Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

While investing in such material assets is easily done and provides immediate gratification, findings from our research using six years of data from nearly 3,000 acute-care hospitals suggest that it is the communication between caregivers and patients that has the largest impact on reducing readmissions. They are increasingly found in U.S.

Hospitality 13

Hospitality Administration Assets Benefits 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

He’s a real asset to us. Surely the company could benefit from a more contemporary perspective. Date: May 12, 2013 21:37. Date: June 6, 2013 20:16. Date: June 8, 2013 07:12. Date: June 8, 2013 07:22. Date: June 8, 2013 07:25. Date: June 8, 2013 19:21. Will you do that for me? To: Ioana Romano.

Engineering 15

Engineering Operations Education Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Assets 15

Assets Operations Revenue Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Who Benefits? Business leaders providing services that benefit both a suffering population and a profiteering government could ask themselves this question, too. Or should it decline, because the dam benefits the military junta? .” That could be a good “true north” argument for others, too. Why Are You There?

Government 15

Government Banking Operations Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. Henry, like any leader seeking strategic change, can benefit from these turnaround lessons. Identify the core assets that create value for customers, and refurbish them. Find a meaningful unifying purpose.

Assets 13

Assets Change Management Software Media 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Census data from 1990 to 2013. “We show that a typical worker of any skill type would benefit from working at a middle-paying firm relative to a low-paying firm,” the authors write in the paper. “But it is the workers of any skill type employed at high-paying firms who benefit the most.”

Education 13

Education Assets Benefits Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Valuable corporate assets — from intellectual property to pirated software to stolen code bases and other digital products — appear for sale on these marketplaces more and more. As InformationWeek recently put it, the darknet is “where your stolen identity goes to live.” And it isn’t a problem just for consumers.

Engineering 13

Engineering Assets Software Sales 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Nearly 40 percent of the 312 CFOs and other executives participating in Deloitte’s 2013 Global Finance Talent Survey said they are either “barely able” or “unable” to meet the demand for the talent required to run their organizations. Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

Human Resources 15

Human Resources Administration Assets Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.” The top priority for all brick-and-mortar chains should be to capitalize on their biggest asset – customers who visit their stores and connect with their brand.

Travel 12

Travel Sales Sales Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

At many companies the total cash investment in acquisitions, R&D, and fixed assets has not earned back its cost of capital after adjusting for the time lag in realizing incremental benefits. That outcome reflects the wrong allocation and/or ineffective execution. Don’t delegate them away.

Assets 11

Assets Benefits Marketing Manager 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In short, women in financial services face a tougher career trade-off of higher costs and lower expected benefits. Many women must face a harsh reality: The cost of growing their career in financial services outweighs the potential benefits, taking into account the greater uncertainty and obstacles they face.

Banking 14

Banking Revenue Human Resources Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

And it brought some benefits. Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., Age segregation also constitutes a missed opportunity for combining the unique assets of age and youth in the workplace. However, during the industrial age in the U.S.,

Education 15

Education Assets Banking Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. They’re not yet able to generate the kind of topline growth we’d normally expect to see in a company with the asset size they’ve got,” analyst James Gellert of Rapid Ratings International told Forbes after the earnings came out. And the company’s latest (Oct.

Marketing 13

Marketing Cash Flow Software Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. We began collaborating when we recognized how interlaced asset management and product recovery were in textbook CEs. We identified these approaches through our work with life cycle asset management company DLL.

Assets 8

Assets Scaling Operations Hospitality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The loans also benefit the borrowers: they can strategically access talent for they would not otherwise be able to attract or afford, and use them for just the few months or a season that the talent is most needed. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013.

Leadership Development 13

Leadership Development Telecommunications Government Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In mid-September 2013, 10 professionals returning from multi-year career breaks walked into 270 Park Avenue in New York City to begin the J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In Morgan ReEntry Program. And last week J.P.

Diversity 10

Diversity Recruitment Assets Inclusion 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more.

