By 2018, 485,000,000 wearable computing devices will ship globally, including smart watches and smart clothing, according to ABI Research. MORE
Ask each member of your team to write you a letter, as if it were January 2018. If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag. MORE
SpaceX, taking a page from NASA’s playbook, just announced that it will fly tourists around the moon in 2018.). Project Apollo Archive/NASA. In January Google ended Project Titan, an initiative to blanket the earth in Wi-Fi with the help of solar-powered drones. It was the latest in a series of Google’s moonshot projects being closed. With the announcement, some in the media concluded that the Google moonshot was essentially dead. MORE
million new small business jobs” by 2018. There is no greater demonstration of the impact that businesses have on cities and regions than what has been occurring in the Midwestern Unites States. MORE
In response, the ABIM announced it would offer a new assessment option starting in January 2018, allowing doctors to be recertified through shorter, but more frequent, assessments. A debate has erupted within medicine over how to ensure that physicians maintain their clinical skills throughout their careers. The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has long required internists to pass Maintenance of Certification exams every 10 years to keep their board-certified status. MORE
Brexit, as the British referendum to exit the EU is widely called, has caused turmoil in politics and stocks and head-shaking among the UK’s partners. All of this, of course, comes on the heels of many overlapping crises afflicting Europe. MORE
Gartner predicts that by 2018, advanced NLG will be integrated into the majority of smart data discovery platforms and that 20% of business content will be generated by machines. Over the past few years, much has been made of the rise of big data. And yet research from TDWI states that at organizations where 50% of employees have access to business intelligence tools, only 20% of that group actually use them. Part of the problem is that systems are often hard to use. MORE
In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. No one doubts that the future belongs to the Internet of Things. MORE
Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that SET jobs will increase by 17% between 2008 and 2018, a growth rate nearly twice that of non-SET employment. Virginia Rometty at IBM. Marillyn Hewson at Lockheed Martin. Meg Whitman at HP. Ellen Kullman at DuPont. Marissa Mayer at Yahoo. MORE
Stringer’s website observes that “These costs are projected to rise over the next four years to $782 million by FY 2018, a figure that is greater than the FY 2015 budget for the Parks Department, Department of Aging, and New York Public Library combined.”. MORE
the re-election of Putin in 2018) and foreign policy over domestic reforms, such as fighting corruption, that could lead to an improved business environment. Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. From the conflict in Ukraine, to Russian meddling in U.S. and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. MORE
Mexico’s fast-approaching July 2018 general election, of which the populist leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the current frontrunner, is further making the case for incremental investments by multinationals corporations. YOY in 2017–2018. In this case, NAFTA negotiations remain undecided beyond Mexico’s 2018 elections, but the populist surge fails to materialize in the country and the center-right PAN narrowly defeats López Obrador. MORE
For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. MORE
” With Iger’s contract ending in 2018, the company said its board “will broaden the scope of its succession planning process to identify and evaluate a robust slate of candidates for consideration.” MORE
By 2018, declared the Department of Health and Human Services back in January, half of all Medicare payments will be tied to value. In 1998, Ben Lecomte became the first person to swim across the Atlantic. It took him 73 days to complete the 3,716-mile journey. MORE
It’s estimated that by 2018 the average employee will send and receive 140 messages per day. MORE
Pricey (and for now, socially awkward-looking) HUDs will likely be a sliver of the nearly half-billion units that will ship by 2018. Everybody is hopping on the wearables bandwagon. Since the publication of my HBR article on wearables , I’ve been asked a number of follow-up questions from executives, tech analysts, and most especially from entrepreneurs. Though the questions vary, they generally fall into three buckets. MORE
State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The draft law is expected to be published in October and includes sanctions for companies that don’t comply, including fines, exclusion from government tenders, and a ban on public subsidies. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7 MORE
The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. jennifer maravillas FOR HBR. In the early 1930s, cars in Europe were still a luxury for the rich. MORE
Candidate vaccines for Zika won’t begin large-scale trials until 2017 and, assuming they work safely, would not be available until 2018 or later. As Congress plays politics over emergency funds requested months ago , Zika is on the verge of spreading across the United States. MORE
By 2018, if today's college graduation rates hold as steady as they have for decades, the U.S. As Harvard Business Review has focused this month on U.S. competitiveness , one theme has been the challenge of training the next generation of leaders. MORE
