Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Capture the value of “negawatts.” However, this way of thinking can cause a manager to miss savings opportunities of 10-20% or more of the energy bill just by changing how the building is used and “tuning up” the efficiency of major pieces of equipment. More or less every major company in the U.S.

Management 8

Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. By 5 PM that afternoon, a mere 10 hours later, the completed barn stood atop its foundation. Barn-raising can serve as a model for successful new value creation in today’s hyper-connected world.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. Martin was, however, $193 million in 2014 and $232 million in 2015.

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It really struck a nerve: The associated video has been viewed 25,000 times, a corresponding hashtag has logged over 4 million impressions, and more than 600 physicians have posted impassioned comments to an online sounding board. In this post, we’ll describe how we did this at Privia Health, in collaboration with athenahealth.

How To 8

How To Health Care Insurance Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. This is increasingly risky, as contingent and other non-full-time workers possess more of your vital strategic skills and deal with sensitive intellectual property. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

While you may have discovered your “type,” “profile,” or “style,” it probably did little to make you a more effective leader or team member. One key facet is self-knowledge – how we see our various personality traits, values, attitudes, and behaviors. would indicate total accuracy).

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Business Simulation Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination. Sahlman describe impact investing as the new venture capital , implying that it will, in the next 5 to 10 years, make its way into mainstream financial portfolios, unlocking billions or trillions of dollars in new capital. Sir Ronald Cohen and HBS Professor William A.

Development 8

Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In other words, very little of the estimated $2 trillion black money estimated to be stashed overseas has been captured. Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.”

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 trillion in 2014 alone. trillion of this value — exerting a larger economic impact than the global trade in physical goods. Consider how global value chains are evolving.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Reorganizations can be a useful management tool for finding new value and are often essential as part of a merger or acquisition integration. To help maximize the value and minimize the misery of reorgs, we have developed a five-step process for running them. In our experience, the latter is usually more important.

Process 8

Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

The book was one of the rare instances where an economist was able to capture public imagination and focus debate on big-picture economic issues. We have only rarely seen its like since — although Thomas Piketty gave it a great go in 2014, with Capital in the Twenty-First Century. I wanted to grow up to be like him.

Power 8

Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

HBR’s resulting list of the 100 Global CEOs who have delivered the best financial results, published in its November 2014 issue, placed Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos squarely at the top. Next, we set out to examine more closely the relationship between HBR’s financial indicators and our non-financial indicators of performance.

CEO 8

CEO Reputation Metrics EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2015

Now that everything we do at work can be observed, measured, tracked, and reported — thanks to sensing technologies and cheap processing power — more organizations are relying heavily on “the data” to manage employees’ performance. Still, Schwall thought his team could achieve more.

Sports 8

Sports Metrics Retail CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

It was based on a statistic related to announcement day effect that failed to capture the reality of corporate value creation. M&A does boost companies’ growth and value, our new research shows, but the bet-the-company deal isn’t the route to success. Indeed, infrequent large deals do tend to hurt value creation.

CAGR 8

CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Combined, they have spent more than $20 billion in the past 12 months alone to change the way people in China shop. The precise value of their investments cannot be determined, given that many of them are undisclosed or private deals. It is data that will help Walmart build more sophisticated consumer profiles. Costco, the U.S.-based

Retail 8

Retail Marketing Supply Chain Licensing 8