Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But talent acquisition and learning and development are altogether different — and they should never be done on the cheap. That’s the specialized insight required to develop the right sourcing and recruiting strategy. Examples include payroll, benefits, risk and compliance, and labor relations. That is not a vote of confidence.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

But, working with the DPIs, the medical management team developed metrics relevant to specialists. For some departments, the medical management team worked with the DPI to develop new metrics that made the department accountable for improving care in specific ways. Grant Project. Patient satisfaction surveys. Department.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. Even HR itself agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Under these command and control conditions, teaching looks more like automation then imagination.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Yet the decision to green-light a project is usually based solely on “expert opinions” — in other words, executives’ intuition supplemented by standard regression analysis. Only three or four out of every ten movies made in America breaks even or earns a profit. There’s got to be a better way. We think we’ve found one. Here’s how it worked.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Despite the development of numerous techniques and tools to structure patient handoffs and improve the transfer of communication, we haven’t seen much improvement in reducing medical errors. By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. Adopting a more systematic process.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Organizational Development Book. A fourth challenge is the failure to deliver expected results. Adapted from.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Spot surveys become snapshots of limited customer input. The call center logs customer complaints.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. One day, I have no doubt we will see household brands develop. medical marijuana sales hit an estimated $1.5 Impressive, but that’s only the start.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. Above all, the Chinese don't want to see the U.S. China is one of the world's most shrewd investors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 A survey of its 5,500 U.S.-based In 2013 alone, Kickstarter users funded nearly 20,000 projects and committed nearly $500 million. cut of sales. billion in merchandise.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2013, my partners and I conducted a combination of surveys and interviews with over 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings, and one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column was politics. Need more evidence?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” The company was already developing content, targeted specifically at recruits, that demonstrated its “culture and the type of company we want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years.” So venture out. physicians are members of.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010. In its survey of over 200 institutional investors, 59.1% Fostering innovation. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5 in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S. and Canada.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

After surveying over 20,000 workers around the world, analyzing 50 major companies, conducting scores of experiments, and scouring the landscape of academic research in a range of disciplines, we came to one conclusion: Why we work determines how well we work. One 2013 study illustrates this well. How does culture drive performance?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client.

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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). Use consistent language across departments – and within them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

It sometimes seems as if Frederick Winslow Taylor’s unfinished project is around right the corner: A time-and-motion utopia in which managers can track almost any aspect of employee behavior on a second-by-second basis. In 2013, at the U.S. Do wearables invade your employees’ privacy?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% MirageC/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

When it is, what we hear is the emphatic argument that college works because it does pay, which is supported by data like that gathered by the OECD''s most recent compendium of education-related data, Education at a Glance 2013 , which covers the period through 2011. The data show a modest rise to 4.8%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. To develop a routine, time for reflection should be a regularly scheduled and a protected event on the leader’s calendar.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Selecting the top three award-winning case studies and the best-selling cases each year for the five-year window between 2009-2013 yielded a total of 53 different case studies — some of the same cases came up as best-sellers several years in a row, and a few were both best-sellers and award-winners. Pink topics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Clearly one reason is remittances: according to the World Bank, over $400 billion was sent back to developing countries in 2012. These transfers feed directly into the domestic economies of emerging markets and boost growth, but they do not necessarily push the country up the development ladder.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. To make the exercise feasible and affordable, they turned to Columbia University, which developed a new algorithm for fast carbon footprinting. Five Questions For 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

first-generation immigrants make up 14% of the population, but in three separate surveys Americans guessed the amount was in the 32%–42% range. The same surveys indicate that people in more than a dozen European countries overestimated the number of immigrants in their countries threefold to fourfold, with similar effects.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. Many Americans would like to help developing economies grow, especially if their higher incomes and stronger global supply chains boost U.S. About 60% of U.S. manufacturing.

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