The only numbers we have so far is that the companies expect $150 million in annual savings by 2018. Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn is big and bold — and likely to be consequential. Precisely how consequential and in what way is still a puzzle to observers. MORE
Business users sent and received on average 121 emails a day in 2014, and this is expected to grow to 140 emails a day by 2018. MORE
In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. MORE
Few law students even get the chance to buy the losing lottery ticket: the government estimates that 215,417 jobs for attorneys will open between 2008 and 2018 and in the same decade , there will be over 430,000 new legal graduates so only half will get to practice in their chosen field (at substantial opportunity and tuition costs). MORE
S&P viewed the 2017 premium increases as one-time pricing corrections and expected that 2018 increases would be much lower. The question of whether the United States will have functioning markets where individuals can buy health care insurance lies at the heart of the current debate about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). MORE
” The last time November 2 fell on a Friday was in 2012, and the next time is in 2018; essentially, the clock was off by about three years and eight minutes! HBR STAFF. Managers use measurements every day to guide their analyses, decisions, and planning. MORE
The chart below shows the resilience index (x-axis) paired with three-year average GDP growth (y-axis), while the size of the bubbles represent our projections for the size of these economies in 2018. The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). MORE
And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. MORE
By the end of 2018 it will be 50%. In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare diseases. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” ” Likewise, she determined that just 29% of her 56 outpatient doctor visits were useful. MORE
While we expect the first to occur by 2018, the Cuban government has already begun to slowly move toward unifying its two currencies. MORE
New York recently became the fifth state to pass paid parental leave. Obviously, this action has major implications for U.S. employers, since the United States is the only developed nation without paid maternity leave. MORE
By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with deep analytical skills according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute. The immense promise of big data to reveal new opportunities and deliver practical business results has so far been focused on technologies and models, and less on the human challenges of staffing roles and processes to take advantage of big data’s promise. MORE
Our IT leaders also served on Obama Administration committees that wrote requirements for patient-generated health data into 2018 federal health care IT regulations, thereby ensuring the concept’s longevity. MORE
Another 24% of companies plan to make the transition by 2018. Is the next statement true or false? Enterprise-wide analytics is REALLY difficult. It’s difficult to set up, difficult to maintain, and difficult to determine its impact on the business. What do you think? MORE
million new jobs to be created in the SME sector by 2018 will be created by woman-owned SMEs. Women''s entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point. MORE
But to win in the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential election, the opposition does not need to convince everyone who voted for Trump. To succeed, the opposition needs to treat each of these four types differently, with an eye to how they will affect Trump’s popularity by the 2018 and 2020 elections. MORE
According to the Consumer Electronics Association , drone shipments will increase from 250,000 units in 2014 to nearly a million by 2018. MORE
State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The draft law is expected to be published in October and includes sanctions for companies that don’t comply, including fines, exclusion from government tenders, and a ban on public subsidies. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7 MORE
mid-term elections in November 2018? Does the new Cuban leader , who takes over in February 2018, accelerate economic reforms? President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. The move made it possible to imagine an end to the U.S. embargo of Cuba (which remains firmly in place) and a consequently sharp improvement in Cuba’s economic conditions. MORE
A 2013 Towers Watson survey found that the percentage of employers expecting voluntary benefits to be very important to their rewards strategy will jump from 21% in 2013 to 48% in 2018. MORE
The new administration should not back away from current goals to, by the end of 2018, shift half of Medicare fee-for-service payments to alternative models that explicitly reward value. On January 20 Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. How exactly he and the Republican-controlled Congress will reshape U.S. MORE
In 2013, profit margins are projected to increase for the first time in many years and new patented products like TX Active and i.light are expected to account for 30% of total turnover by 2018. Companies in commoditizing industries tend to follow one of two strategies: either they try to find new services to offer around the product or they compete on price. The one certain outcome of these two strategies, of course, is to accelerate the commoditization process itself. MORE
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JANUARY 24, 2017
Ask each member of your team to write you a letter, as if it were January 2018. If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 15, 2015
Business users sent and received on average 121 emails a day in 2014, and this is expected to grow to 140 emails a day by 2018.