Software 14

Software B2B Marketing Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. While these highly visible behaviors benefited senior men, senior women were often criticized when exhibiting this approach. For example, “He is a driver; she is demanding and bossy.

Performance Review 15

Performance Review Assets Inclusion Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Assets reported on a balance sheet have to be physical in nature, have to be owned by the company, and be within the company’s confines. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Revenue Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Rather, what leaders need is practical wisdom — that is, a set of new capabilities that enable them see the potential benefit in complexity, and turn complexity into an opportunity to bring value to their organizations and the society at large. Intelligence alone won't be enough to deal effectively with the escalating complexity.

Scaling 11

Scaling Assets Employee Engagement Government 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. 100B in assets, and predicts double-digit growth in assets under management over the next several years.

Assets 8

Assets Marketing Operations Benefits 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Failure to present a groundbreaking new vision risks leaving in place old economic drivers, especially the over-reliance on fixed-asset investment, that have created serious challenges such as China’s “ghost cities” and high levels of local government debt. What Needs to Change. The third is the tax system.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Government Revenue Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

years in 2013 from 60.3 The digital transition needs to both protect profitable operations and assets, while making the transition to a new digital business or digitally enhancing part of the existing business. Get closer to the executive team leading the change to understand the strategy, the priorities and the expected benefits.

Digital Transformation 9

Digital Transformation Risk Management Operations Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). As a long-term asset of significant value, the brand should be part of those calculations. Ask for the CFO’s help.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

That was my worry during the seemingly interminable period that separated my final revisions to Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China , submitted in August 2013, and the actual publication date in late January 2014. Phasing out the one-child family planning policy is an important case in point.

Assets 8

Assets Government Marketing Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. billion in 1997 to U.S. billion a decade later. Now the country is at a crossroads.

Banking 8

Banking Government Marketing Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

These elements are fundamental attributes of a company’s offering in their most essential and discrete forms – things like product quality, flexibility, and associated expertise; they lift value propositions above commodity status and benefit customers in particular ways.

B2B 8

B2B Engineering Benchmarking Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Assets Revenue Government 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

in 2013 to 3.7 When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6 Over one-third of this plan’s assets are invested in GE shares , which are used by the company to match employee contributions. in early 2018, according to Moody’s.

Cash Flow 8

Cash Flow Revenue Accounts Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. Then there is the question of how to reallocate assets.

Fixed Costs 14

Fixed Costs Assets Cash Flow Variable Costs 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The number of companies targeted by activist hedge funds has increased dramatically since then, to more than 200 in 2013. In some cases, the activists pushed firms to sell unproductive assets; in others they sought changes in strategy. eBay is a recent example. “This is what they’re supposed to be doing.”

Benefits 12

Benefits Assets Banking Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. Five Questions For 2013. on to 2013. In his November newsletter , he demonstrated exactly how much of a drag on the U.S.

Energy 14

Energy Sales Sales Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

“But the fact that you’ve been away” and presumably have learned a lot in the process “is an asset.” But in 2013, after five years at the company, she resigned. When Bridget left Profiles in 2013, she had been an account executive and social media strategist. …And reset your own, as well. .”

Onboarding 15

Onboarding B2C Media Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Real Estate Assets Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

These are segments that would have been impossible for individual artisans to organize in a cost-effective way before the rise of the Internet and electronic communication tools that cut out expensive middlemen and asset-heavy enterprises. And digital capabilities also benefit the production, not just the distribution , of Etsy’s goods.

Sales 8

Sales Sales Marketing Benefits 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. All of these are heavily regulated, often by federal, state, and local agencies.

Transportation 11

Transportation Software Marketing Insurance 11

Jim Taggart

OCTOBER 14, 2022

An advocate of a higher minimum wage, Hanauer wrote a commentary in 2013 for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, in which he proposed a $15 minimum wage. However, at the core of the one percent issue is wealth, encompassing assets less liabilities. He also helped create The League of Education Voters in the state of Washington.

Banking 111

Banking Government Education Benefits 111