Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. The numbers were grim. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.

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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. Adobe Dreamweaver) as well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. And no one should doubt that what happens in the next few months is extremely important—as former cabinet officer Wilbur Cohen said, good policy is 1% inspiration and 99% implementation. Will they work or won’t they?

Insurance 9

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

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. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

” When the company upgraded its commercial insurance line for small businesses a few years ago, the agents jammed internal call centers with questions about how the policies worked and how to set sales quotes. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Later, as a project officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, he channeled resources to risk mitigation schemes that allowed banks to better serve small farmers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This battle has implications for who sets educational policy and gets to decide the future of public education.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive. Increase your R&D spending. If you did, then take action now.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Not just conceptually in terms of work-life balance, but also physically, with the introduction of wearables and other employee-tracking technologies. Tesco, the UK-based retailer, uses wearable technology on many of the people working in their warehouses to keep track of product orders and help boost efficiency. In 2013, at the U.S.

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As a result, the United States experienced five years of the lowest growth in health care costs ever in the 2009-2013 period — although an uptick in the rate in 2014 raises questions about what it will take to contain costs on a sustainable basis. By also pursuing other concrete opportunities (e.g.,

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example. Why are they so satisfied? Facebook is a prime example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011.

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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. It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. Another area where these debates have some resonance is in policy —monetary policy, financial regulation and the like. Lars is famous for that. Absolutely.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Zerhouni, the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, Arab immigrants have made major contributions to American science and technology. Moreover, the immigration policies put forward by the Trump administration do not readily distinguish between Muslim and Arab identities — both appear to be targeted.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Either way, employers will know who did not agree to the testing and would be allowed to fine noncompliant employees, up to 30% for nonsmokers and 50% for smokers, but now those percentages could be multiplied by the cost of the full family policy, rather than the individual employee’s. What type of genetic tests are involved?

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9

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. But country-level and regional policy moved forward: Australia passed a carbon tax , South Korea approved carbon trading , and California just began its own trading experiment.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. respondents, a hypothetical trade policy in which the trading partner country gains 1,000 jobs and the U.S. loses one job received much less support than a policy in which the U.S. They found that among U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world. It would require new data, new cross-sector partnerships, changes to federal policy, and teams to help states implement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In an era when monetary policy seems to have been stretched to the limit, and fiscal policies are constrained by debt and reluctance to spend, businesses and governments around the world need to reignite the spark of trade to fuel economic growth. trade policy and where it’s heading. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S.

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