Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. EVEN MORE: Yet another example: a good friend of mine from the 2004 Dean campaign, who was active in the 2008 Obama campaign as well, put in a request for web developers through his Facebook e-mail.

Press Release 174

Press Release Discount PR Media 174

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The risk is that when faced with the intense pressure an external shock, such as a recession, places upon managers, they can be tempted to take short cuts, reduce costs to the bone, and fundamentally break these implicit contracts, both through reducing pay and benefits, but also shortchanging employees in a variety of ways.

Short-term 114

Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 114

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

Technology has allowed numerous industries to grow at a rapid pace and has streamlined countless business processes…but it still can’t learn, design, and discover the way people can. Ake et al, 2004; pg 266). Technology has its role in every workplace, but the lights are back on for the people in the room. Bech, 2017).

Guidelines 83

Guidelines Software Proposal Technology 83

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. was paid around 20% less than their peers at one of the most innovative firms.

Skills 88

Skills Emotional Intelligence Stress Storytelling 88

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. Amazon has almost single-handedly bankrupted Borders.

Business Model 62

Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 62

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Those who are self-employed just don’t have the same access to AI resources that corporate employees do, which makes it difficult for them to keep up with these technological advancements,” the researchers say. Testing the waters. This renders the likes of lawyers and doctors less at risk. A new form of safety net.

Report 72

Report Project Learning-by-Doing Skills 72

Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Business cases are, necessarily, usually focused on successful efforts, researched after the fact and written from a management perspective. Changes in technology, consumer behavior and the actions of your competitors make that a near certainty.

Strategy 56

Strategy Case Study Survey Politics 56

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

I am adept at establishing policies, procedures, and technologies to enhance efficiency, financial health, and service to organize constituents. In another, I managed significant software changeover/upgrade for more accurate and timely processing of accounting functions, inventory reports, and financial statements."

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Content 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain.

Management 13

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Virtually everything except customer management and building the brand was left to partners.

Technology 9

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In part 2, employees rated the best-of-the-best ideas and senior management committed to implement the top 35.

Process 16

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today. Previously a straggling and struggling conglomerate, it bravely focused 100% on mobile communications, was an early adopter and driver of 2G technology, and quickly became a recognised world leader in both supply chain management and brand-building.

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Building on a relationship that dates back to 2004, Zurich Insurance Group is working with DXC to move from traditional data center outsourcing to a Platform as a Service model, taking advantage of next-generation cloud management technologies to lower operating costs and accelerate development.

Insurance 8

Insurance Technology Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against.

IPO 17

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? Since that’s often the job of a consultant to begin with, should we be surprised?

Consultative 13

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. One implication is that any project management method that is based on the assumption that requirements can be frozen has set itself up for failure — another good reason why agile might be here to stay. billion in revenues.

Technology 9

Technology CIO Agility Software 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. It measures and holds itself accountable for changes in the way that teachers use information and communications technology in the classroom.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

Price 10

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. In short, it is their primary management system. When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system.

Customer Loyalty 15

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? But there are gender-based distinctions in how men and women were able to regulate and manage their emotional response to these stimuli. Men on the job must feel besieged.

Bottom-up 16

Bottom-up Metrics Finance Construction 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

Company 17

Company Survey Finance Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management. Rather than try to educate the CEO about technology, focus on the portfolio of risks associated with the legacy system.

System 15

System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. There has also been a 5.2% It can be hired or bought.

Attrition 11

Attrition Diversity Sports CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. Insight Center.

Health Care 12

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The better I get at filtering and managing my email, the more convinced I am that email overload may be an intractable problem. If you're getting 10 emails a day, that seems like a manageable volume. It is unacceptable to ignore (i.e. not respond to) an email that implicitly or explicitly asks for a response. What if it's 500?

Shaw 17

Shaw Cost Review Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. That''s a big change from only five years ago, when UX wasn''t on anyone''s radar outside the tech world. Given Apple''s success, it is not surprising to see many executives following Jobs'' lead.

Leadership 14

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies).

How To 13

How To Airlines Open-book Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. In their book, The 2020 Workplace , Meister and Willyerd talk about reverse mentoring in which a more junior person advises a senior person on things like new technology.

Mentor 19

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. This simple strategy proved wildly successful.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If you’re one of the many managers out there who must negotiate with companies in China — the world’s largest emerging economy — you probably need to change your approach. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. The acquisition was a huge success.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization. Of course it would be ideal to hire a manager who is equally adept in Peoria and Pune, but there is a paucity of such talent in a growing emerging market.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. ” The case of healthcare technology firm athenahealth is an instructive one. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. That is good news for the companies involved. Several executives in my study had the same experience.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. It is currently at less than o.5% 5% of the federal budget.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8