Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

In their efforts to accommodate growing urban populations and the accompanying challenges, governments can use modern information and communication technologies to create “Smart Cities” and smart buildings that improve the quality and interactivity of urban services while reducing costs and ensuring sustainability.

Content 8

Content Efficiency Energy Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

Cost 8

Cost System Management Franchising 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams. However great leaders and highly productive organizations always focus on team building as a key priority.

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. The second innovation was called blockchain, which was essentially the realization that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency and used for all kinds of other interorganizational cooperation.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.

P&L 15

P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Even operational efficiency was unaffected. TEKCO followed a traditional approach to an IT implementation.

Media 15

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. So Morgan Stanley’s wealth management business unit has been working for several years on a “next best action” system that FAs could use to make their advice both more efficient and more effective. The second aspect of the system is to provide operational alerts. Insight Center.

System 8

System Short-term Industry Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. It's just that kind of loss of daily osmotic information exchange and collaborative bonding that ought to concern 21st century employees and employers. Is there an upside?

Silverman 15

Silverman Real Estate Fashion Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. This ethos helps to continually open up the field of play at Rite-Solutions to new products, technologies, and directions. The Newport, R.I.-based For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie.

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

With something like the Riker’s Island social impact bond (which finances behavioral therapy for 16-to-18-year-old jail inmates in New York), the fact that Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a guarantee to that bond is very, very smart because it does two things. That actually helps charities become more efficient and more useful.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” But an intimate gathering with, say, 500 of your best friends isn’t feasible.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Skip Prichard

APRIL 7, 2024

And very important to me: he emphasizes the importance of not just adopting new technologies, but also valuing and empowering people within these digital spaces. It allows for a workflow that’s not just more flexible but more efficient too. Gesing equips leaders with actionable strategies to thrive in this new virtual terrain.

Bond 86

Bond Innovation Diversity Operations 86

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. utility sector. Seeing the writing on the wall, German utility E.On

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The raw wafer for an iPhone chip might have been processed in Texas before it was shipped to a factory in Taiwan to be diced into individual chips and tested, then wire bonded into a package before going to a parts distribution center, before finally making it to that assembly line in Zhengzhou, China. bound panels to Malaysia.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8