Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Set an aspirational stretch goal that is within reach, but only if things change. Good execution requires a “Sharp focus and commitment to a few clearly identified goals.” They are: Sharp focus and commitment to a few clearly identified goals. Don’t treat your stated strategy as a given if it’s not.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

And now, more than ever, everyone seems committed to dismantling discrimination. Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. In both the 2015 and 2018 reports, McKinsey delivered bad news to companies with poor diversity.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. President to visit India twice. It’s not just frothy internet startups that are doing well in India today.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Have a commitment toward knowledge enhancement. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. Leverage technology to allow diagnoses to be made, in many cases, at the initial point of care. As Harvard Business School professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio. Embedding the values of your commitment into every aspect of your organization requires strong leadership to uphold these values.

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Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C The UN then asked the IPCC to study what it would take to achieve that goal.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

While 38 companies joined the unicorn ranks in the second half of 2015, only 19 made it into the club in the first half of 2016. Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Systems conceived and built 50-60 years ago should be reimagined for the 20 th century, whether high speed trains, innovative public transit, or technology-enabled roads and vehicles that tap the potential of sensors, smartphones, wireless networks, and Big Data for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility. infrastructure problems.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Based on evidence that diversity initiatives are more effective if they start at the top , I interviewed 11 CEOs who have made a public commitment to diversity about how they are creating more diverse workforces. Similarly, in 2015 Techstars committed to doubling the representation of women and minorities in their programs within four years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Ever since the idea of strategy came to the business world in the early 1960s, the goal of differentiation has been paramount. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions. Timed text messages help the smoker cope with cravings, encourage longer practice-quit commitments, and applaud successes.

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Health Care Insurance Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Like leading the way in cup technology with the first U.S. We found that people who were already highly committed to the environmental cause being called out in the message were less likely to be influenced by a consumer-praising message, as their self-image was less likely to rise further as a result of the praise. Good for you, you.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

“Just as technology and entrepreneurship have transformed the way we live, applying investment and business tools to social problems is disrupting everything from philanthropy to governments to investing.” From Method to Warby Parker, they list positive societal impact alongside profit as a top-line goal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. From these, they learned to stay committed to the market, protect their margins, make some selective investments, and wait for the recovery.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Sites like Delicious, Flickr and 43Things were ushering in the new phenomenon of “user-generated content,” and technologies like RSS and tagging were providing new ways for regular web users to organize and share content. Is that still the right advice in 2015?

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Fashion Blog Audience Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. None of these guidelines will be useful without commitment to a long-term vision and strategy. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

Automakers have committed $225 billion for electric vehicles in the next five years. Global malaria mortality has dropped by 60% between 2000 and 2015. Future Crunch founders 3 min video clip on how science and technology is dramatically improving our world. billion m³ between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. With that goal, we thought carefully about each of our clinical service lines: Are we the best at this service line?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. A 2015 study from McKinsey and LeanIn.org found that “women in senior management are seven times more likely than men at the same level to say they do more than half of the housework.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Despite all the region’s positive trends, it has a large underbanked and underconnected population, three-fifths of whom live on less than $4 (PPP) per day in 2015, according to United Nations International Labor Organization estimates. must take action, then set individual targets or commitments accordingly.

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Benchmarking Policies Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

To the firm, I was the “ ideal worker ” — a phrase sociologists use to describe a problematic archetype of a fully committed employee with no personal “entanglements.” As an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the 90s, work came before everything else. “Is this normal? Redistribute work more evenly.

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Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

We’ve omitted attributions to protect the well-meaning writers who unwittingly committed the errors). ” In a 2015 American Heritage Dictionary survey of language experts, 79% disapproved of using “impacts on” to mean “affect.” begs the question. ” Does it make a difference?

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Press Release PR Definition Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

Europe’s union took a potentially fatal blow, while North America committed to a deeper relationship: Canada, the U.S., and Mexico issued a joint commitment to building a clean economy. The biggest commitments are: Generating 50% clean power by 2025. So the goal is tough, but achievable. must lead on renewables.

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Energy Price Cooper Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. raised wages to $9 an hour (and they’ll be $10 in 2015), and in June IKEA lifted its minimum wage by 17%.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

The fraction of global manufacturing done in Asia (measured by value added) jumped from 29% in 2000 to 45% in 2015. One high profile example is Walmart’s commitment to source an additional $250 billion in products made, assembled, or grown in the United States. Advances in manufacturing technology. Census Bureau data.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. Every country committed to action in the form of the Paris Agreement. After 2015 shattered climate records , 2016 got even hotter and more extreme, creating weather events that brought physical destruction, massive economic costs, and loss of life.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8