Harvard, for one, has pledged to double the number of women in case studies by 2019. Last August the White House hosted an event with a lengthy title: “ Business School Deans and the Business Community on Expanding Opportunities for Women in Business.” MORE

By 2019 the self-employed will account for 40 percent of all American workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Are you one of over 40 million self-employed in the U.S.--31 31 percent of the labor force--who form an increasingly important part of the economy? MORE

corporate CEOs, predicts employer health costs will increase 166 percent by 2019, resulting in a cost burden of $28,530 per employee – three-times the 2009 employee cost of $10,743. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Lucas D. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. MORE

in 2014, to over $6 billion, and is set to reach over $11 billion by 2019. My children are now old enough to go downstairs and turn on the TV by themselves. It’s an important moment in their lives — and the lives of their parents. MORE

Such costs are expected to quadruple again by 2019, to in excess of $2 trillion. Accurately measuring enterprise value (EV) has never been more important or challenging. Even more so because firms are confronted by growing volumes of data, and the stakes implied in misinterpreting the value of that data have risen to new heights. Data is no longer the domain of tech companies or IT departments — it is fast becoming a centerpiece of corporate value creation more generally. MORE

The implication is that, come what may between Britain and the EU by March 2019, the deadline by which Brexit has to be accomplished one way or another, the EU and the UK are natural trading partners. Any company with substantial exposure to Brexit that hasn’t yet devised contingency plans to deal with a range of outcomes, including very bad ones, is about as far behind the curve as Britain’s current government seems to be right now. MORE

The stakes are high in the mobile wallet market, projected to be over $140 billion by 2019. Most recently, Samsung has announced that it will roll out a payment system called Samsung Pay later this year and has already begun beta-testing it in Korea. MORE

The new measures should be in place by 2019. Best of all, putting this off to 2019 makes it possible to quietly shelve the report if bankers regain some of their respectability and their sector recovers its bounce. Maybe we would do better if we stopped thinking about making banks do what they currently do a bit better and started imagining what kind of financial system will best meet consumer needs in 2019. MORE

These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2019: Houston Intercontinental Airport, 50th. Anniversaries are important milestones. Organizations reflect on their heritage and accomplishments. In doing so, they build and widen stakeholder bases, enabling organizations to grow for the future. MORE

Projects started after 2019 would be of little help in hitting the portfolio target revenue in 2022, because they simply do not have the time needed to begin delivering results. Many executives are fond of promising to deliver growth, but far fewer realize those ambitions. This is because many fundamentally mismanage the growth gap, which is the difference between their growth goals and what their base businesses can deliver. MORE

trillion in 2019, up from $1.6 Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. In fact, global spending on media is expected to reach $2.1 trillion in 2014. But is all that money well spent? And more fundamentally, does marketing actually work? Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. MORE

By 2019 our annual interest rate balloons to $806 Billion per year! - Orrin Woodward Leadership Team Welcome to the leadership blog of the 2010 International Association of Business Top 10 Leadership Guru Orrin Woodward. MORE

It’s important to get familiar and incorporate appropriate aspects into your policies and procedures, and keep your eye out for a revised standard in 2019. On Friday, a major cyber attack hit health systems around the world. In Britain, where the attack affected hospital IT systems, doctors were unable to access patient records. Ambulances were diverted and emergency care delayed. MORE

Ray Kurzweil has predicted that the computing power of a $4,000 computer will surpass that of a human brain in 2019 (20 quadrillion calculations per second). MORE

billion in 2019. The debate over encryption—and decryption—has heated up as U.S. Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein have introduced a bipartisan bill that would require all tech companies to decrypt customer data at a court’s request. The sponsors argue that, in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attack and the ensuing FBI investigation into the shooter’s Apple iPhone, authorities “ need to know when terrorists are plotting to kill Americans.” MORE

Payments under Medicare’s new merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) as well as new incentives for professionals participating in alternative payment models will go into effect starting in 2019. MORE