Strategy Driven
JULY 2, 2015
A 2013 Towers Watson survey found that the percentage of employers expecting voluntary benefits to be very important to their rewards strategy will jump from 21% in 2013 to 48% in 2018.
The Kini Group
AUGUST 8, 2016
Another 24% of companies plan to make the transition by 2018. Is the next statement true or false? Enterprise-wide analytics is REALLY difficult. It’s difficult to set up, difficult to maintain, and difficult to determine its impact on the business. What do you think?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 20, 2017
Mexico’s fast-approaching July 2018 general election, of which the populist leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the current frontrunner, is further making the case for incremental investments by multinationals corporations. YOY in 2017–2018. In this case, NAFTA negotiations remain undecided beyond Mexico’s 2018 elections, but the populist surge fails to materialize in the country and the center-right PAN narrowly defeats López Obrador.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 13, 2014
Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that SET jobs will increase by 17% between 2008 and 2018, a growth rate nearly twice that of non-SET employment. Virginia Rometty at IBM. Marillyn Hewson at Lockheed Martin. Meg Whitman at HP. Ellen Kullman at DuPont. Marissa Mayer at Yahoo.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
Stringer’s website observes that “These costs are projected to rise over the next four years to $782 million by FY 2018, a figure that is greater than the FY 2015 budget for the Parks Department, Department of Aging, and New York Public Library combined.”.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
million new jobs to be created in the SME sector by 2018 will be created by woman-owned SMEs. Women''s entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2017
By the end of 2018 it will be 50%. In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare diseases. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” ” Likewise, she determined that just 29% of her 56 outpatient doctor visits were useful.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2015
According to the Consumer Electronics Association , drone shipments will increase from 250,000 units in 2014 to nearly a million by 2018.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 15, 2016
The only numbers we have so far is that the companies expect $150 million in annual savings by 2018. Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn is big and bold — and likely to be consequential. Precisely how consequential and in what way is still a puzzle to observers.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2016
The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. jennifer maravillas FOR HBR. In the early 1930s, cars in Europe were still a luxury for the rich.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2016
In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. No one doubts that the future belongs to the Internet of Things.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 17, 2016
” The last time November 2 fell on a Friday was in 2012, and the next time is in 2018; essentially, the clock was off by about three years and eight minutes! HBR STAFF. Managers use measurements every day to guide their analyses, decisions, and planning.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2016
It’s estimated that by 2018 the average employee will send and receive 140 messages per day.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2017
For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier.
