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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. Mary Bilbrey, CHRO at JLL (NYSE:JLL) : Bilbrey leads a team of more than 90,000 professionals that deliver thought partnership, problem-solving, and tactical support to help drive JLL’s business goals and priorities. Affiliates.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

While customer satisfaction has been promoted as the goal of many businesses, it is customer impression that a business must aim for. You must be able to adapt to the ever-changing market and create new products and services based on consumers’ demands and finances. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2015

And neither negotiation partner understands the values these items represent to the other: a house in the country might represent a lifetime goal to one person, and just a place to live to another; a $1,000,000 settlement might illustrate payback for a lost, hard-won reputation to one person, and extortion to another. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2015

Whether it is listening, offering words of encouragement, or providing advice on how to start or grow a business, women can serve as mentors to guide other women to fulfill their own goals and shoot to the top. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Each quarter, family members should define one to five key objectives and goals to accomplish. HAVING ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ REGARDING PERSONAL VS. BUSINESS FINANCES. Any time an objective or goal is reached, time should be taken to acknowledge and celebrate that accomplishment before moving on to the next.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. 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. Andy Roberts/Getty Images. firms, and put the brakes on diversification.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated? Create one integrated workforce strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

And how can you ensure your budget will help you meet your strategic goals? This advice, adapted from the book Finance Basics , will help you better understand how to create a useful budget. First, list three to five goals that you hope to achieve during the period for which you are budgeting. Here’s how to begin.

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Budgeting Finance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

The abridged version is that Palmisano and then-CFO Mark Loughridge came up with what they called the “investor model” or the “road map” — a strategic plan complete with multi-year goals for investment, revenue growth, and earnings growth that they asked investors to judge them by. Communication Finance Getting buy-in'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Heading into 2015, a number of trends are apparent in the accelerator space. of the companies raised a significant round of financing within a year of graduating from a program, with an average raise of $1.5 Entrepreneurial finance Entrepreneurial management' First and foremost is the emergence of many new programs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The goal is create a common platform, “an open ecosystem for the open road,” the alliance website proclaims. With a similar goal, the U.S. Successful coalition-building combines a common goal with something for everybody. This model produced a big success in Miami. infrastructure problems.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. While the goal is ambitious, there are many things managers can do to evolve their conventional organization into a digital one while ensuring that employees are keeping pace. What are the organization’s goals? Why does it need digital transformation to achieve them?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Companies that can zero-in on the impact they want to see and focus on curating the right datasets mapping to those goals have the best opportunity for generating really impactful results from AI. In 2015, Boeing launched the Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop AI technology for airlines.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call. Habitat has thereby transformed the nature and scale of its impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. Laura Schneider for HBR. The failures continue.

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Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Financial challenges. What’s next?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

Ramit Sethi – the bestselling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich – developed his knowledge of personal finance the hard way, through his personal experience of winning a college scholarship and then almost immediately losing half in the stock market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

According to a 2015 Healthline survey , 44% of people say that they are stressed during the holidays, with more than 18% reporting that they’re “very stressed.” But preventing it all together should be the real goal. .” But, for others, it can be the loneliest and most stressful time of the year.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Similarly, in 2015 Techstars committed to doubling the representation of women and minorities in their programs within four years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Asking poor people to think about their finances impairs their cognitive performance, while the rich show no change. Simply holding money or having cash as a screen saver can lead people to donate less to orphanages and focus more on their goals. For instance, employers shouldered more than $27 billion in 2015 for opiate misuse alone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

For example, investment advice companies providing “robo-advice” to their customers have often attempted to get human advisors to shift their focus to “behavioral finance,” or providing advice and “nudges” to encourage wise decisions and actions in investing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The goal: Help patients clarify and document their care preferences, communicate those preferences to providers, and then oversee their preferred mix of medical and nonmedical care, ensuring they receive no more and no less than they want. PTAC will decide whether to recommend implementation to the secretary of the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2015

Roughly half report that the two aspects of employee performance most negatively affected by personal finances are stress and the ability to focus on work (50% and 47%, respectively). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Dan Macklin is a co-founder and vice president at SoFi. About SoFi.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

The hardest part is connecting long-term goals to near-term actions — especially when those new actions directly threaten the way you make money right now. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

There’s another bias at play here, too: A 2015 paper in Organization Science, summarized in this HBR article , suggests that people overestimate the amount of conflict that actually exists on diverse teams. Diversity Can Increase Conflict, but Not as Much as You Think.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. In a 2015 report on the Millennial traveler, “free Internet access” was the top-ranked desired amenity. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There is reason to worry that the reward system in our field, particularly in the publication process, is misaligned with the goals of good science. Similarly, it is unclear why “impact” is an apt measure if the goal of research is to answer questions. The questions of good for what and good for whom are worth revisiting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. But these passive measures are not the outcomes that really matter to patients such as their ability to return to work and play and whether the surgery achieved the patient’s goal.

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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. We have pushed the Russians to the point that Putin believes we’re trying to undermine him personally and that our goal is regime change. The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list.

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Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S. Further, U.S. But the U.S.

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Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. Its primary goal is to help children graduate college. PFK has utilized health IT to achieve its goals, customizing its EMR to meet the needs of its care coordinators.

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Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

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. Two, policy goals do not always translate into desirable outcomes at the ground level. in 2000 to 2.0%

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