Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

metropolitan area — 381 in this case — annually between 2009 and 2014, looking only at “first fundings,” or initial rounds of professional venture investment (those most closely associated with starting-up). The average deal size trended down each year from 2009, until shooting back up again in 2014.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Sharpe Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In A 2014 McKinsey & Co. This post is part of a series leading up to the annual Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 2014 in Vienna, Austria.

Drucker 14

Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian For instance, a 2014 law mandates that the government must show preference for local manufacturers over foreign firms when granting public tenders, without regard to differences in quality. ” Similarly, hours after the U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Unsurprisingly, the collapse in oil prices since the summer of 2014 has raised concerns over the long-term stability of the GCC economies, even more so in view of what may yet be a prolonged period of low oil prices. The recent sharp decline in the oil price has undoubtedly altered the economic outlook for the GCC economies as a whole.

GDP 8

GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Mark Thompson – New York Times bestselling author, coach, investor and advisor to leaders who are transforming their companies—from Virgin’s Richard Branson and Apple’s Steve Jobs, to Pinterest founder Evan Sharp. Marcia Blenko – Advisory partner at Bain & Company. Her focus is organization, decision effectiveness and leadership.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Their future prosperity, however, will depend on sharp increases in domestic consumer spending. Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth (HBR Press, February 2014). Ten Predictions for China’s Economy in 2014. There will still be significant new infrastructure needs for the over 60% of China’s population living there.

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

’” It’s sharp. In the fall of 2014, one of our judges, Matt Sterenberg, was picked as a finalist for the real New Yorker caption contest. It is an image of a familiar red-and-white-shirted man with matching cap and wooden cane. He sits at a bar. The caption states, “Nobody ever asks ‘ How’s Waldo?’”

Creativity 8

Creativity Class Sharpe Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015.

Health Care 8

Health Care Parcell Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1. Keep a laser sharp focus on gross margin. Ratings on other countries and companies are more likely to improve than deteriorate. If your budget was created for economic headwinds, then now is the time to revisit your assumptions. Keep the pressure on productivity.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

As a result, my company Frontier Strategy Group has forecasted Russia’s economy to grow at an average of around 1% YOY during the next three years (lower than its 3% YOY growth between 2006 and 2014) — not the rapid bounce-back companies are hoping for. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Consumer Healthcare Data Aggregation and Predictive Analytics business, and build awareness and adoption in order to achieve $X million revenues in 2014″ This fictitious example already signals that 2014 will be about building a product, marketing it, and demonstrating key customer willingness-to-pay by targeting a tangible revenue goal.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Analysis Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

This past winter, I had the distinct honor of meeting activist Kailash Satyarthi , the co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. Recently another seemingly intractable problem — but one that businesses could eradicate — came to my attention.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Licensing Sharpe Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The folks who are willing to ask and answer the tough questions are the ones who keep you sharp, keep you moving forward, and keep you honest. In 2014, it was catapulted into the limelight and had surpassed $3 billion. The future is far out, until it isn’t. That growth can even happen as companies scale.

Execution 8

Execution Venture Capitalist Software CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In sharp contrast, European network operators who are unable to recover their investments continue to fall farther behind. had 100 million wired broadband connections at the end of 2014, almost four times that of second-place Japan. The result is that the U.S. Already, 30% of these connections are 25 Mbps or faster.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

The Meritor decision, in turn, led to a sharp increase in employers arguing that they should not be liable if they had an anti-harassment policy and complaint procedure in place. Later, Brent Nakamura and I coded and analyzed a follow-up representative sample of 164 court decisions at five-year intervals after 1999: 2004, 2009, and 2014.

Policies 8

Policies Human Resources Compliance Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This all came into a sharp focus when I realized, to my horror (but probably not to my surprise), that I had read just four books in all of 2014. My stress had an electronic feel to it, as if it was made up of the very bits and bytes on my screens. And I was exhausted. That’s one book a quarter. A third of a book per month.

Books 8

Books Stress Energy Information 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Based on weighted estimates, 92 million, or 37.8%, of American adults used prescription opioids the prior year (2014); 11.5 But since the 1970s , rural communities have been affected by a sharp decline in manufacturing jobs. million, or 4.7%, misused them; and 1.9 million, or 0.8%, had a use disorder. By comparison, there are 17.1

Insurance 8

Insurance Survey Pharmaceuticals Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

These soaring rates of phone-usage coincide with a sharp decline in taking time off from work. By 2014, 42% of Americans were telling pollsters they had not taken a single day off in the past year. One in ten of us even admits to using them while having sex.

Stress 8

Stress Peer Review Survey Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

dollars in the Venezuelan economy since oil prices started to plunge in April 2014. It is the second smallest market in Latin America — a sharp difference compared with only a few years ago, when it used to compete with markets such as Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as the third largest market in the region, after Brazil and Mexico.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8