Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Increasing numbers of companies are looking to build a behavioral science team — one that is located at the very center of their business and that the whole organization can benefit from. With the right support and training, these internal project managers will be your future behavioral analysts. ” You aren’t alone.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. Similarly, you don't have to be an energy company or pulp and paper producer to focus on those resources; all companies use water, energy, and paper. During my time as CEO of TNT N.V. Our professional support made the WFP function better.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. As the scale and scope of our company have expanded over the years, so has our focus on taking meaningful steps to improve the world in which we live. The HR Digest: C. Robinson and in global logistics. Robinson add success to the global supply chain industry?

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. Foremost, the company has to have a culture of openness and employee-centric. In the U.S.

Absenteeism 105

Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Students, workers, and retirees are protesting, targeting trains, airlines, retirement homes, universities, and government offices. In 1995 a train strike paralyzed France and forced the government to back down from its proposed reform of the railway sector. However, this time, things seem different. GDP grew by 1.9%

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Almost every industry is already being affected, from agriculture to transportation. Companies have at their disposal, for the first time, the full set of building blocks to begin embedding machine intelligence in their businesses. So what should the Fortune 500 and other companies be doing to get started? Insight Center.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

Suppose that Amtrak could achieve the speed of China''s bullet trains and move at 175 miles per hour. That is exactly what happened in China as a consequence of the country''s enormous investment in bullet trains, as work that I did with Siqi Zheng of Tsinghua University shows. There''s even more to the story for companies.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Cost-Benefit Analysis Decentralization Training 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Despite a great deal of lip service to digital transformation, the effect of all these great words on most companies is this: not much. Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Two well-known companies have also made auctions famous, and economists have played central roles in the success of each. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. We then, in turn, trained local lab workers, who then trained others.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. How do companies differentiate in a world where access to technology is no longer a competitive advantage? Why is this?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. As one remarked, “After eight years, I had built the foundation and expertise in markets and finance. The opportunity to get hands-on leadership training.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Successful companies shape their high-level strategies by relying not on complicated frameworks but on simple rules of thumb. It illustrates how simple rules can help companies shape strategy in an uncertain environment. Take the story of América Latina Logística (ALL). Fostering coordination.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP). Because Geisinger has a health insurance company, it is easy to access to payer-side claims data. This gives us a deep view into the true financial costs of care and disease. The Next Steps.

Class 8

Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. And with the economy as it is, I'm just happy to be working for a growing company." just, I think it would be a good, er, strategic move for the company, sir. Stan asked.

Case Study 10

Case Study Marketing Real Estate Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Even families without the up-front capital can rely on zero-money-down financing programs , like those offered by Solar City and other solar lease providers. They can be installed on a porch or backyard by an average person with no training, and they can be transported from home to home.

Technology 8

Technology Energy System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8