Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Pick a small project and a “low hanging fruit” vendor. Rather than going all in, some companies begin by picking a small project that could benefit from cognitive technology, and use a smaller, less transformative toolset to attack it. Some of Cognitive Scale’s customers, like M.D. Go big with Watson.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

Standing before a brown swathe of land cut up into rectangular ditches for a World Bank-funded project just outside Liberia's capital city of Monrovia, George Howard is a beneficiary of one such innovation. The goal is "to develop sustainable banking products which are more accessible for qualified candidates and women in general."

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

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. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

This erosion in the role of the manager has not gone unnoticed. As part of a recent research project into how top executives view training and development programs, executives overwhelmingly said the most urgent problem they face is igniting their managers to coach employees. Seek formal training.

Management 8

Management Mentor Content Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. But if you go to the operational side of the institution, they feel investing capital is the business of their money managers, so they in turn pass the buck or avoid the decision entirely.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Or a healthcare data offering evaluating physicians’ perceptions on a new drug may be useful not only to brand managers at pharmaceutical companies, but also to portfolio managers at asset management firms seeking to find promising investment opportunities. Frame up realistic aspirations for monetization.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers. ” What else needs to change?

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago. Pilot projects show that a single improved highway ramp can save lives and save IAG approximately $600,000 (AUD) per year.

Insurance 10

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. The intention in creating a culture of candor and feedback is to help someone else develop and be more effective or to help a conversation, decision, or group be more productive. This is not about venting or getting something off our chest.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community. Another example would be the Calvert Foundation’s Women Investing in Women Initiative , which allows individual investors to make loans to women in developing markets to access clean energy.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. To make the exercise feasible and affordable, they turned to Columbia University, which developed a new algorithm for fast carbon footprinting. Company Stories. on to 2013.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10