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JUNE 17, 2015

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015. It was yet another two years before Stumpf brought in consultants in 2015 to investigate the full scope of impact on consumers. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

At first investors didn’t trust them, but as IBM began meeting and surpassing the targets it set for itself, and Palmisano began inviting the company’s biggest shareholders in for day-long discussions of the company’s strategy, criticism of his leadership faded and the company’s stock began a long upswing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Europe is at the top of your risk list for 2015. You look at Podemos in Spain, with elections coming up in 2015. The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And America’s willingness to weaponize finance has grown substantially as a consequence. The Front National in France.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. corporations from 1985 to 2015. Despite the general trend across schools toward becoming more finance-oriented, there could have been considerable variation in what’s taught.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S. For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Launched in August 2015, Predix helps companies see how their machines and infrastructure are performing so that they can improve them constantly. Marketing, commercial and finance have to work together to develop new pricing models. All of this has to happen fluidly and rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms. Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3 Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% At 20%, China’s share of global R&D expenditure in 2015 was well above Japan’s at 9% or Germany’s at 6% and second only to that of the U.S. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% in 2000 to 2.0% ” But what’s the effect?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Classic leadership lessons apply. In the P3 model, private financing fills holes in public budgets, and profit-oriented engineers and builders find efficiencies while government officials ensure that the public is well served. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P. The company’s finance organization was developing a new three-year Operating Expense (OPEX) plan, at the same time that HR rolled out their new plan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. After all, when HR people routinely talk to finance staff, they are effectively working as members of a cross-functional team. Managers and employees will need to navigate the digital frontier together, and this requires a new set of leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Not Good at All Google Finally Discloses Its Diversity Record, and It’s Not Good PBS NewsHour Google released its global workforce numbers, revealing that 70% of its employees are men, a number that increases to 83% and 79% if you look only at tech jobs and leadership roles. Two percent of Google employees are black.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. Consider what Aetna faced in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

But since the most senior leadership teams are male-dominated, a lot of what happens in companies ends up reflecting that, including how they look and sound. The second, dated 2015, is a global vision of hope, with humans of every race and hue empowered by playful innovation (and it showcases more dads than I have ever seen in any ad).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. For example, the Russian ruble depreciated from being 37 rubles to the dollar in September 2014, to being close to 70 rubles to the dollar in January 2015. That can have disastrous consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Leadership Boards'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

physicians in eight specialties, 100 health system finance officers, as well as 100 health system procurement officers — the people in charge of buying supplies for hospitals. A comparison of our 2015 and 2017 survey findings shows a notable slowdown in the adoption of value-based payment models.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Leadership is happy to ask that proposals and presentations be backed by “data.” To judge by the measly performance of mega banks’ in the past two decades, compared with more locally focused smaller banks, not much ( The Economist , March 5, 2015, “A world of pain: The giants of global finance are in trouble”).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. MedStar connects all three portfolios not just through resource allocation but through the constant efforts of the leadership team, which does not delegate this task.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. tax jurisdiction. Breakthrough innovations in high tech certainly have a powerful impact on performance, but they are quite rare.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape. Innovation and change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. Support from the highest levels of an organization’s leadership provides “air cover” for building the necessary systems and cultural change necessary for this high-touch style of care.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. Nordstrom has increased its sales by 50 percent from 2010 to 2015 through both online and offline sales. And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2015

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Instead, we are looking for a person with a combination of leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation skills- the new triple threat. Excluding businesses that were spun out as stand-alone companies, corporate companies divested a record $115 billion of healthcare assets in 2015. Healthcare companies seem to be catching on.

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