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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. The rise of contractual employment offers businesses the benefit of agility and adaptability by turning full-time employees into freelancers. wages) into a variable cost (i.e.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Cost increases of about $400mm are expected to be offset by other synergies in the two separate companies at the end of 2017. The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Global business units (products, brands, categories, or customer segments).

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How One CMO Revamped Her Role

Harvard Business

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising.

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. Instead, the finance office can allow the department to keep some of the savings it created, in excess of the original acquisition cost, in future year budgets. Gillian Blease/Getty Images. health care system.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. Uber apparently lacked oversight about sexual harassment behavior; it seems far less likely that such oversight would be lacking when it comes to finance.

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Global Companies Need to Adopt Agile Pricing in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

Given that we are expecting continued emerging market currency depreciation (and a gradual devaluation of the Chinese yuan as the Central Bank of China seeks to maintain China’s export competitiveness), this issue is going to be a significant problem for multinational corporations (MNCs) in 2017, and possibly beyond.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. And here’s to an even better 2017!”