The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2021

The researchers draw on data from the Elementary School Operating Status to examine the impact of the pandemic on the gender gap between mothers and fathers in the workforce, especially since schools physically shut and moved classes online. The gender divide. In states where schools remained open, the participation gap barely changed.

Long-term 97

Long-term Class Participative Education 97

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Sales slumped by 87% in the second quarter of 2020, and despite tentative signs of recovery, over half of small business owners in the sector fear the pandemic will force them to permanently close. Another variant looming large over the sector is Brexit. Strategies for overcoming uncontrollable crises.

Crisis 121

Crisis Industry Strategy Tourism 121

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

If you ask a recruiter how they find and engage candidates, and they respond with “we know everyone in that industry,” you’ll do yourself a favor by politely thanking them for their time and keep looking for another recruiter. Meanwhile, fly-by-night operations can sometimes get lucky – as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Execution 213

Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 213

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Baird and Sullivan further share that since 2020, over 40 million Americans have left their jobs. Baird/Sullivan : Some signs that people’s psychological needs aren’t being met are easy to see: in-fighting, politics, hoarding information and resources. Feeling disrespected was cited by 57% of those who left as the reason.

Books 79

Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 79

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In a matter of decades, society altogether rearranges itself – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions. In his HBR piece, Drucker suggested that our great transformation would be completed by 2010 or 2020. Fifty years later a new world exists. They have to have autonomy.”.

Drucker 14

Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Walmart is the largest private user of solar power in the country, and has set goals to increase that amount 6-fold by 2020. As Al Gore put it, "The hard truth is that the maximum that now seems politically feasible still falls short of the minimum necessary to actually solve the climate crisis.". And it should.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Late last month, California passed a sweeping consumer privacy law that might force significant changes on companies that deal in personal data — and especially those operating in the digital space.

Advertising 8

Advertising Retail Compliance Information 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

And it''s all because of a failure of political will in Europe to override the market''s built-in lack of flexibility and fix the imbalance between supply and demand. The supply of carbon credits is fixed through 2020 — not by a regulator or a committee, but by law. So the European carbon market clearly has a design flaw.

Price 8

Price Energy Politics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

From a corporation's point of view, neither politics nor the science of climate change matters, Winston said. trillion by 2020. These partnerships are focused on finding and implementing operational and policy-level sustainability solutions. In today's world, the business logic for embracing sustainability is unassailable.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Brazil, which hosted the World Cup in 2014, is suffering from a deep recession and a political crisis. While the International Olympic Committee touts host cities’ economic legacy , the immense operational challenge of running a mega event creates intense logistical, security, and financial pressures.

Business Model 8

Business Model Committee Franchising Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

As such we struggle with the tension between the desire to boost innovation and the need to operate under increasing regulation. This is a stifling tax on a company’s capacity to find creative approaches to solving unmet customers’ needs. Optimization vs. Rationalization. Mulally would have none of that.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

2020 has tested us. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Teaching by Heart summarizes the author’s key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. David Marquet (Portfolio, 2020) In his last book, Turn the Ship Around! It has illuminated our strengths and exposed our vulnerabilities. Blog Post ).

Books 448

Books Leadership Simon Learning-by-Doing 448

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

trillion by 2020. And Sony one-upped everyone by setting a goal of zero environmental impact across its operations by 2050. Unilever has probably gone the furthest, announcing it would double sales by 2020, but halve total environmental impact ( among other big goals ). Wal-Mart doesn't slow down). Big goals were back.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

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. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020. More advanced DSL using fiber-copper hybrid technology was rushed into operation, as were new fiber-to-the-home services from AT&T, CenturyLink and Frontier. continuing to rely almost entirely on private investment.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

And India is on track to become the youngest country in the world by 2020 and its digital economy is expected to balloon from $413 billion today to $1 trillion dollars by 2025. The data will establish a social credit system expected to be both mandatory by 2020. It is also the world’s largest market for e-commerce.

Airlines 10

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The numbers discussion then seeped over from polls to other politically charged topics such as climate change. trillion : The size of the "climate economy" by 2020 according to the bank HSBC. Let's not let politics or fear of the size of the task ahead get in the way of today's climate math. David Frum, President George W.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. also committed to 100 percent renewables by 2020 (Disclosure: I’m on advisory boards for both RE100 and for Unilever U.S.). Unilever U.S.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

China’s Communist Party recently approved the 13th Five-Year Plan , designed to guide the country’s social, political, and economic development through the second half of this decade. What is the significance of the plan? What are the main characteristics of the latest plan?

Planning 8

Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Brexit, as the British referendum to exit the EU is widely called, has caused turmoil in politics and stocks and head-shaking among the UK’s partners. All of this, of course, comes on the heels of many overlapping crises afflicting Europe.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Forrester Research reports that online spending in India will grow to nearly $75 billion by 2020, from $12.1 By 2020 India will have 900 million people of working age. If enforced, such a requirement would eliminate Cloudtail, the largest seller on Amazon India, effectively making its operations illegal. The evidence continues.

Price 8

Price Globalization Forrester Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Many countries also committed serious funds to build a clean economy: Saudi Arabia pledged $109 billion for solar , Japan declared that a $628 billion green energy industry would be central to its 2020 strategy, and China targeted $372 billion to cut energy use and pollution. In the U.S., a backdoor approach to climate policy took over.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. But last month the country also indicated coal use would rise until 2020 (albeit at a slower rate than the growth of renewables). And so, after a divisive U.S.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

According to a Rutgers study , political ideology and user choice, rather than algorithmic curation, have the most significant impact on engagement with partisan and unreliable news on Google Search. “To the extent that people are engaging with those websites, that’s based largely on personal political outlook.”

Engineering 103

Engineering Politics Content Self-aware 103

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The crisis in Venezuela has been escalating over the last few years as product shortages, social unrest, and political clashes have grown more severe. dollars for companies such as Pepsi , political meddling and price controls, supply chain disruptions, and inability to repatriate profits.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

trillion by 2020, and $3.5 Israel is mostly surrounded by hostile neighbors in a politically tense region. South Korea resides in a different politically tense region, in North Asia, with an active threat of conflict with its nuclear-armed neighbor, North Korea, and the added tensions created by China’s growing dominance.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

political leadership have a chilling effect on corporate action around environmental and social issues? I’m not talking about the politics of and governmental action on climate change, such as the Paris Accord , carbon trading schemes, or efficiency standards. Will the seismic shift in U.S. The short answer is no.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8