The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, the research also highlights the significance of diverse educational, industrial, and organizational backgrounds among managers and board members in fostering innovation in research and development (R&D), thereby generating both economic and social value. ”

Diversity 115

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 115

Modern Servant Leader

JULY 2, 2024

Redd 2014 Servant Leadership Define Your Destiny Self-Awareness Balance Delivering Happiness In this, his first audiobook, Tony Hsieh - the widely admired CEO of Zappos, the online shoe retailer - explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of employees, customers, vendors, and backers.

Library 100

Library Leadership Greenleaf Servant Leader 100

Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Upon arrival, we were greeted by a polite, 6-year-old host with a white shirt and bowtie. Parents were patrons. Students ran operations. Deming, The New Economics, see reference 2, p.

Quality 51

Quality P&L Deming Education 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. Politics' Obama proposed raising the minimum wage to $10.10, and will do so for federal workers by executive action.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

It goes against the grain of established ways of working and is a threat to management practices that have existed for decades. Communication managers no longer have total control over message, target, and timing of news and announcements. Many companies struggle with digital transformation.

Company 8

Company ROI Resistance Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? There were several huge snowstorms last year, so 2014 was an anomaly.”

Tacit Knowledge 11

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Boards of directors of global corporations will increasingly face strategic choices and capital allocation decisions framed by mounting geo-political risks. Each of these shifts have consequences for how today’s multinational corporations should manage themselves. And in 2014, Pfizer, the U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Amid the political uncertainties that continue to cloud the future of U.S. They may undergo tests and procedures that are designed to better characterize and manage complications of chronic conditions rather than prevent or treat them. In 2014 the Medicare fee-for-service program spent $173 billion on 9.7

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Your polite smile notwithstanding, probably not good. A parallel occurs in the business world when two managers allow their rivalry to escalate into public, tooth-and-claw conflict. Yet because his or her position in the organizational hierarchy is roughly equivalent to yours, the two of you are seen as almost interchangeable.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Rogers Restructuring Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals. At the event, new technologies provide cost-reduction and revenue opportunities for all stakeholders.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S.,

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country. Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. New energy management software can also help identify consumption inefficiency and automate electricity usage when necessary by collecting site-specific energy data.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Who doesn’t stand in awe of the advances that science and its STEM siblings (technology, engineering, and math) have created to better our world? Instead of just STEM, we should perhaps be promoting STEMMA — raising a new generation that also has greater capacities for managing collective human endeavors and appreciating the arts.

Skills 8

Skills Drucker Gordon Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. Lawrence A. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

A combination of facial analysis, voice pattern analysis, and deep learning can already decode human emotions for market research and political polling purposes. Targeted emotional learning systems are also being tested for group settings, such as by analyzing the emotions of students for teachers , or workers for managers.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The data also shows that younger founders and founders with prestigious educational backgrounds or prior experience in large technology companies tend to be more successful. Good investments are increasingly coming from burgeoning technology centers in Texas and North Carolina. Of course, some caveats are in order.

Succession 8

Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

The response to Ebola has largely relied on public health strategies established over a century ago and technology that has been around for decades. In September 2014, the U.S. Indeed, fresh thinking and new technologies could potentially address many challenges. The possible innovations are not limited to technologies alone.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. The country’s tourism sector attracted fewer than five million visitors in 2014 while neighboring Turkey attracted 39 million people.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

But despite perceptions of entrenched corruption, economic turbulence, and political risk, many big firms have invested and maintained a presence in the country. It had a shrinking labor force, low labor productivity, low technological competitiveness of Russian exports, and excessive government meddling that constrained investment.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Over the last decade, most companies’ digital agendas have focused largely on technology — moving to cloud-based software, modernizing IT infrastructures, adding digital channels, and digitizing business processes. He left in 2014 to pursue a transformation at Airbnb.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. 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.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Criticizing others may be cloaked as a subtle or even polite dialog. That was caused by previous management. We’ve got the latest technology. Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies.

Budgeting 72

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 72

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. Then from 2000 to 2014, everything got wildly more expensive , doubling and tripling at least. In the U.S., Wall Street wakes up.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? This was a $1.2

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

” In the book, I warned that technology might actually destroy more jobs than it was creating. I asked, “How will we manage the transition to new types of work and a new knowledge base for the economy?” It appears that the biggest culprit is digital technologies themselves. Insight Center. This matters.

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. The prices of most of those expenditures are rising faster than inflation.

Retail 10

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Price 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

They have spoken out on social, political, and environmental issues, such as climate change, LGBT rights, equal pay, immigration, gun control, and race relations. Each political event produced its own unique stamp, including legal briefs, open letters, resignations from presidential councils, and the usage of new hashtags on social media.

CEO 8

CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies GDP 8