The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2022

The employees were asked to guess the salary of both their peers and their manager. Indeed, the data showed that when our peers’ salary was 10% higher than we thought, we reduce our hours by over 9%, when managers’ pay was 10% higher than we thought, our hours would raise by 1.5%. “It How pay transparency makes us feel.

Policies 117

Policies Learning-by-Doing Analysis Comparison 117

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development. The comparison to the PC is telling. Still others offer different deciding factors, like whether management is supportive. But ultimately Google is Google.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

In 2013, about 96% of eligible heart attack Medicare patients received this basic medication, which means 5,761 patients admitted for heart attack did not. In comparison, improving patient-experience scores collected through the HCAHPS survey presents tougher problems for hospital administrators. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Survey 8

Survey Health Care Process Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Marketing manager Grier was just plain tired of colleagues playing the expert in her domain. I’d love to say it’s simple to get started, but if you use the version of Outlook that I use — Outlook 2013 — you’ll need to navigate a rabbit’s warren of clicks and commands. It’s worth it.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Comparison Document Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. Which Management Style Will China Adopt? China’s Next Great Transition. An HBR Insight Center.

Policies 8

Policies Uncertainty Long-term Resistance 8

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Compare that to the recent rise of an impromptu city near Allahabad in India: In the week after January 14, 2013, the first day of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival — during which Hindus gather for a sacred bath at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers — around 10 million people had gathered there.

Long-term 9

Long-term Engineering Comparison Cooper 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then William Clay Ford, the owner of the Detroit Lions, asked him in 2000 to become the team’s general manager — the guy responsible for drafting players and hiring coaches. Ultimately, if he could make one change to his general-manager tenure," Rosenberg writes, "he wouldn''t be a general manager."

Creativity 8

Creativity Sports Travel Transportation 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. Having said that, it is also true that executives need help managing their globalization gambits. Thus, most groupings may be valid only in the short run.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. ” A good line, but not completely accurate.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

And that question is likely to be answered in the affirmative if the directors have managed to avoid the Peter Principle. Great at mid-level, the managers were not game-ready for the next level. An apples-to-apples comparison of the finalists can be vital as well. Leadership Microsoft Succession planning'

CEO 8

CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. Rollout in late 2013 was rocky for the federal exchange (and for some state exchanges when they first launched). The average credit was $270 per month. Burwell, the U.S.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. Lacking C ontrols: controls are typically unavailable, making valid comparisons and analysis more difficult.

Trends 8

Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Managing Millennials in Today’s Workforce” promise to help turn generational differences into an asset. ” As Elspeth Reeve wrote in The Atlantic in 2013 “It’s not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it’s that young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older.”

Survey 8

Survey Consultative Seminar Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

To explore this idea of elite degree fatigue — and to figure out what might be driving it — I spoke with entrepreneurs, executives, and hiring managers at a range of tech companies. So companies select for candidates who will find ways to create value with no input, feedback, or immediate recognition from management.

Software 8

Software Engineering Incentives CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I have inflated all the incomes to 2013 dollars to make comparisons more easily understood. Let’s look at how the pendulum has swung and how the treatment of the super-rich has changed. All the data is from the very handy Tax Foundation website. The First Era: 1862-1915.

System 8

System Incentives Hedge Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. That is a pretty sad state of affairs especially when you consider that other countries are not doing a great job – so we are twice as costly, not as some extremely wonderful amazing system but twice as costly as mediocre comparisons. Decades ago W.

Health Care 40

Health Care System Deming Letter 40