Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2018
cintascotch/Getty Images. If you watched the Super Bowl a few months ago, you probably saw the coaches talking to each other over headsets during the game. What you didn’t know is that during the 2016 season, the NFL made major league-wide improvements to its radio frequency technology, both to prevent interference from media using the same frequency and to prevent tampering.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2018
Picture Post/Getty Images. The board of directors of a public company has a long list of oversight responsibilities, but it is not always the case that directors receive the information they need to make fully informed decisions on key matters, such as strategy, succession, and performance monitoring. We recently studied a novel approach to information sharing at Netflix that provides a model for overcoming this governance shortfall.
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David A Fields
MAY 8, 2018
Many consulting firm leaders think marketing their consulting practice is like baseball: You get up to bat with your articles, or blogs, or tweets, or speeches (a.k.a. your marketing). At some point you’ll hit one out of the park; i.e., one of your marketing tactics garners a passel of viewers or readers or listeners.
Strategy+Business
MAY 8, 2018
The presence of risk requires robust systems for trading on and underwriting that risk. For that reason, the underwriting of technological change will soon become one of the core competencies that companies must develop or acquire to compete in the bionic age -- an age in which companies will succeed based on their ability to leverage financial, human, natural, behavior, cognitive, and network capital.
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Management and IT Consulting
MAY 8, 2018
The consulting industry as a whole has accepted that gender diversity is not just the right thing to do; it’s a business imperative. The correlation between greater representation of women in leadership and positive business outcomes has been well-documented.
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Strategy+Business
MAY 8, 2018
High-profile companies that frequently use consumer data are targets, and negative effects linger for years.
LSA Global
MAY 8, 2018
Who Is Responsible for Employee Engagement Accountability? When employee engagement is on the rise, who takes credit? And when engagement is on the decline, who takes the blame? Is the finger pointing at you? Whether you are the organization’s CEO, the head of HR, a manager, or an employee, we believe you are responsible for employee engagement accountability.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2018
Joshua Gans, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, advises against trying to commercialize a new technology or product before considering all the strategic options. He talks through some questions entrepreneurs should ask themselves — like, collaborate or compete? — and outlines a framework he and his fellow researchers have found to work best for startups.
Strategy+Business
MAY 8, 2018
The presence of risk requires robust systems for trading on and underwriting that risk. For that reason, the underwriting of technological change will soon become one of the core competencies that companies must develop or acquire to compete in the bionic age -- an age in which companies will succeed based on their ability to leverage financial, human, natural, behavior, cognitive, and network capital.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2018
yangleephoto/Multi-bits/Getty Images. The shadow sector, or informal economy, includes everything from illicit sidewalk sales of counterfeit handbags to large corporations that evade taxes and ignore regulations. It makes up a substantial portion of the global economy. The OECD estimated in 2009 that 1.8 billion workers participated in this sector, generating over $10 trillion in goods and services.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2018
Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. Imagine that the next time you see your doctor, she says you have a life-threatening disease. The catch? A computer has performed your diagnosis, which is too complex for humans to understand entirely. What your doctor can explain, however, is that the computer is almost always right. If this sounds like science fiction, it’s not.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2018
Lee Powers/Getty Images. One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. Both have advantages. Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire.
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