Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

By 2013, that fixed portion had dropped from 63 to 16 percent while the incentive fraction soared from 17 to 66 percent. With institutional investor prodding, boards have thus become far more effective monitors of management than they were a decade ago. Yet in doing so they have strengthened the board’s leadership hand as well.

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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. To this end, we are creating a collaboration of researchers and managers to explore what works, what doesn’t, and why.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s hedge funds. Are we getting the benefits? This is the value question.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. But is this a realistic expectation for directors?

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Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In the 1980s, however, pioneering women began moving into management roles and into frontline business areas, such as investment banking. Today 47% of management and professional roles in American financial firms are occupied by women, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Women still aren’t making it to the top.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In one of the most widely scrutinized CEO successions ever, Microsoft directors selected insider Satya Nadella to run the company, only their third CEO pick in the firm’s nearly 40-year history. And that question is likely to be answered in the affirmative if the directors have managed to avoid the Peter Principle.

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CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Managers meet regularly, not just annually, with individual employees.

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Strategy White Paper Human Resources Case Study 133

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Managers meet regularly, not just annually, with individual employees.

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White Paper Case Study Class Newsletter 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Capitalize on success. As with the G&A project, a steering committee composed of the facility’s senior leaders was formed.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. In other words, they created a living lab of the Clinic’s largest emergency department. Integrate the system into the workflow.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2014

Daniels was a Major in the US Army , has an MBA from the Bloch School of Management at University of Missouri-Kansas City ( UMKC) , and moved into his VP role at U.S. Engineering in November 2013. Daniels : Several project management skills translate to skills indicative of a Vice President. Daniels : U.S.

Engineering 56

Engineering Servant Leader Learning-by-Doing Skills 56

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. You always draw upon successful elements of other client crises. Thinking Through the Strategies. by Hank Moore.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions. What went wrong?

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

To build a successful measurement program like this one, follow these steps: 1. You need to have senior management that really understands what value-based health care (VBHC) is all about. The board approved, and Erasmus’s next CEO – Ernst Kuipers – drove this forward from 2013. Get Institutional Commitment.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles. If you say we should, let’s do it.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? This was a $1.2

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. Our eight-person senior leadership committee, led by the department chair (me) and a hospital senior VP, outlined three core functions: quality, operations, and process improvement (PI).

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

The success of small business is largely measured on their ability to hire and maintain employees. Their success for work is neither viable nor likely considering PLAs. Republican Governor Christie is a union supporter, who is up for re-election in November, 2013. Wendy Powell is the author of Management Experience Acquired.

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Project Human Resources Cost Conflict of Interest 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

The Patriots were freakishly successful from 2000 to 2015, winning their division 12 out of 16 years, going to the Super Bowl six times, and winning four NFL championships. As in any successful Box 1 business, the challenge is to be disciplined, skillfully select and manage talent, and know how to exploit all available sources of leverage.

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Innovation Learning-by-Doing Committee Team 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

MACRA set up a Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee. Perhaps this committee can play an important role in threading the needle to show how both parties can work together to make the incentives work. Department of Health and Human Services has touted the program’s overall success. million to 25.8

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Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8