Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

He is an advisor to business leaders from a variety of organizations throughout the world, including major Fortune 500 companies, as well as private and nonprofit institutions in industries such as aerospace, healthcare, government, professional associations, telecommunications, and finance. Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

There are similar stories in the electronics industry, pet food, pharmaceuticals, and even national security. This regulation came as a result of concerns that the exploitation and trade of conflict minerals by armed groups was helping to finance conflict in the DRC region and contributing to its emergency humanitarian crisis.

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Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You are able to position yourself as a true thought leader in your industry, separating yourself from competitors. With a team of talented marketers, amazing creatives, and SEO experts, they create content that stands out in an industry overloaded with a content publication.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Higher pay throughout the industry helped lead to more sales, creating a virtuous cycle of growth and prosperity. After a year-long analysis of seven developed countries and six sectors , we have concluded that demand matters for productivity growth and that increasing demand is key to restarting growth across advanced economies.

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Our analysis suggests that, so far, the results have been mixed. Globally, these are industries where the state is often the sole or dominant customer. Thus, technological innovation in these sectors tends to be financed by the government and carried out within government or quasi-government laboratories. respectively.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly. At later stages (£5M+), it can come from debt and other forms of financing. The goal for the next five years is 300% growth.

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Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Founded in 2010 by Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard, the company seeks to make data science a sport, and an affordable one at that. Anyone can post a data project by selecting an industry, type (public or private), participatory level (team or individual), reward amount, and timetable. Take Kaggle , for instance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

Today he was endorsing an effort backed by the financial industry. Several times over the past couple years he has called into question the industry's most basic philosophical and financial underpinnings. 2, 2010 speech " Patience and Finance." My introduction to Haldane was his Sept.

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Banking Long-term Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Salzman says that the US graduates far more workers in Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM) than the tech industry needs and that foreign workers are causing Americans to get discouraged and join other professions. Many leave the field for other pursuits like finance and law — which sometimes pay higher wages.

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Skills Globalization Engineering Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. In most industries, disruption comes from startups. This shift is long overdue. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Just how big a problem this is for industry — and for one industry in particular — is illustrated by a recent study, which, ironically, claimed to uncover the kind of bias we don’t want to see when it comes to assessing the validity of data. But only if the PLoS study is itself true.

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Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. times global GDP).

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

The Ex-Im Bank was formed in the 1930s to help finance U.S. Today, it provides financing support to exporters or to their customers overseas, when, per its charter, private credit is not readily available (locomotives to Kazakhstan, medical supplies to Viet Nam). In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S.

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Banking Globalization Finance Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Indications are that inflation-adjusted corporate profits are probably still slightly below the levels of before the Great Recession (the Bureau of Economic Analysis doesn't adjust the main corporate profit number for inflation, because — given all the profits that flow in from overseas — it doesn't know what inflation rate to use).

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Comparison Globalization Download Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. and the competitive intensity of its industry.

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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

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. The program is most often associated with the tech industry, where H-1B workers hold about 12%–13% of jobs , according to a Goldman Sachs report. jobs overall.)

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

They have no end of theories, analysis, possible futures and "what if" scenarios. They have no end of theories, analysis, possible futures and "what if" scenarios. Whether they are analyzing the numbers, or conceiving of new directions in which to take the firm, they love to operate in the world of ideas.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

These may be difficult to discover because the picture may be blurry or the analysis may be messy. Compensation Finance Organizational culture' I don’t mean just to pick on JP Morgan—although its legal troubles have been the ones dominating headlines lately. But addressing them is essential if we actually want to change behavior.

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Banking Risk Management Constraint Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Under such conditions, decision-making is complicated even when it only requires analysis of facts. Under such conditions, decision-making is complicated even when it only requires analysis of facts. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However, the analysis shows that forcing toddlers into airplane safety belts would cost lives, not save them. However, the analysis shows that forcing toddlers into airplane safety belts would cost lives, not save them. Most young lap passengers do not have a ticket. Most young lap passengers do not have a ticket. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Then came the November 22, 2010 raids of three hedge fund headquarters by FBI agents who seized documents and confiscated BlackBerries. These events raise suspicion that many hedge fund traders may have succeeded at beating the market not through careful research and original analysis but by breaking the law.

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Hedge Ethics Incentives Environment 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

(For a discussion of the importance of deferred compensation to sound risk management and the proper purpose, scope and implementation of discretionary corporate "recovery" policies see my 2010 piece here.). Vague statements or press releases may accompany these events, rather than clear analysis.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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