The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, the research also highlights the significance of diverse educational, industrial, and organizational backgrounds among managers and board members in fostering innovation in research and development (R&D), thereby generating both economic and social value. ”

Diversity 93

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 93

Chris Brady

AUGUST 16, 2010

 No one else who picked the winner got another top 3 pick correct, and those who picked more than one of the top 3 didn't manage to get the correct winner. Then watching another thirty two countries compete in 2014-Brazil for the final.  And the winner is.  And the winner is. Dreaming Big again. Clink - Clink*.

Letter 50

Letter Sports Open-book Blog 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Consider the case of a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Classic leadership lessons apply. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. Systemic problems that affect everyone but are beyond the ability of any one person to solve require collaboration skills.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve?

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. has renewed its product lines many times. Here’s why.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In every organization and every sector, hiring managers want to find the best people they can. ” The World Economic Forum’s “21st Century Skills” report illustrates “a problem in skill supply,” with “more than a third of global companies report[ing] difficulties filling open positions in 2014.”

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Report Skills Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations. Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. 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

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. Not surprisingly, the particular aspects of managing human capital that are most important vary by sector.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. ” In contrast, the CEO explained the leadership changes as necessary to “respond to the fast-changing needs” of customers, employees and partners and to “transform our business for the future.”

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 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. Monsanto’s Hugh Grant suffers most heavily when ranked by this more holistic assessment of how his company has fared under his leadership.

CEO 8

CEO Reputation Metrics EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context. It’s not just products.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Business development, contracting, and finance personnel are also required. What does a healthcare system look like that earns one of these contracts?

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

One day in December 2014, Sergey, the Russia general manager for a multinational consumer goods company, was up early in the morning, watching the ruble’s value slide by the minute. of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

In 2014, global political volatility reached an intensity not seen since the end of the Cold War. The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And America’s willingness to weaponize finance has grown substantially as a consequence. Russia and Ukraine. Iran and Syria. The Sony hack by North Korea.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people. The small size of unicorns allows the top management teams to be directly and deeply involved in most of the strategic decisions, which are then implemented through a flat organization. Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 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. It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. But in April, just after U.S. a competitive edge in the global war for tech talent.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) The finance sector has also been active in responding on all five occasions. Second, many companies have invested substantial time and money in establishing uncompromising core values such as diversity and inclusion.

CEO 8

CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8