Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Although medical trainees spend years learning about physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry, there are few formal avenues through which trainees learn fundamental leadership skills, such as how to lead a team, how to confront problem employees, how to coach and develop others, and how to resolve conflict.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How well are those efforts reported to your investors? That may be changing as “enhanced” or “integrated” reporting gains momentum across the globe. Japan’s Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry published The Ito Review in 2014 which points to integrated reporting as a way to combat “short-termism.”

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Whichever way you look at it, the countries producing the majority of the next generation of workers are still the ones least able to help them develop. Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions.

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GDP Education Finance Globalization 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. In interviews, investors in both emerging market and high-income country settings consistently report having more difficulty sourcing quality deals in emerging markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 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.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Daily practices, workplace structures, reporting relationships, information sharing, customer interaction, and even competition are also thereby transformed. Beyond this financial impact, employees in the digitally advanced companies also reported a 50% higher index of well-being at work. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The CEO thought he needed to step out of the chief sales role to focus on operations and finances. By 2013, the CEO, his business partner and an early private equity investor received an offer to sell some of their shares to a large company. Consider the case of a $30 million manufacturer. Back in 2001, it was growing rapidly.

Leadership 8

Leadership Leadership Pipeline Loyalty CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

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CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9 billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. New players are fearlessly sensing the opportunity.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. . $4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016. Analytics are growing in every business function and industry.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

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. So far, the same seems to hold true for AI: Early AI adopters with a very proactive, strictly offensive strategy report a much better profit outlook than those without one.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

Furthermore, I understand all too keenly the complexities of determining a fair valuation for companies that are too early in their development to fit existing measurement standards and can't meet the criteria for standard bank or SBA funding. The April 2012 report estimates that 452 crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) raised nearly $1.5

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Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

According to a Kauffman Foundation study , 72% of entrepreneurs surveyed come from self-described middle class backgrounds, and another 22%reported being from upper lower class backgrounds. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. Each day the employees get a report on how how far we are toward that revenue goal.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 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