Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

Management 20

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

Case Study 228

Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. According to a Bloomberg report , banks were estimated to have received 14.97 trillion rupees’ worth of currency demonetized.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. Based in Abidjan, the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, 60% of the bank’s shares are held by the 54 countries in Africa, and a minority stake is held by 27 partner countries, including the U.S.,

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

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. BuildDirect was founded in 1999 by CEO Jeff Booth with his good friend Rob Banks. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. But a lot of times, glitches have to do with newer technologies, which we are learning break in unexpected ways.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. How else did the companies projecting the greatest ROI from Big Data differ from underperformers? Internet companies face many digital interactions, so they need Big Data technologies and people to sort through their click-stream data.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example. Why are they so satisfied? Facebook is a prime example.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

All of this change will require new technologies that enable faster, more secure ways for machines to share and process data. The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Where/how are people stuck?

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Then the lawyers step in, ask questions, and kill the project — or reduce it to a shadow of its potential. A leading professional services firm signed up 1,000 people to Slack groups before confidentiality lawyers closed down the project because it was cloud-based. I hear these stories all the time. Where are the risks?

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Compliance Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Change leaders are visionaries.

Middle Management 14

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14

Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

billion in 2030 (out of a projected global population of 8.3 But every region of the world will participate in the trend, including Africa, which the African Development Bank estimates already has a middle class of more than 300 million people. Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2013. billion in 2009 to 3.2

Class 85

Class Leadership Politics eBook 85

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

democratized communication technologies like Skype) and more physical touch points (e.g. Clearly one reason is remittances: according to the World Bank, over $400 billion was sent back to developing countries in 2012. In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8