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. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall. Men at the top are more likely to pull other men up by their collars into the C-suite to join them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

With its success, Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma are making the case for a strategy approach that has fallen out of favor in the U.S. While conglomerates are few and far between in the West, their success in China is no surprise. And it sets strategy like one, according to a Harvard Business School case study by professor Julie Wulf.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

While successful female leaders have made headlines in recent years — Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, and Indra Nooyi all come to mind — they remain the exception to the rule. women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. We found that these figures matter to the bottom line. Yet in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Census data from 1990 to 2013. For middle-skilled, middle class workers at middle-paying firms, the chances of moving up the following year were 2.6%. The paper divides earners, skillsets, and firms up into thirds. “They’re the most successful firms in their industries in many cases,” he said.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. And in every single economic expansion in those same years, 70% to 80% of the income growth went to the bottom 90% of the population.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. A hallmark of the successful 32% was the involvement of mid-level managers two or more levels below the CEO. A hallmark of the successful 32% was the involvement of mid-level managers two or more levels below the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. What should it be?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

October 2013) The Dark Side of Generic Drugs Dirty Medicine Fortune Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. February 2013) By the People, Not For the People Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Goal That Changed Corporate America The Washington Post In 1963, IBM CEO Thomas J. Gerstner Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The relief was that nearly all the credits for 2013 were sold, with three times as many bidders as there were credits available, and amounting to almost $300 million in proceeds, which in this first round will mostly be allocated to back to the investor owned utilities and paid back to ratepayers as a twice-yearly "climate dividend."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Like so many other revolutions, digital marketing has taken hold from the bottom up. The CMO could tap dance through the average board meeting, as long as revenue tracked up and to the right. The Digital CMO.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

With yesterday''s iPhone release, Apple changed things up by going to a " good-better-best " pricing strategy on its new devices. As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Mobile technology presents all marketers with a tantalizing proposition. While many of these strategies apply both within and outside the consumer packaged goods industry, there is no secret sauce and all marketers should ask themselves what their unique mobile framework should be in 2013, and beyond. Monetize mobile media?.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. The team ended last season at the bottom of the standings (Las Vegas odds were 28 to 1 that they’d make it to the World Series), but rallied this year. What is a common definition of success?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

With yesterday’s iPhone release, Apple changed things up by going to a “ good-better-best ” pricing strategy on its new devices. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

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. Capitalize on success. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging.

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