Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion in revenue in 2013. Operators set their work schedules and their vacations, design and monitor their own performance indicators, do their own maintenance, and are consulted on the choice of new machinery. Instead, she asks the team to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. Banking and payment processing are significant issues, and many businesses that handle marijuana directly have to operate as all-cash businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. billion in mining projects since 2010. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. Spot surveys become snapshots of limited customer input.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2013, my partners and I conducted a combination of surveys and interviews with over 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings, and one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column was politics. Need more evidence?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. We started working with the management and staff of the perioperative unit in 2014 to develop a more systematic, long-term approach for improving patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

BIPAC conducts extensive biennial studies of employer-employee communications programs through both national polling and surveys within companies deploying such communications. Our Prosperity Project (P2) strategy and platform is the largest and most pervasive business grassroots and advocacy platform in the United States.

Politics 8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Case in point: Ford is planning to introduce at least five new models after seeing a 33% increase in sales in the first half of 2013 in Nigeria.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

After surveying over 20,000 workers around the world, analyzing 50 major companies, conducting scores of experiments, and scouring the landscape of academic research in a range of disciplines, we came to one conclusion: Why we work determines how well we work. One 2013 study illustrates this well. How does culture drive performance?

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. In fact, a survey of retail managers suggests that a majority think customers are happier getting preferential treatment in public than in private. It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4% Journal of Consumer Research.

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Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

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). Bringing everyone into line is essential, but not necessarily easy or quick.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Big corporations seem to have it especially hard: according to an Accenture survey , only 15% of college students who graduated in 2015 said they would prefer to work for a large company. In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. Boredom seems inevitable.

Company 8

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. 1) Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project Spring Tracking Survey 2013. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P., Badger J.M.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. We’ve observed time and again in 360-degree feedback surveys that women executives believe politics present a particular dilemma for them.

Politics 8

Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. University alumni campaign programs often invest disproportionately to understand motivations through detailed surveys. If long-term infrastructure buildout is key, the focus could be on diaspora participation in these projects.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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. It was by no means a hiccup-free year on sustainability issues for Walmart, with deep concerns about corruption in its Mexican operations. Five Questions For 2013.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

first-generation immigrants make up 14% of the population, but in three separate surveys Americans guessed the amount was in the 32%–42% range. The same surveys indicate that people in more than a dozen European countries overestimated the number of immigrants in their countries threefold to fourfold, with similar effects.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A new survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals that 60% of Americans support the negotiations for trans-Pacific trade , down slightly from 2015. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. We should run pilots, test performance, and then either build on the experience or end the project. What about the decline in U.S.

Supply Chain 8

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