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. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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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. Our leadership practices remain authoritative. And, a paltry 38% reported that their organizations had effective leadership running the show.

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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.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. 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.

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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.

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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. 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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

While every CEO is forced to work through organizational change, many will tell you that of all their duties, change management scares them the most, because nearly every aspect of a company and its leadership is tested. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The European Commission believes that digital business ecosystems are critical to Europe''s future competitive ability, and the key to realizing "this promise of fostering the development of those technologies, systems, applications and services that are critical to achieving higher growth, more and better jobs, and greater social inclusion."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Competition Leadership Retail' But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

This newfound optimism could be the usual bright-eyed resolve that comes with a new year, but it more likely resulted from something else: the passing of The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (“the tax bill”) in December. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles. Part of the time was spent in navigating the institutional hurdles that inevitably accompany every attempt at doing something new (zoning rules, insurance). What Went Wrong? The shallow answer is not enough customers. A small number, but these are also small markets.

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