Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Half of Americans continue to work when they reach their mid-sixties, and, according to a 2015 Gallup survey, full-time American employees work an average of 47 hours a week. A different pattern emerges starting one’s late fifties, showing a peak of gratitude for topics related to finances and benefits.

Finance 16

Finance Career Video Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Up until the 1960s, scholars viewed diversification as a valuable strategy. We believe it was because corporate strategy reflects the views of top decision makers, and therefore change in strategy follows from changes in these views or from a new crop of decision makers — both of which can lag behind business schools’ teachings.

Influence 9

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. In fact, AI has freed up the staff to write more in-depth stories on business trends.

Company 10

Company Survey Finance Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. Electricity generation and transportation each constitute around 30% of total emissions, with industrial sources making up 20% of total emissions. Teslas will continue to be in demand, and conservatives in the Houston heat can crank up their air conditioning.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. Years of economic mismanagement.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The grueling testimonies from CEO John Stumpf, coupled with insights from my industry-wide research into the culture and mindsets of bankers, suggest there is a blind spot among senior leaders at Wells Fargo, as well as deterrents to speaking up among the rank and file. ” Deterrents to speaking up. Why risk it?

Banking 8

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 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. dollars — or wait it out for another two months and hope that the ruble recovers, since that would give him a leg up on his competitors.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is significant — there were 6,822 claims of sexual harassment in 2015. They cited it as a cost to being attractive, and few spoke up for themselves or others. Why were many Fox employees initially so reluctant to stand up for Carlson? Fear of retaliation.

Report 8

Report Long-term Training Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For example, if I found that satisfaction in 2015 was associated with high profits in 2016, it could be that high profits in 2015 led to both high satisfaction in 2015 and also high profits in 2016. After doing so, I end up with my 2.3% The same issue arises when studying firm value (e.g. annual outperformance.

Long-term 8

Long-term Marketing Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

In one telling case , construction workers went home at the end of the week as employees only to be informed on the following Monday that, perhaps by the magic of some unknown force, they had become, “member/owners” of hundreds of limited liability companies, effectively stripping them of federal and state job protections.

Document 10

Document Insurance Construction Cooper 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2015, Boeing launched the Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop AI technology for airlines. How the best companies get up to speed. Following the lifecycle shows you all of the steps, systems, and stakeholders involved. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

USP 8

USP Airlines Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. The ACA legislation addressed this by establishing different financing models.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For some, each day feels like waking up to a holiday song — “children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after smile.” According to a 2015 Healthline survey , 44% of people say that they are stressed during the holidays, with more than 18% reporting that they’re “very stressed.” And the U.S.

Stress 9

Stress Team Survey Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations. .

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Building a large-scale biopharmaceutical facility requires up to $500 million. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. If the AI you are adopting employs machine learning, you will have to round up a substantial amount of training data. In short, the winners may take all and late adopters may never catch up.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

They have given their social media staff a clear mission and a great deal of autonomy; the account’s managers chat with customers, offer up front to solve problems, and empathize with frustrated travelers. The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Sadly, however, given the daunting business survival statistics, most businesses never get an opportunity to scale up. Of those few that do begin to scale, the effort to scale up often fails to last, and the all-too-familiar roller-coaster of life in business heads, or threatens to head, downhill. He wanted out. Making the Decision.

Media 8

Media Hammer Software Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The policy of propping up banks has been expensive, in some cases near ruinous for smaller countries (i.e. Tucker believes that recovery and resolution plans should reduce the direct hit to public finances following a bank's failure or distress, while also containing the system-wide impact. Iceland, Ireland).

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. Company responses have not followed a uniform playbook. When governmental policy undercuts such values, companies feel obligated to speak up.

CEO 8

CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Even families without the up-front capital can rely on zero-money-down financing programs , like those offered by Solar City and other solar lease providers. Consumers can buy modules and install them in small quantities, providing up to 1 kW of power. solar in 2015. We suggest that a blanket federal U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Energy System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 I chalk up the success of Vanguard’s Personal Advisor Services to several factors. Emergent firms would do well to follow their example. The world faces many complex problems.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

The key provisions of the bill are as follows: Employers would be allowed to run genetic tests on their employees and their families as part of participatory wellness programs and to fine those who refuse to participate. The chair of the Health Project , an industry-financed group that evaluates wellness programs and annually bestows the C.

Insurance 8

Insurance Committee Power Cost 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 What exactly makes up these cross-border digital flows? They have greater flexibility to hire specialized talent and follow pockets of demand growth wherever they find them.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. Like any policy, wage insurance isn’t a cure-all.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape. Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Following are steps that we have seen work in a number of companies to simplify their analytics strategy and generate insight that leads to real outcomes: Accelerate the data: Fast data = fast insight = fast outcomes. Real-time delivery of analytics speeds up the execution velocity and improves the service quality of an organization.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 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. But it was the following decade’s internet boom that made this approach attractive and gave Dell a second burst of growth.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. The food and agriculture system takes up 40% of the world’s land and produces at least 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. raised wages to $9 an hour (and they’ll be $10 in 2015), and in June IKEA lifted its minimum wage by 17%.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

These include the following: Not enough port container capacity. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Highways can’t keep up with demand. A looming crisis. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

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. It has always required people to stand up and make it a priority.” And many diversity programs fail.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

But Karen was unhappy with a phone call she’d received earlier from a hospital representative who had requested a “good faith payment” – making her feel as if we didn’t trust her to show up for her surgery. Implementing the program has of course required careful attention to both human and process issues.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Also prominent in this sector are social movements, for example the Salt March that eventually led to Indian independence, and the social initiatives that are driving so many constructive changes these days, from the Grameen Bank for the micro-financing of the poor to the Khan Academy for the extension of free education. Finding Our Balance.

Cooper 8

Cooper Politics Globalization Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. But to build toward its future state vision, and scale up its insurance business, the organization sought and won licenses in D.C. billion in 2010 to $4.9

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8