The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The report revolves around 22 peer-reviewed evidence reviews and expert meetings that aimed to debate everything from health and care to housing. Much has already been done to help position the UK to manage the ensuing future challenges of an ageing population,” the authors conclude. Connectivity.

Education 73

Education Report Peer Review Skills 73

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

But social media marketing can offer B2B marketers a range of benefits if they take advantage of it, from increasing engagement and influencing decision making before the sales call to customizing sales messages and enhancing their company’s reputation. But look beyond the numbers of followers (which Maersk has many of).

B2B 8

B2B Media B2C Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

” Of course, your first step as a manager should be to avoid hiring toxic people in the first place , but once they’re on your team, it can be hard to get rid of them. “A manager can use this information to coach the person, or suggest resources to help address the root of the problem.”

Management 14

Management How To Document Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Most of the statistical sources used by management researchers and labor economists do not record “asking” behavior, and do not record people’s motivations for refraining from asking. … Were you concerned about negative effects on your relationship with your manager/employer?”

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Sample Survey Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

interrogatory genre; the real question will be how well candidates can rise to the "appliject" challenge and help redesign a social media campaign, document a tricky bit of software, edit a Keynote presentation, produce a webinar or peer review a CAD layout for a contract Chinese manufacturer. Exploitive?

Project 19

Project Peer Review Human Capital Reference 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., I came up with three major conclusions from this literature review: CEOs Do Matter a Lot. return on sales, return on assets, and market-to-book ratio) have been increasing with time , at least in the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

My survey reached not just writers and editors but also managers, directors, supervisors, executives, analysts, and consultants. They write website copy, memos, reports, blogs, marketing materials, and social media posts. The job of an editor or a peer reviewer is to show you what you cannot see.

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Survey Comparison Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2016

This is particularly true in employee and leadership development programs, with strengths having somewhat of a cult-like following among HR and talent management professionals. Despite popular belief, the strengths-based approach to management is not grounded in science. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself.

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Leadership Development Talent Management Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than two-thirds of large businesses now offer disease-management programs , but most of these are bricks-and-mortar services that can be converted to better-studied, cheaper, and more effective digital therapeutics. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.” ” For 25 years, the jury has been out on whether disease-management programs from national payers can improve quality and achieve real savings.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

One of the biggest challenges facing management scientists has been the struggle to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and applicable to practicing managers. In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. spiderstock/Getty Images.

Metrics 11

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. And the risk can be managed through a new kind of tool called “feature gates.”. Google’s Automated Test Machine. HubSpot’s Small Development Teams and “Feature Gates”.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. Does business education facilitate integration of personal values with management practice? Given this challenge, what can business schools do?

360-Degree Feedback 14

360-Degree Feedback Ethics Education Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

When it comes to choosing media to support a new product launch, consider the target market. Millennials are turning to Facebook and Twitter, while GenZ, or the iGeneration, is skeptical of brands and places more value on peer-to-peer reviews–even from strangers. Marketing' Why did the Fire phone fizzle?

Media 8

Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Peer Review Efficiency Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. The highest estimate that we could find from recent, peer-reviewed studies was a 1.08 Certainly the money at stake is substantial. percent per annum.).

NPV 12

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

When a company has a clear strategy for a new product launch, for example, a leader needs to provide firm directives to get the marketing, distribution, and sales people working together and moving in one direction. Dominance works best when the leader’s job is to get everyone aligned quickly and moving in the same direction.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Peer Review Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In essence, TSC is a data amalgamator, gathering the best peer-reviewed science on the lifecycle impacts and “material” environmental and social issues for a given product category. That said, helping all of us as consumers understand which companies are managing their environmental and social impacts best is a good thing.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Watts has demonstrated, in numerous studies that explore everything from how certain songs become popular to how marketing works, that we are very good at telling stories to ourselves that sound true (e.g. Data are hoarded, scientists refuse to collaborate, and grudges can play a role in peer review. Plank's Principle).

Peer Review 9

Peer Review Resistance Analysis Process 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

More work is needed to achieve the drastic change in market forces that is necessary to create a sustainable health care system. At the foundation of our approach is a knowledge-management system — an electronic archive of Mayo Clinic-vetted knowledge containing evidence-based protocols, order sets, alerts and care process models.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

True, both companies were manipulating users’ emotions, but people don’t seem to mind the daily emotional manipulation that companies engage in every day through marketing and product design. So the studies don’t go through the valuable peer-review process, and the findings don’t see the light of day.

Ethics 8

Ethics Participative Peer Review Learning-by-Doing 8