The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The researchers focused their attention on tweets surrounding the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon, before then expanding the work to examine a range of other stories that had been identified as true or false over a four year period to 2017. Whereas if it were just bots, we would need a technological solution.”.

Politics 74

Politics Sample Proposal Analysis 74

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. Seattle has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to optimise energy use – featured in this report on big data use by different cities. One example is the capability to slash energy use. The reason?

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. He focused his energies on the emerging digital books business and building a family of dedicated Nook digital devices, including color tablets.

Chief Executive Officer 97

Chief Executive Officer eBook Leadership Leadership Styles 97

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. -Daniel Kahneman. What was most surprising to you in studying the research into experimentation?

Power 95

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

North America's fracking fever has proviked experts (who once feared the world had passed Hubbert's Peak ) to predict the US will soon be a net energy exporter. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education.

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

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. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2013

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Project 58

Project Management Film Telecommunications 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

But the Rockefellers’ move may have more impact, for a key reason: their stated commitment to transition the divested funds to clean energy investments. If the divestment movement can reallocate capital toward clean technology companies, that could have a far greater impact on mitigating climate change than divestment alone.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist How To Energy Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Connected Homes are perhaps the clearest next proving ground for the IoT, combining both the potential to spawn new lines of products and services in areas such as security cameras and kitchen appliances, and the chance to reduce energy use and costs through smart thermostats and HVAC systems. Information & technology Internet'

Early Adopters 11

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The average annualized cost of cybercrime for global companies has increased nearly 62% since 2013, from $7.2 Target, which experienced a massive data breach in 2013, reported that the total cost of the breach exceeded $200 million. Cybercrime is here to stay, and it’s costing American firms a lot of money. million to $11.7

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Finally, some sustainability investments can pay for themselves through reduced energy consumption and waste over the long term. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products.

Execution 11

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. In a 2013 advertisement in The Washington Post, HP claimed that if you measured countries by power consumption in kilowatts, the fifth largest after China, the U.S., billion people.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. dependence on foreign oil. million annually.

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

I watch them to experience the magical energy of live performances. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. I have those any other live TV gems on DVD.

Energy 58

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, three trends gained purchase and this year, they’ll ascend. . Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. Managing yourself Tech industry Technology'

Trends 8

Trends Kleiner Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. How technology is changing the way we work. Weaver’s staff sent three million mailings a year to GM and non-GM customers, achieving a remarkable 25% response rate.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

A 2013 Harvard study also revealed that when researchers told participants that the physiological signs of stress prepared them to cope better they became less anxious and more confident in stressful situations, viewing their stress response as helpful.

Stress 15

Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India plans to catalyze $200-300 billion of new investment in renewable energy infrastructure over the next decade. Amazon entered India in 2013 when two local Indian companies, Flipkart and Snapdeal, had already established themselves as market leaders in eCommerce – and still rose to become the #1 online retailer in India.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

At the end of 2013, we randomly allocated the captains to three treatment groups and one control group, and in January 2014, all captains were told that their flight and fuel behavior would be monitored for the next eight months. These interventions were sent to the home address of each captain in the middle of every month for eight months.

Hawthorne Effect 8

Hawthorne Effect Efficiency Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

New technology has turned the U.S., however improbably, into the world’s largest energy producer. An Energy Bonanza . First, America’s energy bonanza has changed the equation. America’s energy bonanza is not a short-lived phenomenon. American creativity remains unsurpassed. And capital is abundant.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

David Carr, at The New York Times , summarized the industry’s precarious position as follows: “Producing serious news is an expensive enterprise with a beleaguered business model, one that remains tied to the tracks as a locomotive of splintered audiences and declining advertising hurtles toward it.” ( The New York Times ; October 20, 2013).

Price 9

Price Content Reputation Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. A 210 meter mean sea level (MSL) deep water facility at the Bergen site also provides deep water testing for the technology. Sponsor Content Insight from GE. Kendall, European Marketing Manager of Shell.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work. It is up to us to pick up where he left off.

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

Japan adopted its Comprehensive Strategy on Science, Technology, and Innovation in 2013. The focus of this strategy is the environment, energy, health and medical care, and social challenges. Opening to other Asian economies was also part of the strategy.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Health Care Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Increase your R&D spending.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. Time is a finite resource, but energy is not. In each, energy can be systematically expanded and regularly renewed.”

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet compared to great technological inventions of the past, it is also a colossal economic disappointment. The technologies of the past had massive new job creation effects that swamped displacement effects. The new machines were less expensive, far faster, more reliable, substantially smaller, and much more energy efficient.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

The good news: They’re responding “with pragmatism, energy, and ambition.” In 2013, for instance, Buttigieg called for staffers in just 1,000 days to address, through rehabilitation or demolition, 1,000 vacant and abandoned properties blighting the city. They are now on pace to beat his ambitious timetable.

Drucker 8

Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. ” Instead of viewing busyness as a sign of significance, top performers interpret busyness as an indication of wasted energy. Over the last few years, we have entered a new age in which managing your energy and time is not enough.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Tips Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

There was similar, though less dramatic, variation across sectors as well: financial services, health care, utilities, and telecommunications were relatively welcoming to female leadership, while fewer women were found at the top in basic materials, technology, energy, and industrial sectors.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Recognizing the growing consumer interest in sustainable products and looking to solve consumer challenges such as high energy costs, CPG companies have developed new products to gain access to this market.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

But when we consider the momentum – i.e., the five-year rate of change from 2008 to 2013 – the two countries are far apart. Based on the performance of countries on the index during the years 2008 to 2013, we assigned them to one of four trajectory zones: Stand Out, Stall Out, Break Out, and Watch Out.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8