Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Vision before action.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. As the costs of things like phone calls and televisions have dropped, the cost for basic necessities like food and housing has soared.

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

When I conducted over 200 interviews with great bosses as part of my research into the secrets of so-called superbosses , I identified four practices that managers follow to truly become inclusive leaders and — not coincidentally — build innovative, high-performance, high-growth businesses. Unleash everyone’s creativity.

Management 13

Management Drucker Diversity Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead.

Organization 8

Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve. Innovation communities had been used by Best Buy to grow its portion of the women’s consumer electronics market by $4.4b in less than five years.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Critics questioned Hyundai’s decision to spend $5 million to advertise the $15 million donated to its Hope on Wheels program in 2017 (although in fairness, it has donated $130 million over its 20-year history). ” the CEO of a major global corporation asked me recently.

Company 10

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Audience 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Picture the three major hurricanes photographed from space in the autumn of 2017 in a single, unparalleled NASA image. Think, too, of the forecast that carbon dioxide emissions, instead of declining, will probably have spiked by 2% in 2017, in part because much economic growth in China is still fueled by coal. and 7.7%, respectively.

Execution 8

Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India plans to catalyze $200-300 billion of new investment in renewable energy infrastructure over the next decade. Consider two success stories in India’s consumer economy: Amazon and Renault’s ultra low-cost Kwid car. billion enrollees and was used to authenticate 9 billion transactions in 2017.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. The costs of letting management entrench itself eventually outweigh the benefits of shielding the company from short-term investors. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Yet, in an economy whereby 60% of GDP and 85% of exports are derived from oil and gas, the need to diversify is evident, not least due to the decline in oil prices since 2014 that many believe is the new normal and the political and economic blockade that was imposed by some neighboring countries in June 2017. Core sectors.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

This would amount to higher tariffs for inputs or final goods, which, though unlikely to reach the 25% tariff levels suggested during Trump’s campaign, would still raise costs for multinationals and further inhibit cross-national supply chain integration. YOY in 2017–2018. YOY in 2017–2018.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? Many invested heavily in renewable energy (see number five on this list), and some big companies dove into policy debates this year.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

However, by subsidizing the shift to green energy, richer blue states can make the eventual transition easier for fossil-fuel-dependent red states. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation. For the time being, U.S. climate policy will be fractured by political geography.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8