Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The conviction spread that, thanks in part to financial innovation, the world's developed economies had become more resilient even as financial markets became more volatile. And economists are dubious of his proposals for massive agent-based computer models of the economy. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S.

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

aspiring fashion designers on the show face challenges and someone is eliminated each week until the winner is crowned. We described the challenge before them: continue to provide current (or improved) service levels, support all new health-reform-related initiatives, and propose budget cuts. Change management'

Tips 11

Tips Health Care Budgeting CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

They want to see how these approaches … are truly beneficial to existing priorities like retention, talent advancement, innovation.” Thanks to my meditation practice, I was able to keep my composure and propose solutions to reduce the impact of the market crash.” The trading desk was an organized riot. Mindfulness.

CEO 8

CEO Emotional Intelligence Cooper Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

An old-fashioned process, proposition innovation starts with companies — not consumers — and entails developing products and services that aren't based on consumer feedback or profiles. In most of these fashion houses, a single designer (sometimes, a small team) is the only source of innovation.

Innovation 14

Innovation Power Fashion Travel 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Use a request for proposals to find the best providers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Many businesses these days are clogged up by bureaucracy that thwarts innovation, slows down creativity, and encourages mediocrity. They are fearful of putting their heads above the parapet, so they take a play-it-safe attitude and come up with the conservative, tame, and expected proposals. I hate mediocrity.

Mission Statement 297

Mission Statement Charisma Bureaucracy Politics 297

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Super-specialized physicians learned how to attack disease in various organs systems, and fatalism has gone out of fashion. In those interactions, physicians in particular tend to focus upon clinical suffering — reducing symptoms, treating the underlying illness and managing side effects. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Constraint System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. ” Next, both methods advise trying out the proposed solution.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 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.". Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

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. Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy even proposed taxing U.S. One energy hog, the IT sector, has managed to level off energy use in data centers. days of innovation).

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” Treasury allowed Lehman Brothers to go under in a disorderly fashion, demonstrates how much harm can be done to the economy when something as large as a big commercial bank fails.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8