Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.” So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. The numbers were grim. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

At times, I’ve been critical about the sometimes-loose definition of what GE “counts” as an ecomagination project (making oil sands production a bit cleaner, really?). Sustainability Data Operations' What if, deep down, the move away from GE capital is really about the increasing potential for ecomagination products?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Overall marijuana sales in states where cannabis is legal could double in 2014 to hit $3 billion, according to our estimates, as Colorado and Washington begin selling cannabis to adults 21 and over.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. While we disagree with Charan’s solution, we think he’s on to something when he asserts that the best CHROs have line and/or operational business experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days. Looking for Millennials?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013. It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. billion in mining projects since 2010. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. The country’s tourism sector attracted fewer than five million visitors in 2014 while neighboring Turkey attracted 39 million people. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4% growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. The article doesn''t outright glorify or condemn these work environments.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. We started working with the management and staff of the perioperative unit in 2014 to develop a more systematic, long-term approach for improving patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. We’ll see industry consolidation continue in 2014 and witness the rise of open platforms that will make media planning and buying a whole lot simpler for all involved. Operational convergence will drive strategy.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. It’s now worth approximately $1,1200 per bitcoin.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. The president made this goal even more formidable by promising that every American would have an electronic health record by 2014. We reported the results publicly on a project website. This was a $1.2 ” And the road to success was in many ways the same.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects. IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Decision making Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. A few organizations in the PR industry have overtly sold their ability to “create and fix Wikipedia pages” in ways that violate the very spirit and purpose of the Wikipedia project.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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