Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Shining a Light: Safer Health Care Through Transparency , a 2015 report by the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute, states that “if transparency were a medication, it would be a blockbuster, with billions of dollars in sales and accolades the world over.” Patients are the ultimate beneficiaries.

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Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015. As Xerox’s CEO Anne Mulcahy said in the Dean’s Innovative Leader Series at MIT in 2006: “In trying to rebound, we spent the vast majority of our time talking to customers.”

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Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. But Daniels wasn’t a typical student: She was 99 years old. The next time you’re tempted to put learning on the back burner, remember a few points: Educational investments are an economic imperative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program.

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

At least seven hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion just in 2009. In 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit set a series of ambitious development goals for 2015 , among them reducing by half the number of people living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger and lacking access to clean drinking water.

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Hedge Cost Energy Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) rolled out the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey in 2006 to measure standards of hospital care from the patient standpoint. Just two years ago, CMS began to use these survey scores, along with process-of-care measures, to adjust reimbursement rates.

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Survey Health Care Process Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

By 2015, there will be 22 metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people. Cities can manage traffic using variable toll pricing. A 2006 pilot of the road charging system revealed that traffic was down by nearly 25% by the end of the trial, resulting in improved traffic flow across the city.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? To bring tending into the light, managers could assess tending across three dimensions: organizational, team, and peer. This advice holds true at work as well. They’re not just being nice.

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Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. In a 2006 study of mock juries, for example, when black people were added to the jury, white jurors processed the case facts more carefully and deliberated more effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

In 2015, Russia’s government spending was still greater than India’s – at approximately $257 billion— despite the massive devaluation of the ruble. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

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Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

You should be paying close attention to each one of your clients and storing notes in some form of customer management system. In 2006 and in 2009, John was awarded the Technology Executive of the Year, and the Titan of Technology awards by the CTA. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneur Technology Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

But Takata’s example is one of the many clear signs that managers who hone their visualization skills may increasingly find themselves in a position to change emphasis in a chart, leave out data, or add some data. Here’s a recent chart that made news: @GlobeHorowitz : This was the most misleading chart of 2015 https://t.co/smWEwKtwNK

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PR Ethics Engineering Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

On World AIDS Day 2015, we can celebrate tremendous strides globally in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As of 2015, over 2 million people still become newly infected with HIV every year, and an estimated 22 million people remain untreated. Around the world, 15.8 But HIV remains a global threat.

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Project Health Care Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

But people close to the team highlight an additional factor: the organizational culture carefully crafted by General Manager Dayton Moore upon joining the team back in 2006. In 2015, three players had the misfortune to lose parents during the year. The Royals fell right into this category in 2015. individual) one.

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Bottom-up eBook Sports Creativity 120

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

With the acquisition of Pixar by Walt Disney in 2006, Catmull became president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. Catmull expands on his ideas about managing a creative company that he explored in his 2008 HBR article “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity.” In his new book Creativity, Inc. manufacturing infrastructure.

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Creativity Film Management Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle. Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. As a board creates a plan for disclosure and transparency around political spending, the CEO has a unique position and responsibility as both a director and a member of management.

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