Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. ” Meanwhile, the company recruited non-scientist talent from finance, consulting, tech, academia, and political campaigns and inserted them into drug-development roles.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

But it is also one of the most amenable to simple, low-cost behavioral interventions. This program, our Fresh Food “Farmacy ,” has had clinical impacts superior to those provided by medications that cost billions of dollars to develop, and has done so at dramatically lower cost.

Class 8

Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? Cost Savings. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. according to IHS, incurring fuel costs in the billions annually. Operational Improvements.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? Cost Savings. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. according to IHS, incurring fuel costs in the billions annually. Operational Improvements.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

Levitt 9

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

This flight of talented students to work in finance harms all of us because it means that we have fewer "positive spillovers" from innovative activities. Allocating our best talents to finance risks damaging the long-term innovative capacity of our economy. This is what the U.S. Markets will not generate enough innovation.

Politics 15

Politics Innovation Incentives Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. The Leadership Structure. First order of business: Build a leadership team. Where We Started. Straightforward, right? Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. Look at your major spending categories to identify cost-saving opportunities. Can you cut your commuting costs by using public transportation? Your adventure into frugal living might look like Steve’s, or you might cut costs elsewhere.

Career 9

Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. million people.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. So how do you evolve an outdated business model to one that offers better revenue growth, greater profit margins, and lower cost? Changes at the surface create small, local differences.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8