Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In 1960, the editor of the Harvard Business Review, Theodore Levitt, wrote that the failure of railroads could be explained in part by the myopic view that they were in the railroad business and not the transportation business, which left them vulnerable to competition from cars, trucks, and planes.

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Collaborate with colleagues within department and represent department across entire organization. Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Also selectively acquire companies and unify their disparate cultures and systems.

COO 11

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 11

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. That is why a caregiver benefit is essential in an organization as all employees can find value in it.

Absenteeism 105

Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning. Durant had another great four years at the helm of GM.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. Embrace your organization’s humanity.

Levitt 10

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Three people die every minute from tuberculosis — a treatable and largely preventable disease.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Much of what we’ve learned is relevant to leaders of any type of organization or partnership that want to catalyze change in the face of complex challenges. But these aren’t just lessons for the social sector. Get the right players to the table.

Metrics 8

Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Many established organizations hope that they can stay competitive making only minor tweaks—when these new disruptors have a different approach to everything. Changes of belief percolate throughout an organization. But doing so requires leaders and organizations to upend their core beliefs.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The organizations talking about stranded assets seem to assume that governments will price carbon at some point. Bloomberg New Energy Finance has estimated that between now and 2030, around 70% of the power generation the world will add will be renewables. Let’s quickly look at each. The Stick: Regulation .

NGO 8

NGO Energy Morale Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Are our user experience designs and delivery systems appropriately aligned with use cases?

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Google generates most of its revenue through an auction-based system of selling ads that was developed by two engineers but validated by its chief economist, Hal Varian, a former consultant to the company who was also the first Dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Economists and finance.

Strategy 10

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP). Other organizations contemplating similar programs can learn from our experience. However, many of these patients have transportation, housing, and family-care challenges that make full engagement hard.

Class 8

Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments, while keeping the big picture in mind. Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, so few computer and information systems managers existed in 1980 that data used here did not record this occupation. Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.

Management 9

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. Or Brandon, a rising star at a large, well-known nonprofit organization. While he was making significant improvements to his organization’s way of doing business, the 80-hour weeks were wrecking his home life. anniepaddington/Getty Images.

Career 10

Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 10