Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

At that time, many consumers adopted a new level of frugality , such that they took on previously outsourced tasks and became more self-reliant. Despite being a leader in the mobile phone market with a market share of over 40%, Nokia experienced a dramatic decline that led to a sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Of course, government has long looked to business for new ways of managing. Public variants of outsourcing were pushed as part of George W. Bush's President's Management Agenda , and President Obama appointed the country's first Chief Performance Officer. And as they do, business managers should take note.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Although the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Bill of 2013 — introduced four weeks ago by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. Change management India Information & technology' That will allow them to shift from renting out intelligence to creating intellectual property.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

As the effects began to play out in the ''70s and ''80s, Drucker wrote extensively about the need for management practices to change. The widespread erosion of ROA confirms that our management practices and institutions are struggling to respond to the relentless pressure. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The nature of the workforce and management is shifting. Management is trying to adapt to these new realities of the workforce. As a reaction to these business changes, the enterprise is beginning to respond in a number of ways: Outsourcing services. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013. A brand manager at a Fortune 100 company expressed deep frustration to me: “We want to connect to our customers in a new way. Companies no longer want to outsource customer relationships. Agencies are stuck on advertising.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

In closing, my test for outsourcing human work to machines is this: any task that has an output or outcome which can be pre-stated or even guessed, should eventually be performed by a machine. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Take Sovaldi, launched by Gilead Sciences in late 2013 as a treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and recently superseded by Gilead’s newest drug, Harvoni. To illustrate the problem, let’s start with an example from October 2013, when Express Scripts decided to exclude 46 drugs from its formulary.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Take Sovaldi, launched by Gilead Sciences in late 2013 as a treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and recently superseded by Gilead’s newest drug, Harvoni. To illustrate the problem, let’s start with an example from October 2013, when Express Scripts decided to exclude 46 drugs from its formulary.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

In Lean In , her 2013 manifesto about how women need to forge ahead professionally, Sandberg credited her husband, David Goldberg, for providing the support she needed to thrive professionally. My manager suggested I take a staff role for a while to create a less busy schedule. I went back to work a few days after my husband died.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. The behemoth of “legal process outsourcing” is Axiom, which has commodified large companies’ contracting and certain litigation functions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

CIOs will need to free up time and resources currently dedicated to traditional IT responsibilities — delivering transactions, infrastructure, technology and code — to focus more on facilitating and accelerating collaboration, choreography, orchestration, and the provisioning, management, monitoring and securing of services.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Megafirm had outsourced the management of the problem to us. When companies become too complex to manage, they create costs to others. The big banks had well-intentioned formal processes for risk management, but no one was really, genuinely accountable for the risks they took. And it is a general tendency.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

If after looking at your log, you’ve uncovered very little wiggle room, you might explore the idea of outsourcing parts of your project to a paid helper, says Gulati. ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. . He sold that company and started a new one.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies. ” Yana Kakar, Global Managing Partner of Dalberg, reserves 3 two-hour blocks of time for reflection each week. She comments, “Thinking is the one thing you can’t outsource as a leader. By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%.

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