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.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

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. An enormous body of literature supports the view that differences in health are determined as much by the social circumstances that underlie them as by the biologic processes that mediate them. What Business Are We In?

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

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

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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.".

Price 12

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

There is a popular, but erroneous, notion that when employers communicate with employees about issues, candidates and the political process, that this is somehow inherently corrupting to that process. In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc.,

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

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. ” What is the process to be selected as a site?

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

For anyone involved in the sales process, a case before the U.S. In our view, sales is a complex and multi-step process, and the fact that a salesperson may not participate in one of these steps shouldn't change the basic perception of his role in the value chain. The salesperson is still a vital link in this process.

Pharmaceuticals 12

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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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

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. They want to experience first-hand the process by which their dollars are put to work breaking cycles of poverty and building cycles of financial security. percent lower than its value in 2007.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

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

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.

Company 8

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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.

Company 9

Company Insurance Engineering Software 9

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.

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

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. However, blueprinting care processes is not enough. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Cost 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. Many people, including quite a few U.S. But was it?

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

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. What they don't understand is that the process can work the other way. It also makes no sense because.

How To 8

How To Politics Influence Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In the first half of 2012, thousands of merger and acquisition deals were announced globally, worth more than $900 billion. This thought-process will smoke out your assumptions about how much change you think the company needs. Are acquisitions part of your company's growth plan? Odds are the answer is yes. And this was a slow year.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2006 study of mock juries, for example, when black people were added to the jury, white jurors processed the case facts more carefully and deliberated more effectively. The effect partially explains that we gain greater appreciation of songs or paintings when they become familiar because they’re more easily processed.

Diversity 8

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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.

Company 12

Company Politics Policies Proposal 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. Previously, Alphatech considered any organization in which workers used laptops as a prospect. Creating the right sales processes and incentives. Next, Alphatech set out to redesign its sales processes in order to support its new strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

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.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the summer of 2012, the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Hospital recruited me to be its inaugural chair. Our eight-person senior leadership committee, led by the department chair (me) and a hospital senior VP, outlined three core functions: quality, operations, and process improvement (PI). Where We Started.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As Amar Bhide said in " Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups " (a 20-year-old HBR article that is an uncanny precursor to today's "lean startup" meme), traditional business planning processes are less relevant to bootstrappers — where resilience trumps planning and energy trumps experience. Purpose and Passion.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Planning Taylorism Taylor 8

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. The same is true for the private sector.

Cost 8

Cost Document Finance Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

There are hundreds of provider organizations the world over that have already implemented outcomes measurement, and this number increases every week. 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 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. 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

For example, the rapidly evolving field of biomimicry examines nature's models and processes to help solve human problems. In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda. Breakthrough Finance.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Hyperspecialization can be far more productive than current approaches for organizing knowledge work and can also ease talent shortages. And for citizens of advanced countries, we imagined there would be plenty of work designing and overseeing the hyperspecialization process. to emerging economies.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. Patchwork attempts to mitigate or repair our broken information management processes do not get to the core of the issue. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And despite the Global Impact Investing Network's recent report that over $8 billion was invested by impact investors in 2012, it is still common to hear a lot of complaints from both sides: investors bemoan the lack of quality deal flow and social entrepreneurs say it's difficult to find interested investors.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Case Study Globalization 8