Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. The good news is, new technologies are enabling a seamless data migration process and ensuring the structure of the data is consistent in the manner it needs to be maintained and accessed.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Drivers of Change. You can’t have trends without change!

Trends 50

Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Background Information. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Social exchange not only grounds women but it also allows them to share information and solutions to the common problems they face. That sounds like progress.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

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. No AP business journalist lost a job.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. We are all lean now — or soon will be.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Unilever thrives in informal environments by selling smaller package sizes at low unit costs (but higher margins). Mnangagwa’s first actions in office underscore how important he views economic recovery.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Daily practices, workplace structures, reporting relationships, information sharing, customer interaction, and even competition are also thereby transformed. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. After all, when HR people routinely talk to finance staff, they are effectively working as members of a cross-functional team.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Morphis' 238 Twitter followers were privy to insider information — a big SEC no-no. He was fired shortly thereafter for the offense of "improperly communicating company information through social media.".

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

How did this happen and what can be gleaned from it to inform the transformation of the CHRO? Baseline financial skills are still essential, but international experience, industry knowledge, investor relations acumen, technology expertise, and strategic prowess are now just as much part of the package. Finance Human resources'

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’d like to share what I learned while leading an SBM — to help other states as they navigate the health insurance landscape and, more broadly, to inform health-system leaders, employers, and policy makers about the challenges SBMs face and the solutions they’re developing. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world.

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Company Stress Participative Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Decision-makers argue that users only need quick, task-focused tools on their mobile devices, because the desktop will always be the preferred choice for more in-depth, information-seeking research. Those users want and need access to the same information, just presented in a different form factor. Welcome to the One-Screen World.

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Content Audience Marketing Strategy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

We see this in nature (ant colonies, for example, only grow to a certain point before retreating), in the brain (neurons multiply exponentially in a child''s brain but shrink down to a fraction of their maximum level by adulthood), and in technological networks ( remember MySpace? ). Finance Internet Technology'

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Long-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. By providing software and counseling, the exchanges will help consumers make informed comparisons among these offerings. Many conservatives still decry the ACA.

Insurance 9

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. But a lot of times, glitches have to do with newer technologies, which we are learning break in unexpected ways.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

The company provides services in a myriad of industries, such as health care, water treatment, aviation, and financing. JPMorgan Chase directors were similarly criticized for not preventing a $6 billion trading loss in the company’s investment office back in 2013.

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Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. Google Health was intended to be the premier place for consumers to consolidate their health information. Securing their participation will be critical if health-information platforms are to succeed.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. When I give a weekly address to all employees — in English — everyone worldwide can receive and act on that information instantly.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Consider what the board of General Electric has declared as its criteria for new directors.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. Companies like Apple and Cisco were dropped from the Chinese government’s approved technology vendors list, after the Edward Snowden leaks about the NSA accessing data from U.S. And once again, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

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. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Building Empathy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. No single party controls the data or the information.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The board approved, and Erasmus’s next CEO – Ernst Kuipers – drove this forward from 2013. Engaging leadership in the finance domain – representing the denominator of the value equation – is helpful as it will ensure dedicated resources. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

It would also resolve current conflicts between various laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). Therefore, they could share this individual genetic testing information with employers. But it raises many concerns that employers should consider.

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9