The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 2, 2022

The study looked at countries across Western Europe between the late 1990s and 2016, and found that exposure to automation was linked with a rise in support for radical right-wing parties. Research from Bocconi University suggests that the rise in automation may be a contributing factor. “So, we can be optimistic in that sense.”

Restructuring 64

Restructuring Survey Politics Globalization 64

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Innovations. Opportunistic businesses of all varieties can relieve this tension with innovative new products, services, experiences or entire new business models.

Trends 50

Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

The approach promotes an inclusive work environment that considers the specific needs and skills of each employee – since employee diversity helps us get a better understanding of our customers, develop innovative solutions, and stay competitive in a global economy. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. PHOTOS: SAP.

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. In the U.S.

Absenteeism 105

Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

And so Harry’s has been growing 35% year-on-year between 2014 to 2016, three times faster than the industry average , commanding 9% of all online razor sales. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 , “As technology makes data-driven HR decision-making a possibility, 77 percent of executives now rate people analytics as a key priority, up slightly from last year. Quality Hires.

Attrition 98

Attrition Talent Management Agility Innovation 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Not many would associate innovation with large, service-oriented nonprofits with decades of history. 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.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation. Small Wins, Big Payoff.

Power 12

Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future. For deeper technologies, you can’t always innovate at a venture capital cadence, where you have to get big super fast.” The Silicon Valley Model.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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. The idea to do this study and connections with some of the CEOs came from a presentation I gave at the 2016 Billie Jean King Leadership initiative symposium.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. But in 2016 the exchanges will open to companies with 51 to 100 employees. These innovations include bundled payments and accountable care organizations.

Insurance 9

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Later, they would partner with VentureWell , a nonprofit that focuses on accelerating innovation. That spring Rithmio won the COZAD New Venture Competition , and on the strength of that was able to secure $650,000 in angel financing. As Tilton told me, “Innovation Corps changed my life.” The Future of I-Corps.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR. She quantified the growth she generated and included one of her innovations that generated much of that growth.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Typically ensconced in corporate databases, and tightly held in order to maintain competitive advantage, this data contains tremendous possible insights and avenues for policy innovation. Data collaboratives offer a way around this limitation. Public service design and delivery.

Company 9

Company Policies Media Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. We will continue to strive for improvements in 2016. Fostering innovation. For more about innov ation in health care delivery, see NEJM Catalyst , a new resource from NEJM Group. Financial challenges.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Multiple studies have documented that firms have increasingly pushed the risk of business downturns (short-term or long-term) onto workers through labor-market innovations such as dynamic, variable schedules ; increased services outsourcing ; and the rise of contract work.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Proposal Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

All things considered (interests, age, health, finances), early 2016 seemed like the right time. I went from junior associate to partner to managing partner and eventually to senior partner. But several years ago, I started thinking about what comes next, and when next should come.

Career 8

Career Balanced Scorecard Consultative Learning-by-Doing 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. The HR Digest: Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about the Chamber’s T3 Innovation Network?

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? Consider Pokemon Go, the viral sensation of Summer 2016 and the most popular smartphone game in history. But the following stories suggest further exploration is warranted.

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

A 2016 analysis of more than 20,000 firms in 91 countries found that companies with more female executives were more profitable. In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

And in Tennessee, we reduced behavioral-health-related readmissions for our Memphis population from 40% in 2016 to 13% in 2017 and 2018. As a result of our collaborative behavioral-health model, over 75% of patients who saw CareMore’s behavioral health team in Iowa in 2017 also saw our primary care team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In March of 2016 we expanded the refund program system-wide to include all patients and all forms of patient individual financial responsibility (copayment, coinsurance, and deductible). Innovating for Value in Health Care. We move pretty quickly on these. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. ’ It’s a stupid idea.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

Diversity 10

Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One is profits — cryptocurrency investors made some massive returns in 2016, with cryptocurrencies from Blockchain startups Monero and NEM both seeing 2,000% increases in value. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. 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.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Nothing prevents Obama or his successor from starting a new initiative on January 1, 2016. Encourage financial entrepreneurship and innovation. Entrepreneurship in financial services has been given a bad rap as one contributor to the economic crisis, but we desperately need innovative financing models for start-ups.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15