Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

While my colleagues and I vehemently agree that HR’s status quo is an inhibitor to growth, it is with the same fervor that we disagree with Ram’s proposed solution. Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Even HR itself agrees.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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. Will there be progress in this regard? This looks unlikely.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. He has proposed reforms, such as tax breaks for mining firms and commercial farmers, aiming to assist export-oriented businesses and earn Zimbabwe much-need hard currency. Years of economic mismanagement. It is not yet clear which direction the new government will take.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. 3) Demonstrate the state of the proposed solution from the standpoint of the user in periodic reviews (called “playbacks”). Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

In the spring of 2014, we proposed a radical approach: offer anyone on staff – over 2,500 individuals, many of them union members – the chance to shape the library through strategic conversations with senior leaders. Leadership would shape the conversation to ensure proposals were strategically on-point.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Common pitfalls are a lack of cultural understanding between the integrating parties, poor integration leadership, and a focus on the wrong activity set or the wrong targets. The acquiring company wished to retain its operating approach and replicate it within the newly acquired business.

Process 8

Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 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. Administrative leaders experienced with their hospital’s operational network are needed when the necessary new care pathways and processes are disruptive.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

However, they are difficult for organizations to propose, prioritize, and fund. Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. If you incubate an interesting function that starts to grow, move it somewhere else in the operational infrastructure. Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Based on this insight, Gimmy proposed a radical rethinking and new corporate venturing tool to boost corporate innovation: the “venture client” model. Creating the Venture Client Model.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. To achieve those ends, we propose that business leaders support a new agenda, comprising seven areas of opportunity. In 2014 AT&T was among the first companies to experiment on a large scale with targeted online education in data science and computer programming. Firms can help close the loop.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The president made this goal even more formidable by promising that every American would have an electronic health record by 2014. When we released the proposed rule, we did so with a press event in the Great Hall of the Department of Health and Human Services with a packed crowd. Third, we communicated extensively.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

However, I fear the Burr-Feinstein proposal could have just the opposite effect. For example, Carbonite now operates several directly-owned or reseller-owned data centers deployed across Europe. Strong encryption sustains these thriving industries and defends technological leadership on the global stage. billion in 2014 to $4.82

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

To address the combined challenge of increased dynamism and diversity of business environments as well as the proliferation of approaches, we propose a unifying choice framework: the strategy palette. The renewal approach to strategy aims to restore the vitality and competitiveness of a firm when it is operating in a harsh environment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

According to an analysis by Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University, in 2014 nearly one-third of new H-1B visas went to 13 of these so-called “outsourcers.” At least four proposals to reform it have recently surfaced, and USCIS has suspended expedited processing of H-1B applications. What Could Change?

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

His pick for Labor Secretary is staunchly opposed to covering overtime pay or increasing minimum wages (something many leading companies have been doing on their own since 2014. Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy even proposed taxing U.S. goods if the country pulled out the Paris agreement.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8