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The draft law is expected to be published in October and includes sanctions for companies that don’t comply, including fines, exclusion from government tenders, and a ban on public subsidies. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The draft law is expected to be published in October and includes sanctions for companies that don’t comply, including fines, exclusion from government tenders, and a ban on public subsidies. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
The new administration should not back away from current goals to, by the end of 2018, shift half of Medicare fee-for-service payments to alternative models that explicitly reward value. On January 20 Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. How exactly he and the Republican-controlled Congress will reshape U.S.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2017
In response, the ABIM announced it would offer a new assessment option starting in January 2018, allowing doctors to be recertified through shorter, but more frequent, assessments. A debate has erupted within medicine over how to ensure that physicians maintain their clinical skills throughout their careers. The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has long required internists to pass Maintenance of Certification exams every 10 years to keep their board-certified status.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 16, 2016
While we expect the first to occur by 2018, the Cuban government has already begun to slowly move toward unifying its two currencies.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 13, 2016
New York recently became the fifth state to pass paid parental leave. Obviously, this action has major implications for U.S. employers, since the United States is the only developed nation without paid maternity leave.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 18, 2016
Candidate vaccines for Zika won’t begin large-scale trials until 2017 and, assuming they work safely, would not be available until 2018 or later. As Congress plays politics over emergency funds requested months ago , Zika is on the verge of spreading across the United States.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 29, 2017
the re-election of Putin in 2018) and foreign policy over domestic reforms, such as fighting corruption, that could lead to an improved business environment. Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. From the conflict in Ukraine, to Russian meddling in U.S. and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 16, 2013
By 2018, 485,000,000 wearable computing devices will ship globally, including smart watches and smart clothing, according to ABI Research.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2017
SpaceX, taking a page from NASA’s playbook, just announced that it will fly tourists around the moon in 2018.). Project Apollo Archive/NASA. In January Google ended Project Titan, an initiative to blanket the earth in Wi-Fi with the help of solar-powered drones. It was the latest in a series of Google’s moonshot projects being closed. With the announcement, some in the media concluded that the Google moonshot was essentially dead.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
But to win in the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential election, the opposition does not need to convince everyone who voted for Trump. To succeed, the opposition needs to treat each of these four types differently, with an eye to how they will affect Trump’s popularity by the 2018 and 2020 elections.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2016
In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Our IT leaders also served on Obama Administration committees that wrote requirements for patient-generated health data into 2018 federal health care IT regulations, thereby ensuring the concept’s longevity.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 19, 2016
” With Iger’s contract ending in 2018, the company said its board “will broaden the scope of its succession planning process to identify and evaluate a robust slate of candidates for consideration.”
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
The chart below shows the resilience index (x-axis) paired with three-year average GDP growth (y-axis), while the size of the bubbles represent our projections for the size of these economies in 2018. The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 17, 2014
By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with deep analytical skills according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute. The immense promise of big data to reveal new opportunities and deliver practical business results has so far been focused on technologies and models, and less on the human challenges of staffing roles and processes to take advantage of big data’s promise.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
By 2018, declared the Department of Health and Human Services back in January, half of all Medicare payments will be tied to value. In 1998, Ben Lecomte became the first person to swim across the Atlantic. It took him 73 days to complete the 3,716-mile journey.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 23, 2013
Pricey (and for now, socially awkward-looking) HUDs will likely be a sliver of the nearly half-billion units that will ship by 2018. Everybody is hopping on the wearables bandwagon. Since the publication of my HBR article on wearables , I’ve been asked a number of follow-up questions from executives, tech analysts, and most especially from entrepreneurs. Though the questions vary, they generally fall into three buckets.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 16, 2016
And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 13, 2013
In 2013, profit margins are projected to increase for the first time in many years and new patented products like TX Active and i.light are expected to account for 30% of total turnover by 2018. Companies in commoditizing industries tend to follow one of two strategies: either they try to find new services to offer around the product or they compete on price. The one certain outcome of these two strategies, of course, is to accelerate the commoditization process itself.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 30, 2012
Few law students even get the chance to buy the losing lottery ticket: the government estimates that 215,417 jobs for attorneys will open between 2008 and 2018 and in the same decade , there will be over 430,000 new legal graduates so only half will get to practice in their chosen field (at substantial opportunity and tuition costs).
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2017
S&P viewed the 2017 premium increases as one-time pricing corrections and expected that 2018 increases would be much lower. The question of whether the United States will have functioning markets where individuals can buy health care insurance lies at the heart of the current debate about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 24, 2016
Gartner predicts that by 2018, advanced NLG will be integrated into the majority of smart data discovery platforms and that 20% of business content will be generated by machines. Over the past few years, much has been made of the rise of big data. And yet research from TDWI states that at organizations where 50% of employees have access to business intelligence tools, only 20% of that group actually use them. Part of the problem is that systems are often hard to use.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 5, 2016
Brexit, as the British referendum to exit the EU is widely called, has caused turmoil in politics and stocks and head-shaking among the UK’s partners. All of this, of course, comes on the heels of many overlapping crises afflicting Europe.
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