Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

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% Due to the limited number of postgraduate medical programs and lack of trained specialists, health workers are often required to practice beyond their scope of training.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Globalization Mayo 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

But we got returns on our investment as well: Our employees were proud of the company and eager to participate; the disaster areas provided some of the best training on how to solve complex dilemmas; and of course the reputation of the company improved tremendously. Our professional support made the WFP function better.

Social Capital 13

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. Consider, too, that when threats materialize at large-scale events, the damage often spills over to other parties.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

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. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model.

Microfinance 10

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

We trained a machine learning algorithm to predict directors’ performance, using a dataset of large publicly traded U.S. We found that firms tend to choose directors who are much more likely to be male, have a large network, have a lot of board experience, currently serve on more boards, and have a finance background.

Company 9

Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Goldman Sachs did something it had never done in its venerable 143-year history. For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Once a policy is in place, training is critical. It tweeted. "We Follow us here for updates on our work, our research, and our people.".

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 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. At Opportunity International , where the focus is on providing loans, savings, insurance, and related training to clients in the world's poorest communities, our major donors like to see the work up close.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 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. Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder.

Organization 8

Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

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

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

For example, the two parties identified the challenge of national electrification and committed to work together to bring $10 billion of investment and 10,000 megawatts of new power online, along with local manufacturing and training. IBM is doing something similar in data analytics. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even though banks now file 20 times more suspicious activity reports linked to money laundering than they did in 2012, AI tools have permitted them to shrink the armies of people they employ to evaluate alerts for suspicious activities.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 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. The real issue was the extent to which the management team was willing to devote time and resources for training, documentation, communication, and all the other aspects of a major change effort.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

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. In some respect, every person's compensation is configured as a base plus commission.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. It reorganized its sales force to focus on specific segments within the hospital market, and trained both its sales and service teams (which now visited sites early in the sales cycle) on outcome-based selling. Here’s how: Identifying good customers.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 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. The Walmart bribery scandal is one of the most closely-watched cases of alleged malfeasance by a global company.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I recently published research from the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project , comparing Wharton’s Classes of 1992 and 2012. It’s worth noting that these percentages are essentially the same for both men and women, both in 1992 and in 2012. mean at the time — the average 2012 graduate planned to have only 1.7.

Policies 11

Policies Health Care Education Career 11

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.

Pharmaceuticals 13

Pharmaceuticals Banking Objective Incentives 13

HR Digest

JANUARY 22, 2022

Human resource manager roles and responsibilities include overseeing an organization’s payroll system and hiring practices and its staffing levels and employee training programs. Training and development. On the other hand, the employment of managers fell during 2017–18, after growing steadily since 2012. Leadership.

Management 52

Management Human Resources Strategic Planning Skills 52

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extends certain middle class incentives and credits such as the Earned Income Credit and Coverdell Education Savings credit.

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

billion, or 17% of settlements, in 2012. Economy Finance Risk management' The percentage take tends to go up as the settlement amounts get smaller — overall, NERA reports that plaintiff’s attorneys pocketed $1.13 Defense attorney costs are harder to get at, but indications are that they add up to another 10% or more of settlements.

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8

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. They also found that wages for immigrants in STEM have actually increased: In 1990 native-born STEM workers earned more than immigrants; by 2012, this reversed.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

The next day, Jay visited the board member he knew best, Fred Keeler, a gastroenterologist who had been trained at Harvard. The statement cited Cerberus Capital Management’s unsuccessful attempts to shed its investment in the company that made the weapon used in the 2012 elementary-school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8