Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. Index funds, meanwhile, are a cause of heated debate.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009).

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Culture Financial Leadership Deloitte 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Leaders with a passion for developing employees’ skills, and those who understand the need to transfer knowledge among generations of workers, know how important it is to link in-house education to strategic planning. Helping mentors pass along their expertise more effectively and helping mentees learn more efficiently.

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Development Education Engineering Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Although economists have long focused on policies that promote the acquisition of human capital through education, the efficient allocation of the resulting talent is just as important. Our data shows, for instance, that 18% of multimillionaires work in finance, while only 1% of them are professors and scientists. In the U.S.,

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Policies Talent Government Research 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Yet for the regular knowledge worker, Microsoft Excel, 30 years on, remains the go-to product for people looking to make sense of data. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, maintains that Excel is still the one Microsoft product that stands above the rest — and 750 million knowledge workers worldwide support that claim every day.

Data 46

Data Productivity Tools Finance 46

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Doctorpreneurs have three important qualities: Medical excellence: First and foremost, doctorpreneurs are excellent doctors, with first-rate education and training. We call these individuals “doctorpreneurs,” and believe they are key to fixing the problems of the health care industry.

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Healthcare Case Study Case Studies Training 31

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

ICT has offered new ways of exchanging information and transacting business efficiently and cheaply. The productivity gain from ICT in Africa is unprecedented, and unlike other transformative technologies, like the steam engine and aircrafts, ICT remains a low-hanging application that the locals could participate in on the creative side.

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Telecommunications Banking Knowledge Base Data 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand. According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up. Adding Humans to the Mix.

Engineering 30

Engineering Training Training Analysis 30

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. Don’t optimize for efficiency.

Metrics 46

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 46

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. So, it’s not about laziness as doing nothing but about the so-called “productive laziness” that allows people to be productive and at the same time maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Management 11

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2018

Most inquiries from other departments — engineering, finance, product, marketing — are relatively simple requests that anyone with basic training could fulfill. Depending on the data tools your organization uses, though, a variety of educational programs, both online and in person, can get your team up to speed. (Of

Data 28

Data Tools Education Government 28

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development.

Software 28

Software Industry Education Information Technology 28

Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

Pencil manufacturing in the US at the time was extremely competitive, with many pencil “products” lacking the reliably fine-point consistency we are accustomed to today. which transforms business consultants, CEOs, attorneys, finance experts and other business leaders and their companies into published “thought leaders.”

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Case Interview Conference Travel Study 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. As a large team cares for patients, clear and efficient pathways for communication and workflows are necessary to ensure the patient experience is as seamless and organized as possible.

Metrics 30

Metrics Efficiency System Development 30

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Self-driving cars will force over three thousand truck drivers to seek new forms of employment, and robotic production lines like Tesla’s will continue to eat away at manufacturing jobs, which are currently at 12 million and falling. We’ve accepted that machines can do these types of tasks efficiently.

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Emotional Intelligence Course Data Financial 50

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Agile Sales Operations 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Consumer Fraud and Product Liability. Many former employees go on to programs in business, finance, economics and law. These skill development tools will not only make you a more efficient worker, but will also show initiative and help move you up the ladder more quickly. Accounting. Antitrust and Competition. Data Analytics.

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Interviews Research Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services).

Operations 28

Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2014

Holding down costs of non-tradeables like housing, health care and education is the key to economic competitiveness and sustainable growth. Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. It increases growth potential through higher efficiency.

Information Technology 74

Information Technology Information Technology Financial Policies 74

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

An ERP system is an enterprise business management software program that organizes and tracks large company’s resources (cash, raw materials, production capacity, etc.) It helps facilitate error-free transactions and production (before ERP, people actually used odd things like pens, paper and ledgers to keep track of their stuff).

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. Enter data and analytics, which provide an opportunity for such innovation.

Operations 28

Operations Chemicals Data Agile 28

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them.

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McKinsey Engineering Enterprise Research 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Nonetheless, even those parts of care that could be freed from the doctor’s office remain tied to it, with schedules optimized for doctors’ productivity rather than what’s best for the patient. Even if it were easy to provide patients with clear feedback and education, it might not get us far. Provider workload.

How To 28

How To Insurance Insurance Travel 28

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. But in April, just after U.S.

Engineering 29

Engineering Talent Information Technology Information Technology 29