The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Income inequality has been in the spotlight at least since Thomas Piketty published Capital in the Twenty-First Century in 2013. “Trade in Ecuador tends to be something that is good for the richest, relative to the middle class,” the researchers explain. These tend to help the middle classes or the less well-off.

Globalization 86

Globalization Class Chemicals Education 86

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2013

Tellis HBR How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?

Govindarajan 80

Govindarajan Blog Rogers McKinsey 80

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

World class products and services don't create themselves. That's why a business leader is accountable first to customers, because they hold all the cards, and that's why when they pursue a business opportunity, they place investment in talent first, product innovation second, and business model third.

Productivity 150

Productivity Products Succession Team 150

Mills Scofield

JUNE 1, 2015

Or when yet another sat down next to me and asked me to define religion, prompted by a class project on religious law. He was a 2013 C.V. Starr Social Innovation Fellow for Common Sense Action , which he co-founded with Sam Gilman. This is for them and for what they represent.

Kaplan 70

Kaplan Wilde Learning-by-Doing Class 70

Mills Scofield

JUNE 1, 2015

Or when yet another sat down next to me and asked me to define religion, prompted by a class project on religious law. He was a 2013 C.V. Starr Social Innovation Fellow for Common Sense Action , which he co-founded with Sam Gilman. This is for them and for what they represent.

Kaplan 70

Kaplan Wilde Learning-by-Doing Class 70

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2016

Take a Critical Look at Your Culture – Consider how the culture is easier or more difficult to navigate for any number of groups, based on age, gender, social class, etc. After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend.

Organization 50

Organization Kaplan Diversity How To 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Auto Ownership and the Real Middle Class (Vox EU). Middle-class status has now been achieved by more than 4 billion people worldwide. So Shimelse Ali and Uri Dadush suggest a new middle-class definition: those who can afford to buy a car. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Risk Management 58

Risk Management Operations Resources Management 58

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away. I don’t remember getting too many details from my dad about the class, other than Dr. Deming chastising some executives who showed up during the last hour of the last day. Why had I heard of Dr. Deming?

Deming 46

Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Auto Ownership and the Real Middle Class (Vox EU). Middle-class status has now been achieved by more than 4 billion people worldwide. So Shimelse Ali and Uri Dadush suggest a new middle-class definition: those who can afford to buy a car. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. Companies like Amazon, Zappos, and Apple have marched to the head of the class by innovating BEFORE the market did, and they set the standard for others to follow. On the achievement side of life, my four words are: ADVISOR – DIGITAL – POWER – TIME.

Succession 50

Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

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. Moreover, small firms are core to Americas middle class and part of the fabric of Main Streets across our country.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

What exactly are the issues that people have with Europe’s innovativeness? Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Let’s look at innovativeness. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

During the summer of 2014 alone $3 billion poured into India’s e-commerce sector, where, in addition to local innovators like Flipkart and Snapdeal, there are nearly 200 digital commerce startups flush with private investment and venture capital funds. Even Amazon localized its approach in India to offer COD as a service.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

According to Bain & Company’s analysis, activist investors are now the fastest-growing class of institutional investors—and more than 75% of their demands involve nominating or replacing directors on boards. Are younger insurgent companies faster to launch products, to innovate, to react to customers?

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

And yet, workers may increasingly be tempted to band together, as support systems for the working class (housing subsidies, food stamps, lower tax rates, etc.) INNOVATION LESSONS FROM SURFING, DUDE. Sometimes the Smaller Wave is the Best Wave (Innovation Excellence). Before Innovation Was Cool (Cultureby). Mother Jones).

Micromanagement 8

Micromanagement Case Study Innovation Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

While these two facts are seemingly unrelated, an innovative program connects them in a meaningful way. I joined the inaugural class of the GSTW program at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in February 2013, where I, along with ten fellow veterans, received accelerated skills training in core manufacturing skillsets.

Skills 8

Skills Company Class Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. The goal is to attract the British middle classes, and it appears to be working.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

In March of 2013, the department of the U.S. Treasury tasked with combating money laundering issued guidance on Bitcoin, defining it as a “decentralized” class of “virtual currency” that, though not equivalent to legal tender, “acts as a substitute for real money”. Clarity is coming, and with it, likely, greater involvement from banks.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Decentralization Banking Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Indeed, the GAO observed that when given the chance to comment on its June 19 report , “the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) emphasized the progress it has made in establishing exchanges, and expressed its confidence that exchanges will be open and functioning in every state by October 1, 2013.” Are you impressed?

Software 8

Software System Project Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. Here''s my advice, then, if you are one of those organizations that sends scouts to Silicon Valley or establishes an outpost to tap into the innovation taking place here. Creativity Economy Innovation'

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing? Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. According to Barron's and others, China has already begun implementing its ambitious plan to increase installations. Chinese consumers will spend $41.5 trillion to $6.2

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. So do the emerging middle classes in Brazil and Colombia. innovative alternatives.

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. Toys become total ecosystems of innovation, collaboration and adaptation. Many of our assumptions about what motivates and dissuades people are wrong-especially when knowledge, creativity and innovation are desired.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

If anything, it made them more committed to finding creative ways to drive innovation and growth. But despite these challenges, the leaders in some of India's best companies are truly world class. India's infrastructure issues need to get fixed. And the entrepreneurial spirit is as strong as you'll see anywhere in the world.

Incubator 8

Incubator Banking Hotels Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Earlier in my career I spent 14 years as chief talent officer at Netflix, where I helped create some of the innovative talent management policies — such as no-formal-limit vacation policies — that have since become widespread. (I Yoga classes, massage therapy, acupuncture, pre-paid Uber accounts: Been there, done that.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Constraint Policies Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Likewise, Nigeria is the powerhouse among the MINT nations while Mexico’s performance may make investors question the rationale for its inclusion.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

No number we hear thrown around is entirely accurate, but an optimistic assessment might be this study released last month by the American Association of University Women, which found that, one year after graduation, female college graduates from the class of 2008 were making only 82% of what their male colleagues were paid.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

One outcome that I bet nobody in my class way back then thought would become a significant trend is that law firms are today culling their partner ranks, actions that would have seemed unthinkable years ago. Yet, just as the Wall Street Journal reported on January 6, 2013, partners who aren't bringing in business are themselves being let go.

Creativity 8

Creativity Consensus Business Model Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

We believe that when this incredible professional diversity collides with software engineering talent, you have the recipe for breakthrough innovation. The center also reports that between 2008 and the beginning of 2013, New York saw a 24 percent gain in the number of venture capital deals, while Silicon Valley dropped by 21 percent.

Diversity 9

Diversity Software Engineering Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. DJI’s first hit product was the Phantom in 2013, and ever since, DJI has introduced new products at a rapid-fire pace.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. How could this be?, Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. They experiment aggressively.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8