Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

corporations from 1985 to 2015. In our sample, about 20% of CEOs in the 1980s had an MBA, and throughout the 1980s and the 1990s the percentage steadily increased to 33%, where it remained during the 2000s. To test our argument, we collected data on 2,031 CEOs who ran 640 large U.S.

Influence 12

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

To examine how corporations handle allegations of CEO misbehavior, we conducted an extensive review of news media between 2000 and 2015. Among the companies in our sample, share prices declined by a market-adjusted 3.1% (1.1% Of the 38 companies in our sample. However, shareholder reactions are not uniformly negative.

CEO 8

CEO Sample Reputation Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

drop in stock price) from the spillover effects of Nvidia’s breach, controlling for overall market effects. In fact, the spillover effects across our sample evidenced a drop in stock price that averaged more than $8 million in losses for rival firms where no such data breach occurred.

Policies 10

Policies Company Sample Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Mintel’s 2015 American Lifestyles report projects that vacations, dining out, and other experiential categories will drive the growth in total consumer spending. Customers no longer want anything that is mass-marketed. But the shift is not happening solely with younger shoppers. Personalization is expected.

Retail 9

Retail Discount Reis Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

companies are discovering the appeal and opportunity of talent in emerging markets. What does it take for emerging-market female talent to break into the executive ranks of a U.S.-based More and more U.S. based multinational company? based multinational company? “I do put on my cowboy hat at headquarters,” she says.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Emotional Intelligence Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Shareholder activism is on the rise in American financial markets. We found over 1,500 13D filings for 1,090 firms in our sample. We found that firms in our sample led by male CEOs were targeted by an activist 6% of the time during the study period, versus 9.4% when the CEO was female.

CEO 8

CEO Sample Influence Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Increasingly, tax preparation is being automated, and even auditing is going the way of algorithmic review and big data “sweeps” instead of sampling. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum.

Drucker 8

Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

The most recent study, conducted in October 2015, surveyed 933 U.S. adults sampled at random from a consumer research panel. Similarly, the on-demand market includes nearly the same incidence of “Hesitators” as in the general population, which can only occur if the platforms are accessible. since 1999.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2016

The worldwide cybersecurity market has been estimated at $77 billion in 2015 and will be $170 billion by 2020. Cybersecurity has become one of the CEO’s biggest worries, according to several surveys. Companies are investing billions in protecting their systems and training their employees.

Engineering 8

Engineering Software Learning-by-Doing System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

from March 2015 to April 2016. Our sample of tweets was comprehensive, including complaints, questions, and comments. Without providing a reason for the survey, we asked them to participate in a common market-research exercise called conjoint analysis to see if their customer service experiences affected how they valued the brands.

Wireless 11

Wireless Airlines Brand Loyalty 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In response to our survey in late 2015, they told us that on economic matters, uncertainty abounds. If their projections turn out to be right, we should get ready for a bumpy road ahead, with market volatility and negative surprises. boards made up 48% of the sample) responded to the survey.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

Different surveys show that in 2014, 36% of global employers reported talent shortages , the highest percentage since 2007, and in a more recent 2015 survey, 73% of CEOs reported being concerned about the availability of key skills. Our sample included CEOs and heads of HR and recruiting, employer branding, and marketing, in 18 countries.

Brand 8

Brand CEO Reputation Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

” These customer-praising marketing messages are part of a broader trend in “corporate societal marketing,” which aim to emphasize companies’ social efforts to consumers. We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults.

Ethics 9

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Among the largest 250 companies in the world, 92% produced a CSR report in 2015, informing shareholders and the public about the firm’s activities. However, one scenario said that the CEO only decided to commit after market research confirmed that the donation would be profitable for the firm. Taira Kurihara/Getty Images.

Incentives 8

Incentives Motivation Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

We spoke with Mike Moorman, a senior leader in ZS Associates'' B2B sales and marketing practice and a leading authority on sales management, about how inside sales (which refers to sales positions done remotely from headquarters, without face-to-face meetings with clients) is transforming the way that B2B companies interact with their customers.

B2B 8

B2B Power Market Segmentation Customer Intimacy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

I see Amazon’s price strategy with Whole Foods, fueled by constant testing and experimentation, to evolve in three steps: changing price perception, growing the market for healthy foods, and then applying insights to other offline retail sectors and services. Growing the market for healthy foods. Changing price perception.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

For example, in 2015, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh launched a five-year partnership with the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to offer free salary negotiation workshops to women in the city of Boston. It has an appealing logic. If we can get women to negotiate more like men, then the gap will shrink.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Long-term Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

In 2015 we started to engage those clinical departments whose providers saw patients with conditions requiring frequent follow-up visits and infrequent physical exams, and who lived in Massachusetts but had difficulty coming into the office. Virtual Visits: Improving Access and Population Health in Chronic Disease Management.

Health Care 8

Health Care Consultative Video Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Theoretically, marketers could take advantage of this information glut to withhold facts and figures they’d prefer we didn’t see. But how do consumers react when marketers withhold information that would be relevant to their decisions? We suspected that consumers would be deaf to marketers’ silence.

Information 8

Information Productivity Products Game Theory 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

In September 2015 the Environmental Protection Agency found that many Volkswagen cars sold in the United States were equipped with software that could falsely improve the performance of diesel engines on emissions tests. Measuring Marketing Insights. This cheating was subsequently acknowledged by the car maker. Insight Center.

Crisis 10

Crisis Brand Analysis Media 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

A specialist background to lead innovation is worth a 4% better shareholder return every year for 20 years, compared to other pharma CEOs in our sample. We used the measure to calculate the impact the CEOs in our sample had, during their tenure, on their companies’ average annual performance over the twenty-year period of our study.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

When it comes to choosing media to support a new product launch, consider the target market. Meerkat, which was the darling of SXSW 2015, allows people to experience anything virtually through live video streaming on their smartphones. Marketing' Seniors, Boomers and GenXers still like to curl up with a magazine.

Media 8

Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made progress on a Zika test but needs more Zika blood samples to refine the technology. A doorstep diagnostic that showed promising results as early as October 2014 was not authorized by the FDA until January 2015 — and it was never used in the field.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Sample Incentives Development 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Moreover, Twitter is used by virtually all big Western companies either for marketing or to respond to customers—and sometimes both. Our sample population is based on companies which are listed on the NASDAQ, NYSE or FTSE 100 and have at least one active twitter account. How do you measure empathy on social media?

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

” “Yes, but turnover has been flat for the past few months, and we seem to be losing market share to Tikka House and to western competitors like KFC. Our brand, our marketing, our genesis —eggs. “Actually, we asked him to do a small, unofficial market test on Friday. That’s fine.

Case Study 8

Case Study Survey Course Class 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Same-sex couples throughout the country can now get legally married after the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. ” One interpretation of the literature’s near-universal prior finding of a gay male earnings penalty was that it was a consequence of labor market discrimination against gay men.

Education 8

Education Document Survey Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

I help the University of Utah hospital system manage its drug budgets and medication use policies, and in 2015 I got sticker shock. If they brought a new therapy to life, they enjoyed patent protection to effectively monopolize the market. By law, the first generic company to market a drug gets an exclusivity period of 180 days.

System 13

System Pharmaceuticals Company Sample 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Compounding both problems, since presidential elections are a relatively rare event, our historical data is limited; in other words, the sample size is relatively small and outdated. The small-sample-size problem crops up in other places, too. that wants to expand to the German market.

Politics 11

Politics Trends How To Sample 11