Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

trillion in 2014 alone. For businesses, these open platforms create efficient global markets with a huge base of potential customers and built-in ways to reach them. But now digital technologies allow companies to globalize in a leaner and less capital-intensive way. Consider how global value chains are evolving.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. “With what we are paying them, we are getting their input and feedback as well,” said Belal Jahangir, director of global marketing and son (and heir apparent) of the CEO.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. At the storage and software company EMC Corp., Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure.

Venture Capitalist 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. ” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge.

Software 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. Overall marijuana sales in states where cannabis is legal could double in 2014 to hit $3 billion, according to our estimates, as Colorado and Washington begin selling cannabis to adults 21 and over. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

Industry 9

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

In 2014, Michael Callahan, then head of customer experience at Hulu, had a mystery on his hands. Measuring Marketing Insights. At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail.

Survey 8

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We’ve got the latest technology. Our human resources department takes care of that. Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology has prompted tremendous change in the advertising industry—change that would have been inconceivable even a decade ago. People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. Automation will take hold.

Advertising 8

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

This figure is likely to decline as genetic testing technology improves and more vendors get into the market. For instance, the commercially insured population suffered 158,895 heart attacks and had 126,710 diabetes-specific admissions in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available. per 1,000.

Insurance 8

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