Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. We are all lean now — or soon will be.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

In the European Union, government VCs allocated €3,621,000,000 to finance innovation and growth in small and medium-size businesses from 2007 to 2013. The initial aim of our work was to study financial decision making and help the group to develop their processes, not to look for gendered discourse.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance Influence 8

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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Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. However, we are likely at a key inflection point of AI adoption.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. For years, the company offered limited refurbished products which were produced through an ad-hoc reconditioning process.

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Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. The most successful accelerators identify the respective entrepreneur’s specific financing needs rather than assuming that there is one path to success and scale.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Transitioning from a military career to the corporate world can be a fraught process for the nearly 360,000 U.S. Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers.

Career 12

Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

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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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

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. Banking and payment processing are significant issues, and many businesses that handle marijuana directly have to operate as all-cash businesses.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

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. Another 20% might have, but were discouraged from doing so because they believed they wouldnt get the loan, or because the process was too arduous.). Finance Small/medium business Technology'

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Nor can we develop good approaches to analyzing, preserving and transforming cultures. If we can define what organizational culture is , it gives us a handle on how to diagnose problems and even to design and develop better cultures. Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn.

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Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming. Collaborate and partner with cloud platform providers.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. Many had been educated in English-speaking institutions.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Digitally enabled tools and processes have altered what and how a business sells, flipped the tables on the typical customer relationship, introduced a glut of new channels and competitors, and made it harder for organizations to break through the “noise.”. Digital disruption has driven much of this shift.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. This program, our Fresh Food “Farmacy ,” has had clinical impacts superior to those provided by medications that cost billions of dollars to develop, and has done so at dramatically lower cost. Lee Hodges/Getty Images. >.

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Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. ’ ” The losers.

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. And it potentially eliminates the need for all intermediaries in most transactions, even those outside finance.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I also know all too well that, like all strategies, superconsumer strategies can be hard to implement, because of internal processes, misaligned incentives, and organizational structures that are difficult to navigate. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. Building Empathy.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. Develop a Project Management Plan for the Pilot. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness. The European Union has 412 million internet users, but its market is fragmented; it is still in the process of creating a “digital single market.” Digital markets are uneven.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

A witty comment or botched response on Twitter can travel to Facebook and even news websites in minutes (think of the Oreo tweet during the Superbowl blackout of 2013 ). But in the process, little attention is paid to the humanity of either customers or employees. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? billion in 2013.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8