Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yes, I do realize that given the current economic environment and cost cutting – especially around training unfortunately – some of these companies may have their programs on hold or scaled back to fewer numbers of attendees.). She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. There are very few people who have at some point in their lives not taken up a caregiver’s role. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 30 – The Cost of Not Engaging Employees. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Note, for fiscal 2013 the U.S. For example, certain national parks like the Grand Canyon generate more cash from entrance fees and permits (at least at this time of year) than the cost to run the parks (what the government pays the park rangers). Cutting costs Finance Government' It would force the U.S.

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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. That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

The Syracuse story, for example, shows the top five telemarketers in New York were paid 44% — not 95% — of the $201 million they raised in 2013. Raising money always costs money, but the ROI typically improves over the long term. They rely on telemarketing because it doesn’t have heavy up-front costs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

They usually run into at least one of four barriers: They lack access to used products, they aren’t able to refurbish or recycle used products in a cost-effective way, their products are not designed with circularity in mind, and their customers discount the value of refurbished or remanufactured products. Two Success Stories.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

As Bitcoin entrepreneur and Circle founder Jeremy Allaire — whose company this morning announced another $17 million in venture capital financing — explained at a panel I moderated Monday at Harvard Business School, there is an appropriate role for regulators to play in ensuring consumer protection. When companies like Mt.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08 Cuts to 2013 budget : $209 Million or 5%. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. Finance Venture capital' The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Unless your company’s return on capital exceeds its cost of capital, no amount of revenue growth can create value. For the many firms whose cost of capital and return on capital are roughly equal, in fact, the only path to value creation is to increase return on capital.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

And we need to focus on the aspect of the situation that surprises me the most: the lack of innovative financing mechanisms to allow investors (companies, individuals, or governments) to channel much needed funds to where we all know they will reap a reward. Corporate social responsibility Education Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Lincoln had a vision of saving the Union at any cost. Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Then, in 2013, she launched Portfolia, a platform that allows start-ups to raise money from the crowd, whether family, friends, or professional investors.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Management’s challenge is to figure out how to capture the benefits of digitization, while minimizing the costs – and making sure those costs are shared and not borne disproportionately by one group. This change is happening more commonly than we think.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Roughly 80% of individuals and families who bought their health insurance through an SBM or FFM in 2014 received a tax credit to defray the cost of premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Accountable Care Organization (ACO) models in both the private and the public sectors are rewarding providers for lowering the overall costs of care and keeping patients healthy. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. But it is also one of the most amenable to simple, low-cost behavioral interventions. Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. The size of the gig economy and how fast it’s growing also seem to be over-imagined at times.

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 24, 2023

Launched in 2013, this scholarship program has since made significant strides in promoting post-secondary education in the state. One of the key drivers behind the establishment of this scholarship was to bridge the gap between the rising cost of education and the financial capabilities of students and their families.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. If $199 upfront for the premium 5S on contract does not work for a customer, offer them $100 upfront plus an extra $5 per month for the 24 months of the contract, or no money down and an extra $10 monthly finance payment. Verizon, for instance, has reportedly committed to purchase over $23.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. in the September 26, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). The health insurance exchanges have the potential to fulfill the hopes of both conservatives and liberals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. If $199 upfront for the premium 5S on contract does not work for a customer, offer them $100 upfront plus an extra $5 per month for the 24 months of the contract, or no money down and an extra $10 monthly finance payment. Verizon, for instance, has reportedly committed to purchase over $23.5

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The availability of this data creates fertile ground for robos to provide algorithmic insights and recommendations that deliver highly predictive, error-proof, and low-cost advising. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. The costs of AI-enabled tools are falling, and availability is rising.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And the costs of doing business in a heavily regulated industry can be prohibitive. And more are joining every day.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. In 2013, the multinational contract manufacturer Flextonics — which makes products for Apple and Microsoft — began offering Lab IX , a service that connects startups with manufacturing partners.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

He’s a middle-aged former minister of finance for France and a former professor at Harvard Business School. percent in 2013, earnings per share rose by more than 50 percent, and administrative costs declined from 13 percent to 10 percent. Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5 percent to 7.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down. That could be a bad thing, a step away from investing in talent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In comparison to larger firms, small businesses are less well equipped to efficiently navigate the loan process  in economic parlance, their search costs are higher.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. This is because self-service, which requires ad network customers to pre-pay, forces app developers to use credit cards to finance their app advertising campaigns.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Implementing the model would cost only $100,000 – so the project was quickly declared one of BuildDirect’s five rocks.

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