Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Time Management: As a solo entrepreneur, I find myself toggling between prospecting for new business, meeting with clients, administrative responsibilities, networking, planning, strategizing, and, oh, I almost forgot…actually doing the work! It’s how you achieve those goals that matters most in terms of time, expense and energy.

Press Release 157

Press Release Discount PR Long-term 157

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

This population boom will bring both challenges and opportunities, which is why America’s Top 25 Future-Ready Cities are focusing on using technologies and data to enhance their economic development and sustainability, and to provide a higher quality of life for their citizens.

Technology 8

Technology Content Constraint Project 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better. Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM.

Planning 61

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 61

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. In my view, management now has no choice but to teach values.

Waterman 54

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 54

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

This ideology, Fukuyama goes on: could not begin with a denunciation of capitalism as such, as if old-fashioned socialism were still a viable alternative. They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere."

Consultative 14

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. ” In a competitive energy market, the Connected Home unit has now become a major differentiator and profit driver for the parent company, Centrica.

P&L 11

P&L Agility Fashion Media 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Amazon has only a handful of brick-and-mortar stores, Uber doesn’t manage a fleet of cars, and Ebay doesn’t manage a supply chain. And equipment must be maintained in a world that is becoming virtual and augmented by technology (VR and AR). For example, Health Technology had an average multiple of 5.1,

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. Trump Shocked the World.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. Your boss wants you to be: Relentlessly focused on making your numbers and completing projects or initiatives in a timely, responsible fashion.

Health Care 13

Health Care Short-term Report Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. Sustainability Talent management' Leaders in this area, by contrast, do a few things differently.

Metrics 8

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. Today, Philips produces everything from automated external defibrillators to energy-efficient lighting for entire cities. It even applies its smart sensor technology to teeth brushing.

Project 8

Project Productivity Products Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. Three types of investors satisfy both criteria.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

These two simple steps will liberate new energy, lead to the development of new interactions between stakeholders, allow new experiences to emerge for all, generate new value for the ecosystem as a whole, and create wealth for the company's shareholders. Having already mobilized diversity suppliers (e.g.,

CEO 10

CEO Company Ramaswamy Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. It’s about having the guts to seek feedback from others in a sincere and genuine fashion. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In an uncanny fashion, the beginning of this century mirrors that of the last — the speed, scale, and disruption of globalization is generating a strong nationalist backlash. Bruce Nussbaum , former assistant managing editor for Business Week , is professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons School of Design.

Globalization 15

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. Old-fashioned analog controls require tuning and are expensive to manufacture. What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software.

Software 8

Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). health or energy) or in general cross-cutting subjects (e.g., They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., Policy experts are key team members located at headquarters with business and corporate unit leaders.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Over the past decade, technological advances have enabled us to work at all hours, often at great expense to our sleep. All of these practices feed employees’ intrinsic need for learning, enabling them to pursue new interests in a self-directed fashion, fostering both autonomy and personal development.

How To 8

How To Early Adopters Software Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In typical careful IBM fashion, they began by measuring employee communication, so they could estimate how many messages would be sent on the new system. But as the Big Blue engineers discovered three decades ago, this technology is not passive; it instead actively changes what we mean by “real work.”

Proposal 8

Proposal Technology Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". It wasn't just energy. In reality, both views were right. In the U.S., economy commodity prices have become.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.” And they carefully manage leadership transitions, so nothing is lost along the way.

Organization 11

Organization Learning-by-Doing Open-book McKinsey 11