Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We also found that a focus on innovation tends to go hand in hand with longer-term time horizons.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Most business owners think of diversity in the workplace in terms of the compliance regulations imposed by the federal government. In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. Defining Diversity and Its Importance in the Workplace.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Too much money is spent on attention-grabbing activities that are straightforward to do, like hiring new people, procuring new technologies, and buying more facilities. This includes technology and people, as well as tangible, intangible, and financial assets. ” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015.

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. They embrace technology, rather than ideas and concepts. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Every size of business needs training. Workplace literacy. Understand and celebrate diversity.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

A 24-month moving average was used to eliminate short-term fluctuations in the data.) days of vacation in 2015. In 2015 the unemployment rate was 5.3% (it was 9.7% in 1982), and yet 2015 had one of the lowest averages of time off taken in the past 30 years: 16.2 days) in 2000, but they took only 16.2

Stress 8

Stress ROI Short-term Article 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Platform Adoption Identify and implement an appropriate technology solution to support the identification, sourcing, and management of independent labor. Testing and Learning Identify—and actively communicate and learn from—short-term wins.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. R&D spending falls into the long-term bucket. primary season.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activists launched 159 campaigns in 2015 focused on shareholder value maximization, nearly double the 88 that were launched the year before. Activist investors who expect to raise returns by influencing strategic decisions are having a meaningful impact on many industries from consumer-packaged goods to aerospace and defense.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. The technology and business model Ming Zeng, the chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, describes in Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals About the Future of Strategy.

Business Model 235

Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 235

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Investing in new technology can reduce excess inventory and handling, and cut down on the amount of perishables that ultimately go to waste. too short, long, big, small or uneven in shape, too red or not red enough, and so on). Partner with farmers in the supply chain.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Long-term thinking with short-term flexibility. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

From a practical perspective, removing the guidance changed nothing in terms of employer responsibilities — the law is still the law. For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015. weeks of earnings.

Document 13

Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. They have to integrate various perspectives and not give algorithms short shrift for lack of understanding them. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Can the elephant dance again?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

million apps as of July 2015. Overall, over 20,000 app developers and companies will have made over $100,000 in revenues — or $8,333 per month — from their apps in 2015. billion — will have been generated by publishers outside the Top 100 ranked apps in 2015. In the digital app store, the situation is similar.

Development 8

Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. We examined how each initiative impacted a company’s value through changes in its stock price, which we used as a proxy for determining the short-term costs of self-disruption.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). °C (1.8°F) °C (2.7°F)

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. This worked, because both crises were short-lived (lasting approximately 1-1.5 years) and were followed by rapid recoveries.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

And despite their relatively short existences, digital platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Snapchat are wreaking havoc on traditional businesses. It recently rolled out a short-term car rental product called Express Driv, through which Lyft drivers can rent GM cars. Build it yourself.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Consider the medical technology company Theranos, founded by Elizabeth Holmes, which seems to be reaching the end of an epic flameout. In fact, Holmes is set to be played by Jennifer Lawrence in a film written and directed by Adam McKay of The Big Short.). It’s time to grapple with the dark side of story.

Storytelling 8

Storytelling Open-book Technology Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. What wage insurance does. My research has documented how costly job loss is, including for many experienced workers.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation. billion in 2015 for Alstom’s business of making coal-fired turbines for power plants.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How does your company score?

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. They also said they were looking for growth and development at work , not simply short-term goals and personal financial gain.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Incubator Innovation Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Like leading the way in cup technology with the first U.S. In one study, participants viewed a short 40-second Starbucks commercial that either praised a customer for making an ethical purchase (it used phrasing such as: “Everything we do, you do. Everything we do, you do. hot cups made with 10% post-consumer recycled fiber.

Ethics 9

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. Without its own currency, Zimbabwe relies on USD for over 90% of transactions , but the collapse in exports means money is in short supply.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

On September 29, 2015, Techdirt posted “ You Can Now Turn Off Ads On Techdirt ,” explaining all the reasons why they were granting readers the power to not see ads. According to PageFair and Adobe’s 2015 Global Adblocking Report , “there are now 198 million active adblock users around the world.”

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The penalty for falling short isn’t insignificant. of their Medicare reimbursements in Fiscal Year 2015 if they don’t show simultaneous improvements in both process of care measures and patient experience. Hospitals risk losing 1.5% It includes measures such as the extent of communication with caregivers (i.e.,

Survey 8

Survey Health Care Process Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. ” Good means directors who exercise independent oversight and who are deeply engaged in the company’s long-term strategy. The board, in short, Gupta told us, “should think like an activist.” Is the cost structure too high?

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

In fact, even if we don’t like to describe AI learning in terms of curiosity, it is clear that AI is increasingly a substitute for tasks that once required a great deal of human curiosity. But since 2015 something new has happened: Computers can beat us on equal grounds, without any game state information, thanks to deep learning.

Learning-by-Doing 10

Learning-by-Doing Video Short-term Process 10