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.

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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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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. The numbers were grim. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.

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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. that has both organizational and technological components. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In our case, the value proposition is unparalleled top-management exposure, real impact on strategy, a focus on professional development, the opportunity to transition into a management role in the technology industry after a minimum of two years with the group, and a fun team.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. .” Good means directors who exercise independent oversight and who are deeply engaged in the company’s long-term strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Among the approved recommendations were opportunities to save nearly $4 million in HR administrative cost by deploying more self-service technology supported by a shared services organization, nearly $8 million from insourcing second physician reviews of inpatient charts, and up to $3.5

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The board approved, and Erasmus’s next CEO – Ernst Kuipers – drove this forward from 2013. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team. This facilitates persistence later if the program encounters skepticism or administrative or technological obstacles – as does sometimes happen. Insight Center.

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. This led to the HR VP brokering a meeting with the CEO and an invitation to make a formal presentation to the Executive Committee. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. We held scores of open meetings involving our advisory committees during the two years I was national coordinator.

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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.

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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.

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Insurance Committee Power Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas. And let's not forget the argument that better-performing start-ups create jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas. And let's not forget the argument that better-performing start-ups create jobs.

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