Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. corporations from 1985 to 2015. Despite the general trend across schools toward becoming more finance-oriented, there could have been considerable variation in what’s taught.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

I’d be interested, Palmisano replied, but only “if Bill took the company private.”. Bill Gates did not choose to take Microsoft private (it would have cost a lot ), and insider Satya Nadella became the company’s new CEO. Communication Finance Getting buy-in' Are today’s investors really that horrible? Short answer: no.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

The recent history of Uber reads like a Shakespearean tragedy, and there are plenty of opinions about where the company went wrong and what it needs to do going forward. All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S. But unlike many others, I’m not here to praise or bury Uber.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

ManpowerGroup found that 80% of companies lack a reliable picture of their total workforce. Consider the case of a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company. Powered by early blockbuster drug therapies, the company met its initial hyper-growth by hiring talent, not optimizing its total workforce.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Classic leadership lessons apply. To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

In our experience, most companies are already steeped in technology and learning fast about how it can transform their businesses. Without the proper framing and orchestration at the overall company level, the best initiatives will fail to get the attention and investment they need.

CEO 12

CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. About the Interviews I wanted to select a diverse group of CEOs from a range of companies that varied by size and industry. What benefits have you seen from having a more diverse company?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. Leadership roles and responsibilities.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. One was an “ indigenization ” program requiring companies such as Nestle, British American Tobacco, Anglo American Platininum, and Barclays, to hand majority stakes to black Zimbabweans. Years of economic mismanagement.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. Vanguard owns some 5% of most publicly-traded companies in the U.S., But that does mean indexed investors will remain passive if a company’s strategy could be strengthened or its results could be better. .”

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

With our colleagues at Bain & Company, we recently surveyed 980 U.S. physicians in eight specialties, 100 health system finance officers, as well as 100 health system procurement officers — the people in charge of buying supplies for hospitals. But that’s how physicians see it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

For two years, we conducted an activist campaign at Tejon Ranch, the largest private landowner in California and a publicly traded company. We earned a 13% return — not bad by industry standards — but we failed to change the company much. Index funds own large stakes in companies. The team was polite and respectful.

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CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Other companies including Lowe’s, Walmart, McKesson and JetBlue Airways have recently partnered with the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and Health Design Plus (HDP) to launch the Employers Centers of Excellence Network (ECEN) which helps employers identify quality providers and negotiate bundled payments.

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Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Back before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, MedStar’s leaders decided they needed a strategic plan to reimagine the company in 2020. CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. My point is, inside the walls of your company, there are superconsumers who are passionate and engaged. Superconsumers can exist in your company across all functions. So find them, ask questions, and let them help you.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

One day in December 2014, Sergey, the Russia general manager for a multinational consumer goods company, was up early in the morning, watching the ruble’s value slide by the minute. In a survey of 77 of my company Frontier Strategy Group’s global clients, 88.3% in anticipation of interest rate hikes by the U.S.

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Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Europe is at the top of your risk list for 2015. You look at Podemos in Spain, with elections coming up in 2015. The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And America’s willingness to weaponize finance has grown substantially as a consequence. The Front National in France.

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Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

” The head of strategy for a big IT company put his head in his hands. All I’d done was show him and the rest of the executive team a series of other companies’ ads. Unless companies consciously integrate gender into their cultures and communications, many of them end up unconsciously skewed toward male preferences.

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Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% At 20%, China’s share of global R&D expenditure in 2015 was well above Japan’s at 9% or Germany’s at 6% and second only to that of the U.S. Other than in a few sectors such as defense, India has no policies designed to aid domestic over foreign companies.

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape. Innovation and change.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. However, classifications were mostly clear.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Not Good at All Google Finally Discloses Its Diversity Record, and It’s Not Good PBS NewsHour Google released its global workforce numbers, revealing that 70% of its employees are men, a number that increases to 83% and 79% if you look only at tech jobs and leadership roles. Two percent of Google employees are black.

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Short-term Mass Marketing Long-term Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. But in April, just after U.S.

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

When I spoke to Glenn about his leadership style and what he learned as president and chief executive from 2000 to 2015, several things stood out. I have seen health systems in Japan, Singapore, Spain, New Zealand, and the UK that show how population-scale health care with these ingredients can be achieved. million people.

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Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Once upon a time, CEOs did not comment on governmental regulations or policies other than those that directly affected their industries or companies. but many lead global companies. In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina.

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CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

More than ever, it is the directors’ responsibility to determine when and how their company should engage in political activities. But do board members actually know how to provide proper oversight and help their companies navigate this perilous landscape? Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016.

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Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. The disparities in the perceived importance of these issues could affect how directors prioritize and choose to address risks to the company. We also found that industry matters.

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Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly. While the U.S.

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Energy Transportation Policies Politics 8