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A Chart That Shows Which Industries Are the Most Digital (and Why)

Harvard Business Review

Over the past two decades, the leading sectors’ performance on various digital labor metrics — such as the share of tasks involving digital tools and the number of new digital occupations — rose eightfold, while the rest of the economy barely ran in place.

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What Your Boss Really Wants from You

Harvard Business Review

Even in these times of feverish attention to performance metrics, it’s not always clear what the boss wants or expects. 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.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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A Model Stakeholder Strategy from the Garment Industry

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Stop Paying Executives for Performance

Harvard Business Review

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. Incentive plans demand that some metric be used as the trigger for a payout.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs.

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