HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

What can employers do to see that this workforce is given maximum benefits to enact the dual role efficiently and comfortably? According to 2016 numbers, in the finance and insurance industries, 37% of workers have access to some form of paid family leave. were able to access paid family leave in 2016.

Absenteeism 105

Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

RxAnte , Evolent , and Humedica are just three of the many new companies seizing the opportunity to help old players comply with new policy standards that focus on improving outcomes and efficiency. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Likewise, Nebia — a start-up water-efficient showerhead maker in San Francisco — recently scored investment money from Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s family foundation. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In comparison to larger firms, small businesses are less well equipped to efficiently navigate the loan process  in economic parlance, their search costs are higher.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down. Deutsche Bank felt compelled to explain there was a good reason (in this case increased efficiency through e-learning).

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Rollout in late 2013 was rocky for the federal exchange (and for some state exchanges when they first launched). The average credit was $270 per month. Burwell, the U.S.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013. . “I see the sparkle in the eyes of a few.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Booth and Banks each invested $20,000 to start a company that could ship heavy home-improvement products more efficiently. Sales doubled in 2013. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. There is tons of evidence, much of it compiled by the formulator of the efficient market hypothesis, Eugene Fama , that value investing works. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

will not be legalized until 2013). The kinds of start-ups that can most quickly and efficiently attract these funds (and garner the most money per campaign) are, the report goes on to specify, those that offer digital goods like software applications, games, films, and literature.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP). Lee Hodges/Getty Images. >. Diabetes has long been one of the most expensive medical conditions.

Class 8

Class Insurance Cost Health Care 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.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 hours a day. Flash Fill (30 minutes to learn).

Bottom-up 15

Bottom-up Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

Over the long term, markets are efficient and generally increase in value. On one day — May 17, 2013 — over $100 million changed hands before the rest of the public even knew an event had occurred. Computer networks are working faster and more efficiently than the markets can bear. Finance Internet Technology'

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Long-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% in 2012; 5.4%

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Platform businesses bring together producers and users in efficient exchanges of value – Uber, for example, connects drivers and passengers just as YouTube connects videographers and viewers. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

A witty comment or botched response on Twitter can travel to Facebook and even news websites in minutes (think of the Oreo tweet during the Superbowl blackout of 2013 ). After all, management exists to transform corporations into more efficient machines. Efficiencies are made the expense of humanity.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. And we repeated this efficient process for other reforms, including complicated financial and regulatory decisions. Six Guiding Principles. How did we achieve this Sisyphean task?

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are two stories you can tell about finance in America. The number of companies targeted by activist hedge funds has increased dramatically since then, to more than 200 in 2013. So far the story is financiers allocating resources well, making firms more efficient, thereby helping the economy overall.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. In this category, we primarily looked at three subcategories: inputs (financing options, talent retention, startup capacity), process (how sophisticated are firms’ business processes, and what’s the level of R&D?), Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” I disagree with this priority. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. The ACA legislation addressed this by establishing different financing models.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8