Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. Technology entrepreneurs should be at the table with established companies, elected officials, financiers, and consumers. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue. Citizen voices and votes can encourage action.

Transportation 8

Transportation Wireless Entrepreneur Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

First, develop a strategy for energy security — then stick to it. Clean energy technologies hold great promise for the future. But to reap the benefits, the public and private sectors need to work together and make a sustained commitment to testing and developing the most effective alternative fuel technologies.

Transportation 13

Transportation Energy Globalization Budgeting 13

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Clearly, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technologies are finding their way into most everything that we touch and use in everyday life, including consumer products, financial services and healthcare delivery. ” In October, Samsung Electronics unveiled Bixby 2.0,

Press Release 170

Press Release Automotive Innovation Technology 170

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Keeping the world at 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

HR Digest

JULY 1, 2022

Boomerang employees are often more committed and hardworking than fresh hires. The LinkedIn survey showed that the transition has been especially high in the field of technology, information and media; retail; hospitals and healthcare; transportation, logistics and storage; manufacturing; and financial services. .

Long-term 112

Long-term Transportation Policies Retail 112

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

or elsewhere , whether companies in America invest in the latest technology, and so on. Communication and transport costs forced most firms to sell relatively close to where they produced. They put time and resources into local schools and colleges, developed regional supply networks, and upgraded the local skills base.

Transportation 11

Transportation Short-term Influence Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Resistant forms continue to thrive, and increased travel makes the global threat very real. Redefine ROI.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” My partner David and I developed the idea for our company 10 years ago, and I took over as CEO several years ago. To answer that question, I decided to do a survey, asking other entrepreneurs how much they work, how they measured their own commitment to their company, and about their ability to take personal time out of the office.

Company 10

Company Entrepreneur Survey CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20 ) that "accountants would save the world." A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. Using Technology and Data for Social Impact. But I meant it. Why accounting?

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This time, nearly every country is entering the discussions with a legitimate commitment to cut carbon. And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago. Things are very different today. For example, the U.S.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Critics insist that this "path of least resistance" mechanism for saving the whales/the earth/indigenous tribes or supporting the fight against breast cancer/prostate cancer/muscular dystrophy better represents an impulsive twitch of a finger than thoughtful commitment. But it's time the so-called emerging economies stepped up.

Innovation 16

Innovation Health Care Globalization Media 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. To test the idea, hospital managers developed a special patient-safety card game that encouraged coworkers to work together more easily and reinforced their knowledge of core safety and patient care principles.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

It’s big news and a very good start, but the deal has a major flaw: the commitments will not keep the world from warming 1.5 For example, China committed to implement a carbon cap and trade system , Britain said it would phase out coal plants by 2025, and President Obama vetoed the Keystone pipeline. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

China’s leadership will ignite the capital economy, funding an aggressive growth program with major infrastructure investments to support urban development, including huge allotments for housing, schools, roads, and more. Funds will be committed to attract top faculty, build state-of-the-art facilities, and recruit the very best students.

Policies 8

Policies Class Health Care Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. I clicked three buttons, and my ride was there in 12 minutes.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Some governments—especially in low and middle-income countries—sign agreements as a means for commitment. Today, bilateral and regional agreements give developed countries a tool to support political and economic reforms in emerging markets. These governments see economic reform as a prerequisite for growth.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

” Immelt notes that success requires GE’s willingness to change on many levels—from recruiting, to customer management, to technology. Under Immelt, GE decide to make rather than buy , and develop the needed capability in-house. .” In order to get there, he plans to “evolve our business model accordingly.”

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

Cooper 16

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2017

At Sanford Health, one of the largest rural health-care-delivery systems, we’ve tackled this challenge by leveraging an array of technologies to provide high-value care to a population of around 2 million, dispersed across 300,000 square miles in the Dakotas. EMR platform.

Health Care 8

Health Care Technology Guidelines Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Fueling this dynamism, Africa is adopting technology at a furious pace: it will soon have double the number of smartphone connections than North America. With its equipment-supplier partners, SABMiller developed a standardized “brewery in a box” that it could quickly assemble. billion by 2050. Further Reading.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

the technology company established to build Arc, the digital platform created by the U.S. Projects using Arc input data across five categories: Energy, Water, Waste, Transportation and Human Experience. A “project” can represent a single standalone building, a group of buildings in a large development or portfolio, or an entire city.

Real Estate 170

Real Estate Benchmarking Arkes Construction 170

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. And will they potentially commit further crimes? Such an algorithm would essentially conclude that the judge is making a serious mistake in jailing so many youthful defendants (since none of the ones in its dataset go on to commit crimes). Insight Center.

Policies 8

Policies Tools Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Most of them focus on digitalization specifically and on communications technology, though some attention continues to be paid to transportation infrastructure (e.g., For more than 150 years now, new technologies have been touted as making the world one. Parag Khanna’s Connectography ).

Globalization 8

Globalization Offshoring Tacit Knowledge Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

One high profile example is Walmart’s commitment to source an additional $250 billion in products made, assembled, or grown in the United States. Advances in manufacturing technology. It also saves money because transportation costs on those U.S.-made Manufacturing is on the cusp of a robotics revolution.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Organizations have a strong sense of their own value and an unswerving commitment to high quality care but little appreciation of others’ worth in their local, regional, or national systems. But no country is delivering these transformational changes. This is the paradox of change: It requires continuity and consistency.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8