Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

Bond 11

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 11

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

” FYI: The trend of “best year ever” was originated more than a decade ago by the late, great Jim Rohn. words for 2013 – I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. One innovation helping me significantly is Dragon Dictate for Mac. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Seminar 50

Seminar Open-book Customer Loyalty Books 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1. Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009.

Disruptive Innovation 13

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Italcementi has achieved this through a co-innovation process with great contemporary architects. Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project. This project called for cement walls able to filter light.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., In a similar vein, a new group of innovators is finding efficiencies not in separating people by age but by bringing them together. Nesterly , an intergenerational homesharing service, is one of these promising innovations.

Education 12

Education Absenteeism Efficiency Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

It is one of the first products to launch out of Google X, the company’s research lab that aspires to “moonshot” innovations, and which is also developing a self-driving car. Some emphasize the importance of sticking to innovations adjacent to a firm’s core business. When Innovation Is Strategy. How Boards Can Innovate.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

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

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The VC industry has failed to innovate. The future has really never looked better!

Venture Capitalist 18

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. That’s a nascent trend in need of a champion.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Third, their external focus keeps everyone aware of emerging trends in the economy and the industry.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With every project, they are spreading the word through their networks, and the connection to #GivingTuesday becomes more valuable. On Twitter, the hashtag trended to number one on Tuesday, November 27. Everyone connected with #GivingTuesday is happy to see excitement growing as our next big day –December 3, 2013 – grows near.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Even if the United States implemented all the approaches whose effectiveness has been measured, only 40% of the estimated $1 trillion of wasteful spending would be addressed, leaving a significant opportunity for innovation in all areas of health care. Insight Center. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. Our most satisfying work comes about when we’re playing offense, working on projects that we ourselves initiate. All of these suggestions are useful individually, but they also highlight an important trend. Own your time.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Tips Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

In e-commerce, advances in tracking and analytics have made it possible for retailers to understand what individual customers are doing before they make a purchase, and to gather and analyze hundreds and thousands of data points to identify trends. “I don’t come in every morning and say, “How am I going to innovate today?

Retail 12

Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Improving Financial Performance.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Those attributes help us identify a set of likely trends on the horizon. Then, we put each trend through what we call The Five Questions: Where/how are people wasting their time?

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Orange Is the New Black became an unexpected hit, helping to put Netflix on the map as a creator of innovative original entertainment. People may fear the trend of more media content coming from data-driven platform companies instead of industry insiders, from eggheads rather than creators.

Creativity 8

Creativity Project Audience Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013. They foster innovation. By attracting a variety of members from myriad backgrounds and industries, the looser connections of these constantly churning spaces also appear to have innovation advantages. And for good reason. They make starting a business simpler.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Case Study Innovation Media 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward. Fortunately, there are some encouraging trends. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. Open ecosystems will succeed.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To expect anything as complex as this particular project to emerge fully functional on day one was the first (and perhaps most important) failure. The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. Playing the blame game.

Company 8

Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Macro Trends. 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 cap the year, the pure electric Tesla Model S was selected as the Motor Trend Car of the Year. Let's look at some top macro- and company-level stories.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10