Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. Here are eight to note for 2016. ” 2016 will bring a host of creative bots that will supercharge our productivity, keep us company, and help us track what others are doing. Expect to hear more about “glitches” in 2016.

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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. ” The Power of Additive Contribution. This makes all members of the team think more deeply and arrive at better decisions. Small Wins, Big Payoff.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2016

Beginning in 1908, at the urging of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Hill began an intensive study of the traits that produce personal greatness in any field, from finance and science to art and politics. You just finished reading The Power of a Definite Aim ! Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets.

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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. In 2016, 50% of the Executive Medical Directors group were women and 29% of the Health Plan Organization’s C-Suite were women.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Yet, in the first quarter of 2016 the company sold only $17 million of Entresto in the U.S. It has been one of the most powerful and trusted brands in that market and held a commanding 63% market share. The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S. Maggi’s sales accounted for quarter of Nestlé’s $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S. ” Meanwhile, the company recruited non-scientist talent from finance, consulting, tech, academia, and political campaigns and inserted them into drug-development roles.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” While 6% of the wine sold at Systembolaget in 2011 was organic, by 2016 it was over 20%. What changed?

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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. Function as Administrative Officer, well beyond Administrative Assistant job description.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

A 2016 study estimated that there are more than 53,300 professional coaches worldwide, and the British paper The Independent pegged the number of management consultants at 500,000. .” How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. Of course, competition for these plum positions is growing. Do a skills analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

He flew to New York to attend the Wearable Tech Expo and asked questions about who bought wearables, how the sales cycle worked, and what technical specifications he would need to achieve with regard to power consumption, accuracy, and robustness. Each insight led to a better product. The Future of I-Corps.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This makes ownership a powerful concept for those seeking to galvanize a company around sustainability. This served as a basis for conceiving a new goal of sustainable transitions f inanced worth €35 billion; by 2016, the company was had already hit €34.3 billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb harness the power of the internet to offer a frictionless marketplace that powerfully matches supply and demand so as to make whole new sets of assets available to customers. dave wheeler FOR HBR. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). Payments for the vehicles were then deducted from pay, leaving little in compensation for the workers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Don’t: Discount the power of making small changes to your routine and environment. During the latter part of 2016 and much of 2017, James, a music lover, helped plan and raise funds for the festival. Finances were a consideration. Seek meaning by making an effort to meet people who benefit from your work.

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Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 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. In 2017, they may open up to still larger businesses and to state and local governments.

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Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

It’s nonsensical to blame people for “poor choices” or a lack of financial literacy when their volatile economic circumstances would challenge the skills of a finance MBA. The Federal Reserve found that in 2016, 44% of American households didn’t have $400 in emergency savings.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

But during the last four years, a powerful change has been taking place. 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.

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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. Fraternity and sorority membership conveys a powerful group identity, much like political or religious affiliation, and consequently can create a strong sense of similarity (or dissimilarity) with others.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. These changes may provide a powerful incentive for corporate organizations to forge longer-term commitments with their workers.

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Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. They Communicate Powerful Narratives About the Future.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade. This digital identity system powers a low-paperwork society using digital signatures.

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Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In fact, Bloomberg reported that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation. The wealthy can now install large high-power solar energy systems that produce enough energy to meet their needs for an entire year. solar in 2015.

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Technology Energy System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. When Prime Minister Modi assumed power in 2014, he put digital transformation at the center of his plans.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In 2016 the Scottish National Health Service (NHS Scotland) piloted an approach to value improvement that took both cost and quality into account and turned the management of value into the basic task of the point-of-care manager. Value ceased to be a side initiative or something driven solely by top-level finance and executive leaders.

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Cost Management Health Care System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

The elegance of entrepreneurship is that, when it works, success breeds success, and so a powerful way of knowing if a program is successful, is to remove the props and see if it stands on its own two feet. Nothing prevents Obama or his successor from starting a new initiative on January 1, 2016.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Our analysis suggests that, so far, the results have been mixed. ” But what’s the effect?

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

billion in 2016), and Mobileye (the software and chip provider for autonomous vehicles acquired by Intel for $15.3 Two coders manually assessed if a startup’s profiles did or did not articulate a vision to fundamentally change its industry, disrupt the industry’s existing power structures, or alter the way the industry operates.

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Uncertainty Software Sample Participative 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

If you are first-to-market, but the competition has more resources, stronger marketing power, superior distribution, or sales infrastructure, your primary advantage is time — you got to the market first — so use your 15 minutes of fame well. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

.” His concern was that automation of the finance industry would hollow out jobs in that field in the same way that robotics and other technologies have reduced manufacturing employment. Key aspects of the finance industry have already been automated to a substantial degree. According to data from research firm Coalition Ltd.,

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