Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Tesla Motor. Automotive. Alphabet (Google). Procter & Gamble. Consumer Goods. Johnson & Johnson. Biotech & Pharma. Walt Disney.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

And so Harry’s has been growing 35% year-on-year between 2014 to 2016, three times faster than the industry average , commanding 9% of all online razor sales. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. We should also look, they argued, at the decisions made by firms. Since that time, however, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B By almost all accounts, companies at the digital frontier such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are investing vast amounts in AI—somewhere between $20 billion and $30 billion alone in 2016. . $5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

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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. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. ” Immelt notes that success requires GE’s willingness to change on many levels—from recruiting, to customer management, to technology. .” We need to be more like Oracle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Over the years, there have been numerous efforts, ranging from the Bayh-Dole Act , of 1980, to numerous initiatives to revamp technology transfer offices within government agencies, but nothing really seemed able to speed new discoveries out of the labs and into the marketplace. This, of course, was not an entirely new idea.

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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. In 2016, 50% of the Executive Medical Directors group were women and 29% of the Health Plan Organization’s C-Suite were women.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Andy, of course, had already shown his interest in academia much earlier by writing a widely used textbook on semiconductor technology and teaching that subject at Berkeley. In January 2016, Andy’s High Output Management was reissued, and Ben Horowitz (who wrote the foreword) organized a small party at his house to celebrate Andy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. And we mean everyone — not only the inpatient and outpatient teams but even people in HR and Finance. Kelly Sillaste/Getty Images. We sometimes act as if health care organizations are big machines.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. But in 2016 the exchanges will open to companies with 51 to 100 employees. In 2017, they may open up to still larger businesses and to state and local governments.

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Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. The history of internet-based technology platform businesses shows that in the growth phase, rapid losses of position are possible.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

could harness technologies like 3D printing to build affordable houses faster and cleaner and make them accessible to most Americans. Adding 20,000 new customers a month and with a 97% customer satisfaction rate, Compte Nickel expects to close 2016 with half a million clients.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The immediate emotional response may be to wait until all the details are available and carefully messaged, but it is negligent to withhold information that could help people keep their data and finances safe. It appears Whole Foods had a plan in place as the company reported its most recent breach five days after detection.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. sanctions, which were initially enacted in 1979 and strengthened in subsequent years, resulted in many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Technological challenges. Some technological challenges remain for all marketplaces in 2015, but in Rhode Island we have largely worked through them. We will continue to strive for improvements in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These questions will clearly take a lot more research than this article. Consider Pokemon Go, the viral sensation of Summer 2016 and the most popular smartphone game in history. ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). Payments for the vehicles were then deducted from pay, leaving little in compensation for the workers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. Not surprisingly, more and more businesses are becoming certified for their social responsibility practices.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

” —President Obama, 2016 State of the Union Address. It focuses on the reemployment prospects of workers whose job loss was due to no fault of their own and who face significantly lower wages in their new jobs, including as a result of technology, a theme Obama highlighted in his speech. What wage insurance does.

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Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

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. TEO Ming Kian , Director at Temasek and Chairman at Vertex Holdings.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S.

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Technology Energy System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Of course, the retrenchment of global finance also reflects pressure on banks from regulators and shareholders to rebuild their capital and liquidity. As European banks retreat, China is leading something of a changing of the guard in global finance. And it is not alone.

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Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images. The country is moving rapidly toward a digital-first economy.

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Banking Long-term Short-term System 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Yet, along other dimensions, the state is unwittingly hindering China’s emergence as a technological giant. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Before the iPhone launched in 2007, HP dominated the handheld calculator space for science and finance. Yet, for all its technological prowess Sony focused too much on products and not enough on creating platforms. Sony, Hewlett Packard (HP), and Garmin all made the mistake of emphasizing products over platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

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