The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Certainly the pandemic has spurred innovation and we’re delighted to see the adoption of some digital health solutions at a faster pace,” says Leslie Harris, Managing Director of EIT Health UK-Ireland. It’s a process that has almost vanished during the pandemic. “Much of that is by sheer necessity.

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Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 97

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Dave Yarin is a compliance and risk management consultant to senior management and directors of large and mid-size companies, and author of the soon to be published book, Fair Warning – The Information Within. This week, Yarin shared with me insights into compliance and risk management, his forthcoming book, and leadership.

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Compliance Risk Management Management Compliance Officer 80

Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

In this article, we will explore why getting more women in leadership positions is a must, the pros and cons of leadership training for women and how businesses can strike a better balance for women’s leadership training in the long-term. Mentoring can happen in groups, one-on-one, across departments or over long or short periods of time.

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Training Leadership Diversity Long-term 52

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries. billion in the last 5 years).

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. You should manage appearances on creating a feeling of comfort and engendering confidence…not on trying to impress.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. About the Author.

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. In Amazon’s case, all this cash is being used to finance the company’s continued explosive growth. Actually, though, it isn’t inventory management that distinguishes Amazon from Walmart and Costco.

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Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 21

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

All these and more speak to the fact that communication is almost always best when aligned with the natural human tendency to think and learn in terms of stories. In short, what I needed for him to do was paint me the picture, not give me the dimensions of the frame. We remember what we see much better than what we merely hear.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 112

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.". Executive talent.

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CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust. In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners. Doesn't the focus on them distract executives and investors from companies' long-term prospects? From the government?

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Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). 3) That your intern can manage your content strategy. It grows sales.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are two stories you can tell about finance in America. Managers and boards now actively look to “outsmart” the activists in order to maintain control, and critics have alleged that activist hedge funds contribute to the economy’s bias toward short-term thinking.

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Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM. For example, Megan, a woman we spoke to who works in finance, explained that after being harassed by a colleague, she went to HR and asked to move to a different position. I said, ‘I sure have.

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Report Long-term Training Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. The key aspect of the process owner role is that they are focused not on the daily operation of a process, but on its design and long-term improvement.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it. Lets face it.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

But organizations themselves can rarely, if ever, pursue the long-term approach to talent development described in the latest reportage on Seal Team 6. Rather than creating a long development arc for talent, organizations educate people in short and often unconnected bursts.

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Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. Entrepreneurs often perceive a short window of opportunity. Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. As a professor, I suppose I am guilty of mincing words.

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Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. Or those who find themselves on the short end in the latest reorganization or merger selection? With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company.

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Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. We should also question the assumption that investor preference for quick returns limits managers’ ability to invest in the future.

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Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Social Media Gets Physical Coke Designs a Friendly Bottle That Can Only Be Opened by Another Bottle Adweek The Colombian office of the Leo Burnett ad agency has designed a plastic Coke bottle with a cleverly engineered cap that can be opened only when it’s fitted together with another Coke bottle’s cap and twisted.

Short-term 8

Short-term Mass Marketing Long-term Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The revolution ran on equity capital, which was in short supply. DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Similarly, production engineers treated their factories royally and their labor as expendable, until unions and labor laws intervened.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Companies can be divided into two types , in terms of how they approach hiring and compensation: organizational oriented and market oriented.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. 2 is this distinction between short-term vs. long-term predictability.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. No doubt the tech startup wins the popularity contest hands down.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? My company, Rakuten, Inc.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 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. Much of our corporate strategy is geared towards the long term, and this is where I believe lies the strength of private companies.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Pharmaceuticals. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology. Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation.

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Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. I don't think we can separate the two.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387