Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Point-of-sale (POS) intrusions : Attacks that capture payment data from POS systems. You don’t know who’s behind it.

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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.

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Attrition Talent Management Agility Innovation 98

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Over the years, there have been numerous efforts, ranging from the Bayh-Dole Act , of 1980, to numerous initiatives to revamp technology transfer offices within government agencies, but nothing really seemed able to speed new discoveries out of the labs and into the marketplace. This, of course, was not an entirely new idea.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

These beliefs about value and how to create it drive the strategies that leaders deploy, the people they hire (and their competencies), and most importantly, the measurement systems that they use to gauge performance and guide decision-making. We need to be more like Oracle. We need to be more like Microsoft.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In such a system, employers protect workers from many of the vagaries of market forces; they take a longer-term perspective on firm performance, and favor corporate strategies that necessitate a stable, well-trained, and loyal workforce. In the post–World War II era up to the late 1970s, employment systems in the U.S.

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Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B By almost all accounts, companies at the digital frontier such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are investing vast amounts in AI—somewhere between $20 billion and $30 billion alone in 2016. . $5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’d like to share what I learned while leading an SBM — to help other states as they navigate the health insurance landscape and, more broadly, to inform health-system leaders, employers, and policy makers about the challenges SBMs face and the solutions they’re developing. Technological challenges.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance.

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Cost Hedge Quality Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Take M-KOPA, a home solar system that comes in a kit containing a small solar panel, two LED lamps, an LED flashlight, and a mobile phone charger. After paying for a full year, the system is unlocked and the customer owns the product outright.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

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. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. companies can’t do business there.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 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 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

If that new job doesn’t pay as much, there should be a system of wage insurance in place so that he can still pay his bills.” ” —President Obama, 2016 State of the Union Address. 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

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In our case study on Central Park, we elaborate on ways she built and maintained her team’s momentum, and we discuss the Park’s current forty-nine team, decentralized zone management system.)

Company 9

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

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. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

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). As a result, the practice reduces funding to those social insurance systems.

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 11

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. TEO Ming Kian , Director at Temasek and Chairman at Vertex Holdings.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S. One technical solution to this problem are plug-and-play solar systems. We wanted to know how a new U.S.

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Technology Energy System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Of course, the retrenchment of global finance also reflects pressure on banks from regulators and shareholders to rebuild their capital and liquidity. As European banks retreat, China is leading something of a changing of the guard in global finance. The global banking system is changing, and advanced economies will need to adjust.

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Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

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. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 9

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. A year later, after demonetization, the same system is processing 76 million transactions per month.

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Banking Long-term Short-term System 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Both industrialized nations (including the UK, Singapore, and Australia) and developing states (such as China, Nigeria, and Chile) have instituted national real-time payment systems to match the speed of business. however, uses a system designed in the 1970s to track and process transactions between nearly any U.S. payment system.

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System Industry Report Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Reacting quickly, Google regained control of the Android system by restricting access to difficult-to-replicate services such as mapping and by shifting important application programming interfaces (APIs) to the proprietary Google Play Store. It was the digital payment system eBay pushed before it gave up and acquired PayPal.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. Even under optimum conditions, an instant sale is not possible for a complex, enterprise-based system. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Then, there is 50 Shades of Grey. And launch.

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Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

I participated in a cognitive technologies conference a few days after the November 8 election, and much of the talk at breaks (and some on the stage) was about the election results and the reasons behind them. Key aspects of the finance industry have already been automated to a substantial degree. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Compliance Finance Banking Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. VC investment; in 2016 it was under 8%. “Clearly all of this reflects some sober reevaluation of the VC role in cleantech finance,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, adding that “We’ve maybe asked too much of VC.”

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

However, it is imperative we question the confidence placed in the new generation of quantitative models, innovations which could, as William Dudley warned, “lead to excess and put the [financial] system at risk.” in November 2016. Two areas are of particular concern.

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Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It’s hard to overstate the significance — and complexity — of the H-1B visa system in the U.S. It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. Who gets H-1Bs?

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. But the system is rife with problems, adding cost through fees and delays, creating friction through redundant and onerous paperwork, and opening up opportunities for fraud and crime. Distributed Database. Transparency with Pseudonymity.

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. If that displaced 20% of the 250 million cars Americans own, consumers would save $150 billion, $3,000 for every car displaced, and 1 million jobs would disappear in the automotive related industries — manufacturing, insurance, finance, etc. There are 3.5

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8