HR Digest

JULY 9, 2020

The coronavirus pullback has stalled a tentative recovery in the job market and is likely triggering additional layoffs. ” Alongside, consumer spending tracked by debit and credit cards spending by the Bank of America shows a decline in purchases all over. million in June. The number of part-time workers is at 9.1

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Health Care Report Banking Education 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

One of the notable differences between emerging markets and the developed world is the ubiquity of mobile phones in emerging markets. Citizens of poor countries already use mobile phones to make payments, transfer money, and otherwise fill in the voids created by a poor banking infrastructure.

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Health Care Innovation Licensing Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

As the interest rate scandal that began as "the Barclays affair" has engulfed a dozen regulators and a score of banks, the Financial Times shakes a salmon-colored finger at its readership. This is market-rigging on a grand scale," laments in the paper in this editorial. "It SOON WE'LL ALL BE HEALTH CARE WORKERS.

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Banking Health Care Metrics Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

In health care, the Hippocratic Oath — “first, do no harm” — can hold as much sway in the board room as it does in the exam room. Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. health care has become akin to a smothered child—stifled and arrested.

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Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

For a discipline so fundamentally altruistic, health care is oddly dysfunctional around relationships. Our full article describing social capital, its roles in health care, and strategies for building it in health care organizations is available here (PDF). Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Social Capital Health Care Cooper Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

I''m a health-plan executive, and my jar is the U.S. health-care system. From the inside, it''s impossible to know how consumers think — or, more urgently, how they''re going to behave in the very near future when many of them have to buy their own health insurance via exchanges. No, we''re not ready at all.

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Health Care Execution Insurance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

CareAi stationed in markets, churches, mosques, and other public arenas could help citizens who live in places with limited healthcare facilities, especially if the recommendations are personalized with the patients’ medical records. AI and blockchain promises the same to Africa’s healthcare at scale.

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Health Care Technology System Library 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Smart, always-connected devices and anytime/anywhere interactions are now givens, particularly among millennials, who expect such conveniences in banking and financial services. Read more from Cognizant: What Consumers Want Online Now from Their Health Care Plans. Digital is reconfiguring the world.

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Banking Content Customer Loyalty Health Care 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Organ donor banks and associations, in consortium with hospitals. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. Professional societies and associations. Advocate groups for causes.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Building market share by delivering rich, intuitive experiences is a key goal for all organizations. For health insurers, this customer centricity is an imperative. Individual consumers now have increasing freedom to shop for health plans and to choose how they spend their healthcare dollars. A Strong Preference for Digital.

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Health Care Planning Content Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

EnableSoft, is engaged in offering game changing software products and services to the business and financial services industry, healthcare and a dozen other markets. Richard designed and implemented a business plan to offer bank merger data conversion services which resulted in the successful merger of over 50 financial institutions.

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Software Insurance System Operations 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care.

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TSR Banking Committee Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

For this Labatt was labeled a laughingstock in Canadian Business magazine’s Sales & Marketing section. To paraphrase marketing expert Jonah Sachs , storytelling is the only tool that has ever moved minds and changed behavior. Why bother, CEO Peter Kassabov says, when banks were just going to pass the loans on to investors?

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Storytelling Banking Health Care Guidelines 12

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The issue at the heart of this uncertainty involves limited access to capital at a time when banks are reluctant to lend. Many of the provisions of the sweeping health-care bill passed by the House of Representatives in March won’t kick in until 2014, however these provisions spell big changes for small businesses.

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Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

Social Campaigns on Tuesdays Earn Highest Engagement (Marketing Profs). This chart-heavy post contains a few surprises — even for the social marketing guru. One such nugget: the best time to launch a Facebook campaign is between 10 pm and midnight Eastern time, yet that is Facebook’s least-used timeslot by marketers.

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Insurance PR ROI Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. For non-U.S.-based

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The news that health care in Zimbabwe can be paid for with peanuts (and sometimes corn and goats) made the front page of the New York Times. They could be a way to derive value from an under-utilized asset, cut costs, find new partners, or tap market opportunities. Swaps are not quaint at all.

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Finance Strategy Banking Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run.

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Take banking as a visible example. But real markets are much more precise.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

I’ve had the opportunity, over the last two decades, to immerse myself in some of the world’s most creative, energetic, and productive workplaces, from health care to financial services, from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue. But this workplace elevates the needs of employees above all other constituencies.

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Health Care How To Hedge Environment 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Whether it's the stubborn inefficiencies of the health-care system , the ever-rising costs of the higher-education system , even the slow-motion collapse of the US postal system , leaders with unrivaled expertise and decades of experience can't seem to develop creative solutions to dire problems. So we don't copy the stupid banks.

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Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Health care sector. The health care sector offers a wealth of possibilities for investors as it is known as a ‘defensive sector’ (it is largely immune to economic fluctuations) and has steadily increased over the last 10 years and looks set to continue on an upward trajectory. Financial sector.

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Health Care Biotechnology Energy Insurance 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Vincent Tsui for HBR. But there is plenty of potential left to unlock. What do these enterprises need to scale up? And how can they do it?

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. In India, where the number of digital payments is growing over 30% annually , the central bank has ruled that digital payment enablers must ensure that all payments data be stored only on servers within India.

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Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

In general, organized criminals are trying to steal things of high value, and one of the most valuable industries, in terms of cost, is health care. So what you see is that criminals are going after health records because on the black market they can probably sell a health record of a person for about $50.

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Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

But this reaction from SOPA's ostensible industry reveals more about the apparent effectiveness of this digital cause-related marketing effort than its legality, morality or ethics. The logical question is whether this sort of corporate "hacktivism" will emerge as a new normal for cause marketing worldwide. Why not emulate success?

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Tactics Self-aware Politics Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. And, yes indeed, such models will demand a set of capabilities now alien to most care providers. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. Strategy'

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

So why did one of the planet's biggest investment banks — and its 33,300 employees — hold out so long? These hurdles aren't unique to financial services — insurance, pharmaceuticals, health care and government all face regulation, to name a few examples. The risks and penalties are real.

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