Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For example, they use online marketplaces to reduce the search costs for willing lenders to find creditworthy borrowers. In the high flying days of 2005-2007, banks around the country relied heavily on these scores to make quick decisions on millions of uncollateralized small business loans, with disastrous results.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Globally, many countries are doing the same — for example, Chile pays overseas entrepreneurs to come visit for six months through its Start-Up Chile program , as a way to build global bridges and foster an entrepreneurial culture at home. We have merged in data on the firms backed by VC financing. Here are some key findings: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008. Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. election?

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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. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Large pools of capital have been funding risky ventures since antiquity (for example, when the wealthy Marcus Crassus backed an upstart Roman general named Julius Caesar). In response, they can choose to participate in more deals or bigger deals.

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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. And consider the example of Jeffery W.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

The recent history of Uber reads like a Shakespearean tragedy, and there are plenty of opinions about where the company went wrong and what it needs to do going forward. of employment in 2005 to 9.6% For example, about one-third of construction workers in the U.S. This equated to an average of more than 8.5 weeks of earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. Unlike at commercial companies, there was no senior leader who could mandate changes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For example, they use online marketplaces to reduce the search costs for willing lenders to find creditworthy borrowers. In the high flying days of 2005-2007, banks around the country relied heavily on these scores to make quick decisions on millions of uncollateralized small business loans, with disastrous results.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

The best investment a company can make? What's standing in the way of finance might just be banks — who, not content with blowing up the economy, getting bailed out to the hilt, and poisoning prosperity, are back to paying themselves mega-bonuses for doing all the above, instead of allocating resources productively.

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Health Care Long-term Finance Education 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. A few commodity agreements were signed, for example in sugar and rubber. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

Every single person in the organization possesses “pure imagination&# , and a leader would be remiss not to encourage, and then tap into, that collective brain power. ( A personal example: I’ve lost count of the ideas we’ve implemented from teammate suggestions across our entire employee base ).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The quickening pace extends to firms’ lifespan; we found that companies’ lifespans decreased substantially in each new decade of listing from the 1960s. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

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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. states have passed new corporate forms legislation in recent years, including Low Profit Limited Liability Companies, Benefit Corporations, and Flexible Purpose Corporations. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. While the identity of the interviewed firms is confidential, it is easy to find similar examples from publicly available accounts in other firms.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital.

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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. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. However, classifications were mostly clear.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The best-performing companies seem to be pulling away from the rest, according to a growing body of research, and that fact explains a large part of the growth in inequality between individuals. And if you care about addressing inequality, you have to consider why companies rise and fall. For an extreme example, take Chobani.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Every organization wants to create a culture that works from a set of core values, where everybody is on the same page about what’s important, where the company is going, and how it’s going to get there. But what happens when the external competitive environment — and the direction of the company — changes?

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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. For example, Shiller was saying that since 1996.’”]. It was the form in which the asset was financed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. tech companies. By many measures, the UK is ahead of the others in terms of its digital foundations and sophistication; for example, the proportion of retail in the U.K. billion in 2014.

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