Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

When managers talk about social media the debate still seems to revolve around external uses of social technologies. Collective – As collaboration will involve taken relatively narrow perspectives and making them broad, you will need to help the group reach a consensus and then take action collectively on the decisions they make.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. Most people don’t have to agree with you 100% of the time, but they do need to trust you 100% of the time. Trust cannot exist where leaders are fickle, inconsistent, indecisive, or display a lack of character.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

The response to concerns raised about civil liberties and civic culture (including on this site) ranged from skeptical ( "This is a spontaneous response of the crowd to an unfolding situation, merely taking advantage of current technology" ) to to hostile ( "What a load of GARBAGE!" ).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Economic inclusion must be a priority both for economic policy makers and for business. Examples include San Diego’s CONNECT, which promotes innovation and sustained growth among high-tech companies, and EWI in Columbus, which researches advanced manufacturing technologies for industry. In Minneapolis–St.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

So I reached out to Ford's Director of Sustainability and Environmental policy, John Viera to help me better understand the company's approach. The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%. But it's very smart.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

There’s a lot of debate over the magnitude of the decline, but there is broad consensus that it has happened and that it’s a big deal. ” Rapid technological advance in computers and automation has led to a huge fall in the quality-adjusted price of capital equipment. Maybe the leading story is “Robocalypse Now.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The rapid pace and impact of these changes did not allow the luxury of time and resources to endlessly research or build consensus around an idea or course of action. All segments of Indian society have shown a remarkable capacity for change — from adopting new technology to fostering innovation.

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Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

In the five years since the advent of Dodd-Frank regulation, corporate governance groups, with their policies requiring at least half of long-term incentives to be “performance-based,” have pushed companies to replace options with multi-year, performance plans. How could anyone object to such an effort?

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Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

My point is that without a working, viable, lasting, participatory link to the who, what, when, where, and how of policy-making, the event is just that: a one-off marketing stunt, with little enduring significance or meaning. Maybe Obama dreamt the whole thing up himself, or maybe the Dalai Lama or David Hasselhoff did. In political terms?

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Marketing Loyalty Decentralization Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

for example, a backlog of baby-boomer retirees is expected to turnover upwards of 40 percent of utilities'' 400,000-strong workforce, according to a study by the Task Force on America''s Future Energy Jobs produced by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). There is time, technology, and will to avoid this fate, but the clock is ticking.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Monetary, non-monetary, and consensus exchanges are three common forms of value exchange. Meanwhile, a simple consensus or agreement can also deliver value exchange on the veracity of a medical claim with an insurer or an agreement on a patient treatment protocol.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

The great majority of business leaders understand that what is necessary is investments in the business environment and efforts to reach consensus on issues such as health care costs, balancing the budget, and tort reform. Just 51 called for tariffs or trade protection, for example. operations compete more effectively.

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Short-term Survey Consensus Health Care 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In fact, encouraging startups may be bad policy. I taught the first masters course on technological entrepreneurship in Israel at the Technion in 1987, 15 years after Israel’s first tech IPO on NASDAQ and when the entrepreneurial revolution in Israel was well underway. Offering financial incentives (e.g.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

This post was written with Ripa Rashid, Executive Vice President at the Center for Work-Life Policy, and Diana Forster, a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida and a fellow at the Center for Work-Life Policy. Why aren't more Asians getting to the top at U.S. Asians make up 5% of the U.S. population , but only 1.8%

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Human Capital Survey Globalization Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Building a learning health system will require uniform data standards for health information technology and greater interoperability among electronic health record systems as a necessary foundation for delivering coordinated treatment and tracking of patient progress. Army, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the U.S.

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Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

In fact, many of the great opportunities defy definition and lie in the creative "inter-sectors": health care and the environment; real estate development and information technology and cleantech; education and mobile communications. Invest time, not money. In Boston it has become the Seaport. In Istanbul, it is Beyoglu.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem.

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Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

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

AUGUST 15, 2011

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. Sitting at an annual event on a well-known Alp, Chris saw Washington Consensus capitalism come up against emerging economy pragmatism.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Trade Policy.". He also mentioned a plan for some sort of a stimulus to technological innovation, starting these manufacturing centers [like the one in Youngstown, Ohio]. There is sort of a consensus that what we need to do is lower the corporate tax rate. trade policy. What do you make of his proposal?

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Price Aggregate Demand Proposal Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

I actually am optimistic that we can get there; there’s a fair amount of consensus about that. Of course it affects dividend policy, it affects wage policy, it affects everything. If companies are going to move technology ownership outside the United States, then you pay a substantial tax on that. It’s very profitable.

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Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology underlying bitcoin, may prove to be far more valuable than the currency it supports. As we begin to put distributed ledger technology into practice, it’s important to make sure that the initial conditions we’re setting up aren’t setting us up for security issues later on.

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Consensus Decentralization System Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Alice Potter/Getty Images. They can help bring clarity to all involved, and must be reviewed and renegotiated over time.

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Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.

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Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. If your marketing doesn’t uphold your brand promise or if it’s not advancing core business initiatives, then you have an alignment issue.

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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 286

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

What Pittsburgh is doing has implications, not just for policy, but also for business strategy and the future of public-private collaboration. While world-changing in its day, Westinghouse’s technology is now decades old, and years of underinvestment have left the macrogrid increasingly inefficient and unreliable.

Energy 8

Energy Innovation Policies Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Late in June, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed technology and innovation platform. ” No technology company would object to that proposal. The consensus, even among many leading software providers , is that those new categories have done far more harm than good.

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Planning Innovation Review Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. EU, and Japan want to make such practices subject to the same rules as government subsidies to SOEs and to private firms but are still trying to reach a consensus on the best ways to do that. In May, the U.S.,

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Proposal Technology Hammer Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

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Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10