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Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 15

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.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Too much money is spent on attention-grabbing activities that are straightforward to do, like hiring new people, procuring new technologies, and buying more facilities. This includes technology and people, as well as tangible, intangible, and financial assets. ” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015.

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Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Vertical Sales Adoption. SMB Specialization. Inside Sales Roles.

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Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings. The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2015. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain.

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Insurance Industry Policies Market Penetration 15

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. But as Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology, said, “With FastWorks we’re learning that speed is our competitive advantage. They intend to launch new products every year.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

If you''re a technological latecomer, you can grow fast by importing foreign technology, but once you''ve succeeded in that you have to start investing in and developing your own, which is a harder task. annual growth, China would cross the $10,000 per capita threshhold in 2015, and $15,000 in 2020. China Economy Finance'

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S. solar in 2015. For comparison, there are less than 100 nuclear plants in the U.S.)

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Technology Energy System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

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Banking Credit Scoring Stage-Gate Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

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. Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Yet, along other dimensions, the state is unwittingly hindering China’s emergence as a technological giant. in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% in 2000 to 2.0% ” But what’s the effect?

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Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

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Team Conference Restructuring Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Of course, the retrenchment of global finance also reflects pressure on banks from regulators and shareholders to rebuild their capital and liquidity. As European banks retreat, China is leading something of a changing of the guard in global finance. China has risen from 16th place in 2005 to 8th in 2015. And it is not alone.

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Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. raised wages to $9 an hour (and they’ll be $10 in 2015), and in June IKEA lifted its minimum wage by 17%.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

The genetic testing in question would be financed as an administrative cost, rather than as a regular medical claim, and would be for the benefit of the employer, not to inform the confidential doctor-patient relationship. This figure is likely to decline as genetic testing technology improves and more vendors get into the market.

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Insurance Power Committee Cost 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In 2015, Global Trade Alert, an independent trade-monitoring group, cited at least 644 discriminatory trade measures imposed by the G20 economies with the U.S. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

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Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

AI is a huge set of technologies, each with a specific, fine-tuned purpose. With the help of machines and advanced optical character recognition (OCR) technology , the USPS can now read and process 98% of all hand-addressed mail and 99.5% By linking this technology with a relatively small and finite data set of U.S.

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USP Airlines Products Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. Classic leadership lessons apply. Enter a coalition.

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Project Transportation Construction Engineering 8

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. Ultimately, success in the digital age lies not in the efficiency of technology, but in the dexterity and adaptability of the people who wield it.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Technological challenges.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. There’s a great irony when you consider that the “Big Three” cities for entrepreneurship — San Francisco/San Jose, Boston, and New York — are some of the most difficult places in the U.S.

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Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. And almost all of us have limits on our time and finances — due to kids, social organizations, work, and more — that make additional formal education impractical or impossible.

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Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Liberate and accelerate data by creating a data supply chain built on a hybrid technology environment — a data service platform combined with emerging big data technologies. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects. For example, a U.S.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

And equipment must be maintained in a world that is becoming virtual and augmented by technology (VR and AR). For further evidence of this, we examined the 2015 S&P 1500 Index , a mix of small-, medium-, and large-cap stocks, and separated the index based on industry sector according to FactSet’s industry classification.

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Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

million apps as of July 2015. Overall, over 20,000 app developers and companies will have made over $100,000 in revenues — or $8,333 per month — from their apps in 2015. billion — will have been generated by publishers outside the Top 100 ranked apps in 2015. In the digital app store, the situation is similar.

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Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Energy-efficient lighting, motors, and other hardware continue to make good sense for many firms, whether financed on the balance sheet or by third parties who provide the upfront capital and then share the savings on future power bills. GW of renewable energy since the beginning of 2015, enough to power about half the state of Connecticut.

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Energy Licensing Efficiency Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. Active is defined as having made at least five tweets during the sampling periods, which were randomly selected multi-hour windows in March 2015. The algorithm is able to infer gender based on language.

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Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. While much has changed even since 2015, there are roadblocks on the journey that have remained surprisingly resilient. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

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Policies Innovation Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S. Year Up, a large source of opportunity-youth trainees in the U.S.,

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Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. Even more recent technologies like deep learning are based on research that took place in the 1980s.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 8