Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

Twenty years later, she is still involved, and she has put both of her children through college (her son is an engineer, her daughter is a teacher). When you deny access to education, finance, housing, and health care, the poor remain poor. With a tiny loan, Padma transformed the lives of her two children.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance IPO Bottom-up Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Dedicated teams like these benefit from the company’s core business, its Performance Engine while they create future opportunities.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. Today Dexter brings on 80–100 Year Up interns annually for tech jobs ranging from software engineering to customer service. ”

Organization 8

Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. We have positioned ourselves not just as a productivity-driving force but also as an agent of society by investing in education and health care for our people.

Industry 11

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Although many European countries currently suffer from high unemployment, some key sectors (including, for example, health care ) suffer from a chronic lack of qualified job-seekers. “My brother was an engineer in geophysics. Recognizing qualifications. It wasn’t easy, but it was that or menial jobs.”

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Gain senior leadership support.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

From a departmental perspective, under 20% of accounting and IT staffers want to be challenged, while 43% of the engineering department does. The fashion and finance verticals had the highest propensity to select the best-known, top-of-the-line product, while manufacturing and health care had the lowest. #4:

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. telemetry, communications and connectivity protocols, electrical hardware engineering).

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). What is their longevity?

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The London-based startup Arria, for instance, helps its customers automatically generate reports in industries ranging from health care to finance to oil and gas. Engineers, for example, have saved up to 40 hours of reporting task time each month. Then it scours incoming data to build new reports. Predictive maintenance.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Company Root Cause Analysis Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. Half of this job growth came in health care, government, retail, and construction.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Medicine is fraught with anachronistic administrative structures, as well as competing and redundant decision-making processes involving many stakeholders (the hospital, doctors, nurses, compliance, finance, and others) who often work in silos and have differing goals. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Reflection items are what Mycroft was to Sherlock: the smarter — but largely invisible — big brother. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. So heres how to craft your own reflection items.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“You might move from product to engineering to ops.” He also considered the impact a change might have on his family and its finances. The tech giant provides top-notch health care, competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and “the chance to work on some truly groundbreaking projects,” he says.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. born engineers. “But more engineers is a good thing.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2018

Still, despite the explosion of interest in the data collected by just about every sector of American business — from financial companies and health care firms to management consultancies and the government — many organizations continue to relegate data-science knowledge to a small number of employees.

Tools 8

Tools Learning-by-Doing Health Care Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s almost as complex as health care reform. The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. ” On allocating talent between finance and the rest of the economy: “We have had a world in which there’s been a distortion.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8