million settlement ).

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