Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

One of the biggest challenges facing any company in global expansion mode is how to maintain swift and sure communication. That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. What do you do?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) What did we do?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

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. Medicine involves leadership. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call. .

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Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

This was a major theme at the Global Education & Skills Forum last week in Dubai. At the forum we were reminded that the global economy is facing a “talent time bomb.” And not only for their own benefit, the economic fortunes of many other global regions depend on it.

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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. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants. into multiple global markets.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

“We recruited globally, and this candidate was absolutely top flight. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya.

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Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Recently, Bitcoin has become popular in the country with the digital currency trading at $13,000 USD in October (at the time about 50% higher than Bitcoin’s global price).

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. We began collaborating when we recognized how interlaced asset management and product recovery were in textbook CEs. We identified these approaches through our work with life cycle asset management company DLL.

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Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

As Bitcoin entrepreneur and Circle founder Jeremy Allaire — whose company this morning announced another $17 million in venture capital financing — explained at a panel I moderated Monday at Harvard Business School, there is an appropriate role for regulators to play in ensuring consumer protection. When companies like Mt.

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Entrepreneur Decentralization Banking Compliance 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. The most successful accelerators identify the respective entrepreneur’s specific financing needs rather than assuming that there is one path to success and scale.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. In 2013, the multinational contract manufacturer Flextonics — which makes products for Apple and Microsoft — began offering Lab IX , a service that connects startups with manufacturing partners.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

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Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. By the end of 2013, Gartner research estimates half of all companies will have to produce social media records for e-discovery. Limited users are free to draft tweets and updates, which are then fed into approval queues for manager review.

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. Looking further into the future, Iran is a potential global trade hub. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. The Opportunities.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In the first half of 2012, thousands of merger and acquisition deals were announced globally, worth more than $900 billion. Predictions are that 2013 will be even more active as companies that have stockpiled cash look to invest in new growth opportunities. What you as a manager can do, however, is prepare.

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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). This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. This observation highlights the challenges that global organizations face in establishing and maintaining a unified culture when operating in the context of multiple national, regional and local cultures. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g.

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Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 hours a day. Insight Center.

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Bottom-up Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 15

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. Regardless, many providers still believe that measuring outcomes is too difficult to do.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music (first downloads and then streaming) had changed the business dramatically. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. So they began to prepare for their next decade.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% in 2012; 5.4%

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Every manager, male or female, saw the difference very fast, without any preaching on my part. Most companies and managers think they speak in gender-neutral, “meritocratic” terms equally comprehensible and motivating to everyone. They were carefully chosen, of course. So far, so good. He’d thought it was nice!

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

Admittedly, fund managers cannot even explain the algorithms because the networks learn as they go and change algorithms accordingly. On one day — May 17, 2013 — over $100 million changed hands before the rest of the public even knew an event had occurred. Finance Internet Technology' but seconds and milliseconds.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Long-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. For the first time in history there are Israeli companies scaling up successfully as global market leaders, and the ecosystem is evolving to support them. billion in 2013. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Medicare tax that will be imposed on certain investment income for higher income Americans beginning in 2013. The Social Security tax holiday is designed to leave more money in our paychecks.

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