BCG

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Article Monday, October 17, 2016. By BCG’s count, most companies listed on the major stock exchanges of the developed world have some type of SSC. In its relatively short history, the shared services center (SSC) has become something of a fixture in the global corporate landscape.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. But they don’t know how to get there.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Focus Thursday, September 15, 2016. In the early 1990s, a mere dozen Africa-based funds managed a combined $1 billion; today, more than 200 funds manage upwards of $30 billion. For the past decade, Africa has been one of the world’s hottest growth markets for private equity investment. Or is a bubble building?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

The leadership challenge is to figure out the best way to manage the formation of a blended new shared culture. An organization’s culture reflects the various lessons it has learned through its history and incorporates the many behaviors and processes that have developed over time. Human Resource Management, 50(6), 859-877.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Strategy consulting offers the chance to work with senior executives on the big questions that will determine the long-term strategic direction of the company, and how the business is managed to ensure the actions taken are consistent with the strategy all the way down through the organisation. Tom: How many consultants do you have in London?

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The next election for prime minister is not scheduled until June 2016, but a February 2015 presidential election (a largely ceremonial position) threatens to upset the cart. Inefficiency often associated with Greece remains a fact of life in many areas, despite massive European development aid.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? 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. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

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Harvard Business

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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Harvard Business

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

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. In addition, we found that partnering with an external cloud service provider to deliver SaaS (instead of building and managing the cloud infrastructure on your own) leads to a further 2.9% On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” In light of this, we think the pressing question isn’t whether managers and CEOs should care about advancing society’s goals, but how they do so most effectively.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. Under Immelt, GE decide to make rather than buy , and develop the needed capability in-house.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. In many cases, the change-management challenges of incorporating AI into employee processes and decision making far outweigh technical AI implementation challenges.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

Yet, in the first quarter of 2016 the company sold only $17 million of Entresto in the U.S. Maybe a brand manager is moved to a different department, but little else changes – the same consultants are hired, the same “best practices” are pursued – and organization itself rarely actually learns.

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

Rather than blogs focused on a particular consulting industry, I’m listing blogs that are focused on business development, marketing, and sales for consultants and independent professionals. However, most people believe you need to be a Harvard graduate and work in corporate finance to be one.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. When they got back to Rotterdam Eye Hospital, the managers asked themselves why couldn’t they add a similar feature to their own “team-start” huddles? Kelly Sillaste/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. sanctions, which were initially enacted in 1979 and strengthened in subsequent years, resulted in many U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 20, 2017

A strong, transparent, and trust-driven culture plays a central role in driving a scale-down decision and in managing the process as the it unfolds. The client, which constituted some 80 percent of Home Run’s billings, advised Home Run that its 2016 billings were likely to fall sharply. Managing Cash. He wanted out.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

One evening in February 2016, writer and filmmaker Ava DuVernay met with two top Disney executives about the possibility of directing an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. She had already developed a reputation for taking on daunting projects, and she knew these two executives admired her work.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2016

Let me begin this post with a personal confession: Although I’ve talked with many managers about career transitions over the years, I’ve never had a career transition myself until now. For the past 37 years I’ve worked as a management consultant at the same firm I started in straight out of graduate school.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. strategic hires).

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

This is a very significant, negative development for the city of Chicago’s financial position,” Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation, a nonpartisan research group in Chicago, said in an interview. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. Consider Pokemon Go, the viral sensation of Summer 2016 and the most popular smartphone game in history. It is formed at conception and does not change. It’s the reason identical twins have different fingerprints.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

A 2016 study estimated that there are more than 53,300 professional coaches worldwide, and the British paper The Independent pegged the number of management consultants at 500,000. Of course, competition for these plum positions is growing. that your retirement and new career might entail. Do a skills analysis.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This program, our Fresh Food “Farmacy ,” has had clinical impacts superior to those provided by medications that cost billions of dollars to develop, and has done so at dramatically lower cost. Together, these behaviors can contribute to the development of diabetes and exacerbate it. The Next Steps.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. ” They Develop a Road Map Before Disruption Takes Hold.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Developers ($40.75/hour) Employees with a full-time contract have a tendency to get comfortable and stop investing time in the development of new skills. In the next years, companies will begin increasingly focusing on output from workers rather than time logged each day, which makes it easier to hire and manage freelancers.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2019

The idea that technology can be configured to drastically improve the delivery and usability of finance began taking off following the financial crisis of 2008, when consumer distrust for traditional banks combined with the increasing popularity and functionality of smartphone apps. Kagan, Julia (2019) What is Fintech?

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

He earned his PhD in resource management, underlining his expertise. Albert is the co-founder of Epicflow, an AI-driven multi-project management system. This article explores managing uncertainty in organizations. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more.

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