Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2011

Following the collapse of housing prices, a growing number of people have voiced concerns over a looming collapse of higher education tuition. Initial apprehensions were expressed at least as early as 2009 in places like The Economist and The Chronicle of Higher Education. But do research-based MBA programs provide that return?

Education 15

Education Human Capital Class CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. Employee education. Employee incentives.

Innovation 9

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

Making this happen will take more than encouraging images from the silver screen: it will mean undoing decades devoted to keeping the generations apart—in every sphere of life including age-segregated housing, educational arrangements, and workplaces pushing out experienced workers.

Film 9

Film Mentor Education Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Other areas where machine intelligence could soon be commonly used include: Career planning. AI can expedite “exception handling” in many financial processes.

Process 10

Process Company Supply Chain Software 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

In fact, as Tesla and other companies have discovered, AI technologies are having a profound impact throughout the enterprise, from sales and marketing, to R&D, to back-office functions like accounting and finance. In addition, Adidas flew employees to Germany for training, to work with the specialized AI-based robotic machinery.

Power 9

Power Engineering Analysis Training 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Using her private sector savvy and entrepreneurial mind-set, she was able to more than double the number of California companies that support policies for improving children’s health and education. As one remarked, “After eight years, I had built the foundation and expertise in markets and finance.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Whatever its other educational benefits, the race for the Republican presidential nomination has served to introduce legions of hitherto oblivious Americans to the joys and sorrows of private equity. The argument isthat having lots of debt to pay off serves as an incentive for management to make the business more profitable, faster.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

That should help more tightly align incentives to provide original content with more returns in visibility and money. That should help more tightly align incentives to provide original content with more returns in visibility and money. Thats the theory, but there are some issues with Googles plan.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The lower reimbursement and need to provide 24/7 coverage that makes a primary-care-based system so appealing to policy makers and others has long been shown to be a source of burnout and challenges in getting medical students to choose careers in primary care. One proven way of keep patients engaged is by using financial incentives.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In slightly more formal terms, Id suggest that they were able to take on, at least in tiny part, five of Robert Merton and Zvi Bodies six standard functions of a financial system: settling payments, providing information, setting incentives, pooling resources, and transferring resources.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His primary insight is that the frame one firm uses has to be able to counter their rivals incentive to jump to greater transparency and offer discounts. His primary insight is that the frame one firm uses has to be able to counter their rivals incentive to jump to greater transparency and offer discounts.

Retail 14

Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Although much attention has been paid, rightly, to government’s role in providing educational resources and skills to its citizens, we believe it will be hard to stop growing levels of inequality and economic anxiety without companies playing a more active role and assuming more responsibility for training, skilling, and reskilling employees.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8