Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. These and other IT-related problems aren''t rooted in technology but in leadership failings. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 Some leadership teams have served as guiding examples of how to overturn short-termism and reorient their enterprise.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. Yulia Khazan graduated Yale’s School of Management and decided her next step should be a stint with a high-end Columbian coffee producer.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. This is not just good for individuals; it’s good for business. Well-being has to be woven into the very fabric of the company.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

A 2012 academic study of a large company’s front-line supervisors concluded that, as one summary put it, “The most efficient structure is to assign the best workers to the best bosses.” over the past 20 years: until 2006, its finances were shaky, and it was losing about a point of market share every year. The difference was leadership.

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Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. It also demands senior management and board involvement. GE did more than take advantage of growth as it came. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything Carol J. Loomis The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow Michael Macoby The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time [.].

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Blog Review Books McKinsey 80

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight.

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Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Women have fewer leadership role models and they arguably have greater demands outside of work competing for their attention. The Start Up Paradox.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

A 2012 industry survey asked top hospital leaders (CEOs, COOs, and others) what was necessary to improve the patient experience. Councils have assisted with redesigning waiting rooms, providing advice on improving the admission guide, and helping managers better understand communication needs in the hospital.

Health Care 9

Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

This pact follows a February 2012 agreement between B of A, Citi, JPM, Wells Fargo and Ally with State Attorneys General and federal authorities to pay $26 billion for similar failings. billion to homeowners. Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g. Ally Financial and HSBC Holdings).

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Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. You need to have senior management that really understands what value-based health care (VBHC) is all about. To build a successful measurement program like this one, follow these steps: 1.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 22, 2022

What does a manager do? The responsibilities of a manager vary from company to company. In some organizations, managers are responsible for overseeing the performance of their employees, whereas, in other companies, managers are responsible for supervising the activities of their subordinates. Performance management.

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Management Human Resources Strategic Planning Skills 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

The letters also warned that "the regulatory agencies involved hold powerful leverage through their ability to cut off financing to groups that fail to comply.". Suppressing overhead suffocates organizations and leads to higher turnover, poorer leadership, and worse service. Cut to present. Why even hold the hearing?

Execution 12

Execution Letter Committee Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

There was no time to raise the capital we needed to finance the events' annual cash flow needs. So, on August 23, 2002, we shut our doors, and laid off all 400 employees, including me and my entire leadership team. The 3-Days were 75% of our business. It was like McDonald's losing the hamburger. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1

Teamwork 14

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

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. In the summer of 2012, the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Hospital recruited me to be its inaugural chair. The Leadership Structure.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extends certain middle class incentives and credits such as the Earned Income Credit and Coverdell Education Savings credit.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 9, 2013

John Hay Whitney started the first venture capital firm, financed Gone With the Wind and Minute Maid orange juice, served as Eisenhower’s ambassador to Great Britain, and was one of America’s wealthiest men at midcentury. His manager walks by and asks, “What are you doing? Leadership' Watch your words!

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CEO Open-book Magazine Middle Management 146

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

That Juniper survived the collapse of its stock and grew into a substantial, profitable company is testament to the skills and commitment of its managers and employees. attempt to change the leadership and strategic direction of the company. Finance Tech industry Technology' Maybe it’s both.

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Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation. Better Place started selling cars in Israel and Denmark in late 2012. Instead of buying batteries, consumers would buy subscriptions for miles (just as mobile-phone operators sell subscriptions to minutes).

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. They also found that wages for immigrants in STEM have actually increased: In 1990 native-born STEM workers earned more than immigrants; by 2012, this reversed.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8