Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Foreign Policy reports in this intriguing list of the 10 most overlooked stories of 2012. All of which points to a 2013 that looks nothing like 2012. FINANCING THAT VACATION HOME IN VANUATU. How Google Plans to Find the UnGoogleable (Technology Review). Brazil became a net importer of people. Nothing could be easier.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing GDP Bottom-up Call Center 8

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. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Start Up Paradox.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

Company 13

Company Survey Finance Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

in 2013 to 3.7 The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. If the GE board had had a finance committee, the board might have done a better job of overseeing the design and funding of its retirement plans. The board has since transformed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Quota Attainment Average. Average New Deal Size.

Metrics 11

Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

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.

CFO 11

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Daily practices, workplace structures, reporting relationships, information sharing, customer interaction, and even competition are also thereby transformed. Beyond this financial impact, employees in the digitally advanced companies also reported a 50% higher index of well-being at work. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

As Pew Internet reports : Young adults: 50 percent of teen smartphone owners, aged 12-17, say they use the internet mostly on their cell phone, according to a 2013 Pew Internet report on Teens and Technology. Similarly, 45 percent of young adults aged 18-29 reported in 2012 that they mostly go online with a mobile device.

Content 12

Content Audience Marketing Strategy Report 12

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

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. percent to 7.5

Company 8

Company Stress Participative Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Consider these datapoints: American Express OPEN''s latest Growing Under the Radar report details just how strong these businesses have been over the past decade. Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder." In 1977, only 4.5%

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Benchmarking Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. Prices for the 5S in the U.S. 5C prices in the U.S. start at $99 on contract and $549 off-contract.

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. Prices for the 5S in the U.S. 5C prices in the U.S. start at $99 on contract and $549 off-contract.

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 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

JANUARY 12, 2018

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

This discrepancy is likely tied to a difference in methodology as the snapshot is based on concrete app store data while popular surveys draw from the self-reported input of app developers willing to reveal their monthly revenues.). — reports app store search accounts for more than 67% of actual app discovery.

Development 8

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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

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. China Business Council report that they anticipate double-digit revenue expansion in China, when the study was done in 2014. technology and communications companies. And once again, the U.S. ” A weaker U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” of Apple’s buybacks reported thus far for fiscal 2014. I disagree with this priority. That’s just 2.1%

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

The genetic testing in question would be financed as an administrative cost, rather than as a regular medical claim, and would be for the benefit of the employer, not to inform the confidential doctor-patient relationship. This figure is likely to decline as genetic testing technology improves and more vendors get into the market.

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9