Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Our data shows, for instance, that 18% of multimillionaires work in finance, while only 1% of them are professors and scientists. To evaluate these policies, we use data on the occupational choices and incomes of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

To measure all this, the researchers broke up the data (from 1999 to 2005) by industry. Entrepreneurial finance' Moreover, they estimate that the change boosted the nation’s economy by €350 million per year, at a cost of only €100 million annually.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Wouldn't it be nice, Francis Fukuyama writes in an article called " The Future of History " in the current issue of Foreign Affairs , if some "obscure scribbler. I know this because these people are constantly submitting articles to HBR. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere." Note to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. increased by over $300,000.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Economic imperialism" was the name he gave to this phenomenon (and to his article, which was published in the February 2000 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics ). Lazear acknowledged one such indicator in his article — the invasion of economics by psychological teachings about cognitive bias.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In this week's Business Week, longtime Apple watchers Brad Stone and Peter Burrows wrote an article on (what else?) In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." what would happen to Apple without Steve Jobs. Not that they're alone.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Yes, but with some caveats, according to a paper recently published in the Journal of Empirical Finance. decrease in firm value for public companies in the S&P 1500 between 1993 and 2005. Their aim is to drive out executives who are past their prime. But are such policies a good idea?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In a recent working paper , currently under review by the Journal of Corporate Finance, researchers from Monash University and LaTrobe University in Australia compared a common measure of worker treatment to patent data, and found that companies with higher worker treatment scores produced more patents, and more highly cited patents.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We have merged in data on the firms backed by VC financing. On the whole, immigrant entrepreneurship is somewhat stronger for VC-backed firms, with 31% of VC-backed founders being immigrants, compared to 25% of all entrepreneurs in 2005. Immigrant founders launch firms that are smaller than native-founded firms. workers, compared to 7.0

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. to live on the sort of shoestring budget that startups demand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

For instance, people who entered adulthood during economic depressions tend to be attuned to economic and national security throughout their adult lives , and particularly cautious with their personal and professional finances. Entering adulthood in a boom or a bust can also have implications for your behavior at work, even decades later.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

of employment in 2005 to 9.6% Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. The use of independent contracting has grown dramatically over the past decade, with one estimate suggesting it has increased by almost 40%, going from 6.9%

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

Oddly enough, the movie was financed by a food company or it would possibly never have been made at all, and in a way it’s one of the more creative marketing campaigns ever seeing as I can go to any candy store and buy Wonka candy right now. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

By 2005, Kodak ranked No. From finance and manufactured goods to farms and pharmacy, the digital revolution enabled by sensors, connectivity, and distributed intelligence will upend competitive positions and strategies across the ecosystem. It made huge investments in new technology, new plant, and new personnel. 3 globally).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

British law created the Community Interest Company in 2005, and a number of U.S. These are his words from a 1997 HBR article : Because multibillion-dollar corporations control vast resources around the globe, employ millions of people, and create and own incredible wealth, they hold the future of the planet in their hands.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Of course, the retrenchment of global finance also reflects pressure on banks from regulators and shareholders to rebuild their capital and liquidity. As European banks retreat, China is leading something of a changing of the guard in global finance. China has risen from 16th place in 2005 to 8th in 2015. And it is not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

CEOs from rival firms); conversely not all inside CEOs have it (CEOs promoted from finance). A real-world illustration of this parochialism comes from the “Organization 2005” initiative at Procter and Gamble (P&G). There are many reasons companies benefit from hiring an outsider, such as to effect change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. tax jurisdiction. Breakthrough innovations in high tech certainly have a powerful impact on performance, but they are quite rare.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It was the form in which the asset was financed. One is finance and the other is non-finance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Department of Agriculture reported that food prices rose 31% from 2005 to 2014. Brian Arthur, in his article on the Second Economy , or what he now calls the autonomous economy, estimated that, by 2025, autonomous production would produce goods and services equal to the country’s GNP in 1995, about $7.5 trillion. There are 3.5

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In 2005, he sold USI to Johnson Controls, a Fortune 100 company, and at that point, became CEO of JCI’s Global Workplace Business for the Americas. Wyn has an MBA in finance and marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. 500 company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We were founded in 2005, and our cofounders, Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield who were both already highly successful entrepreneurs, understood that any successful culture would be built on a core set of values. How do you manage the evolution of your company’s culture, and hold on to what makes you great, even as you change and grow?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. based corporations – prominent examples being Skype, founded in Estonia, acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6

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