Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Consider that other power brokers, such as Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, echoed themes similar to those the Pope raised. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. Companies challenged, and were challenged by, their supply chains. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. It was co-hosted by the Minister of Technology and included ministers from the cabinet charged with meeting the Grand Challenges IBM identified. IBM is doing something similar in data analytics. It’s neither.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. To get the most out of social technologies, known collectively as Enterprise 2.0,

Media 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., renewables are getting cheaper than fossil fuels ) and global peer pressure.” ” Even these significant achievements are insufficient.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Make public policy proactive, not reactive. Our data include about 950 businesses. In the U.S.,

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

As the scale and complexity of the cyber threat landscape is revealed, so too is the general lack of cybersecurity readiness in organizations, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology. Spending millions on security technology can certainly make an executive feel safe. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Insight Center. Distributed Database.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

After serving as a dean at Harvard and Stanford, he was chair of the World Bank-sponsored Commission on Growth and Development from 2006 to 2010. If hyperspecialization becomes mainstream, it would lead to the development of global supply chains for knowledge work similar to the ones that have emerged in manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Do you even have a "hardware anti-virus" policy at all? How much time do your security folks spend vetting the supply chain of your equipment for counterfeit machines that may be harbouring deadly worms within the actual micro-circuitry? What is the policy on "trusted networks"?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

American banks reportedly come under hostile cyberattack from Iran. If your company uses digital networks to manage supply chains, customer relationships, internal communications, financials and/or sensitive information that might interest Chinese or Iranian cyberwarriors, then a risk assessment re-think is paramount.

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Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

You will lose the bankers if your guidepoint is startups rather than growth; it is not banks’ business to invest in startups with few assets to secure as guarantees. Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning. Focusing on scale-ups also matters when you talk to bankers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

The primary tool of China’s industrial policy is subsidies to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) for key industries such as robotics, advanced computers, and electric vehicles. ” These subsidies build on years of Chinese state support for foundational industries like banks, oil, utilities, telecom, and construction.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. Employees were better paid than the marketplace, thus forcing many to stay or not question policies.

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