Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. It was an ambitious but concrete plan.

Execution 12

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

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?

Company 8

Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

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. that has both organizational and technological components. IT management Leadership Project management'

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

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.

Diversity 8

Diversity Engineering Committee Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 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.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 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.

Airlines 8

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. As with the G&A project, a steering committee composed of the facility’s senior leaders was formed.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

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. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team. Develop a Project Management Plan for the Pilot.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

There has been a subsequent improvement from 11% to 15% of female Executive Committee members, and 70% of companies in the top 20 now have at least one woman on their senior executive teams – up from 60% last year. And three companies still have men-only executive committees. In 2014, are we witnessing a trickle-down effect?

Execution 10

Execution Committee Diversity Operations 10

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. Innovation'

Innovation 11

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?

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

In the long-version explanation of the prizes published by the Nobel committee last fall, Campbell was cited more often than anybody else, apart from the three winners. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. Absolutely.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Last week the House Committee on Education and Workforce of the U.S. 1313 ), was introduced by Representative Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions should soon consider similar legislation.

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9