Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

.” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. The successes of the collaboratives have been reported in the Wall Street Journal , the book Pursuing the Triple Aim , and a Harvard Business Review article that explains how other employers can replicate these efforts in their local markets.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. But in a recent study, my colleagues and I stumbled across evidence that both the choice of venue and the message were surprisingly apt.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

IPO 10

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. In developing countries, primary care tends to be delivered by a mix of public and private sector providers.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. 2 (2005): 447–504. The result was that their ideas were not developed. 2 (2004): 349–399.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. That’s changing. Uber is another example.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Thanks to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, specialties such as cardiology, orthopedics, and medical oncology that relied on the revenue that imaging generated were hit hard. A third apparent motivation was to corner the local physician market in order to obtain more favorable rates from health insurers.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8