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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

By early 2017, about 2.2 The employee was forbidden to work on the project. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. Five years later, Apple opened its App Store, which empowered anyone, anywhere to design and distribute novel applications.

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Green Bonds Benefit Companies, Investors, and the Planet

Harvard Business Review

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

In 2017, they may open up to still larger businesses and to state and local governments. In addition, the Affordable Care Act has set in motion a large number of pilot programs, experiments, and demonstration projects involving new methods of paying for care and organizing providers. Not all of these innovations will succeed.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N.