Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2012

Chances are tax rates will remain the same until 2013; thus, if you can afford the luxury of deferring income now, push it into 2012 and reduce your 2011 taxable income immediately. Purchase extra, necessary items such as Q1 2012 inventory or pay 2012 property or E&O insurance early.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2013

We can help you develop a risk profile, benchmark your risks against industry peers, identify risk management program gaps, and develop and implement a multi-year oversight program to manage your risks consistent with industry guidelines. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Risk Management Management Competitive Advantage Insurance 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

can now purchase private health insurance in 14 state-based marketplaces (SBMs), along with the federally facilitated marketplace (FFM). For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Life insurance is – or should be – a central element in most households’ financial planning. Yet life insurance sales have been on a steady decline for years. According to LIMRA , the life insurance industry trade association, the number of individual holders of life insurance in the U.S. years in 2013.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

What should we be doing now to insure we have a future? The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Best Leadership Books of 2013. It is in nonlinear—nonconforming, breakthrough—change.

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. Mobility support would also help people move to where jobs are.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. Car insurers can use sensors to track whether someone actually is a safe driver, rather than use inaccurate proxies like age and gender.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Human Resources & Leadership Development Professionals—Cohort 1.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

Playing To Win is a convergence of sports analogies and practical business skills to educate and entertain readers as they further develop their sales abilities. In my view, there are three common pitfalls salespeople must avoid to insure maximum results regardless of where they are in their career. Self-stagnation.

Sports 50

Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Your chosen Porsche is delivered to your house with insurance and maintenance as well as unlimited miles and flips to other models included. Here are three strategies for developing digital distribution approaches that minimize risk: Embrace Stealth. UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest health insurers in the U.S.,

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

That’s why health insurance companies can offer customers lower premiums by restricting the size of provider networks. Take Sovaldi, launched by Gilead Sciences in late 2013 as a treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and recently superseded by Gilead’s newest drug, Harvoni. Meanwhile, analysts’ predictions of total 2018 U.S.

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Cost Committee Insurance Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

That’s why health insurance companies can offer customers lower premiums by restricting the size of provider networks. Take Sovaldi, launched by Gilead Sciences in late 2013 as a treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and recently superseded by Gilead’s newest drug, Harvoni. Meanwhile, analysts’ predictions of total 2018 U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Committee Insurance Health Care 8

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.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. (A First, let’s get our bearings.

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Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

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. bribes and kickbacks).

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. According to a 2013 CEB study , “only one in four HR organizations have effectively integrated their talent management practices…with the company’s strategic objectives.”

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Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Journal writer Dennis Berman begins by citing Kellogg CEO John Bryant, the respected head of a well-run company, who was describing one of its “innovations” for 2013. That word is innovation, and it’s quickly losing whatever meaning it once had. What was the game-changing, head-spinning new offering that Kellogg unveiled? The Gone Nutty!

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Innovation Kaplan Insurance Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

That's a problem we can fix by focusing on creating skills and developing talent, instead of waiting for the elusive perfect hire. But a number of free or low-cost IT training services have emerged, such as Codecademy and Google Code University , which many companies use as talent development tools. One such example: veterans.

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Discount Training Insurance Education 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. According to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer , fewer than 20% of respondents believe leaders are actually telling the truth when confronted with a difficult issue in their organizations.

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CIO Leadership Drucker Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Progress is measured with 169 targets.

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Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

With regular noncommercial cars, Uber and its drivers avoided commercial insurance, commercial registration, commercial plates, special driver’s licenses, background checks, rigorous commercial vehicle inspections, and countless other expenses. But as Lyft began offering cheaper service with regular cars, Uber had to respond.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

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

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. Roger Adams, CMO says: “As USAA developed into a data-driven organization, we were able to accurately predict the impact of different marketing investment decisions.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Like any industry, the medical cannabis sector needs everything from lawyers and accountants to human resources professionals, insurance specialists, and consultants. medical marijuana sales hit an estimated $1.5

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

Several studies have shown that a patient such as Janice might be less likely to have insurance, less likely to have a regular physician , less likely to report symptoms, less likely to seek preventive care, and less informed about the lifestyle changes she should make to improve her health.

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Health Care Document Training Compliance 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. And it’s with employees’ health in mind that we also offer generous benefits: Our insurance, wellness, and employee-assistance programs are more extensive than those of most health systems.

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Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. Lafley, called Playing to Win. For the great success stories of our time, the tight match of Where to Play and How to Win is immediately obvious.

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First-mover Advantage Retail Strategy Pharmaceuticals 15

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. Every company requires a way of calibrating its strategy to the growth drivers in its industry, and developing a geographic value map.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. Jeff Bezos.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

These improvements helped attract more participants: As of July 2013, GHDonline hosted 10,000 expert members — engineers, researchers, architects, policymakers, advocates, pharmacists, community health workers, physicians, managers, midwives, program officers, nurses, and social workers — across 170 countries and 10 public communities.

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Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

In March 2013, a U.S. How can we hire, retain, and develop the best people — regardless of race — if we are not even aware of the forces that dominate the choices we make? Psychologist Joseph LeDoux refers to bias as our human “danger detector,” as it provides a quick way to insure our safety.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Metrics Kahneman Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. What will this adaptation look like?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) Would our health insurance programs include their doctors and hospitals? We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We It was a highly valued change.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Beyond individual firms, there are now more than 1,000 cities across four continents where people can share cars. chain restaurant industry.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance. McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10