Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Read on for some innovation inspiration from companies that found ways to make their customers take notice – while sticking with their values: The Difference Maker: Buc-ee’s The Dared to Be Difference: Banking on bathrooms. In the first quarter of 2010 alone, they acquired 1.4 There has never been a better time to be different.

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Wilde Tactics Advertising Brand 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

It's co-authored with a couple new colleagues of his at the Bank of England (one a former tax lawyer , the other a physicist ), and scores higher than average on the Haldane wonkiness scale. Which is an interesting thing for the executive director of financial stability at the Bank of England to be doing.

Banking 12

Banking Long-term Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. The IMF, ECB, and EU own the rest. So what about that debt?

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

I tend to care about prices: Will this merger affect my monthly wireless bill? Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. And because the CPI cannot easily account for increases in call quality , this index understates the true decrease in the quality-adjusted price of wireless telephony.

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Wireless Price Marketing Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor — the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid — you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low profit margins, and high sales volumes. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S. It was laid down by C.K.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality. To monitor this ratio, the Portland law will make use of data that, beginning in 2017, U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Drew quickly retired after the losses, and Iksil and Macris are, according to news reports, leaving the bank.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Whom we hire, how we manage, and whom we fire have far greater impacts on results than the things we usually think of as driving success. This should be obvious to all of us; after all, decisions don’t just materialize from the ether, ready to be executed on by managers sitting in a conference room primed to act.

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Content Engineering Education Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The unbanked pay four times more in fees to access their money than those with bank accounts, and they pay $4 higher fees per month for cash access on average than those with formal financial services. For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. By FDIC estimates, 8.2%

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Cost Transportation Banking Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Instead, you can rethink what it means to be in the retail-banking business, or the industrial-distribution business, or the office-cleaning business. Doyle became CEO in 2010, after some troubled years , when the company’s growth was slow and its stock price was stuck, a lame $8.76

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CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization. .’s branded generic-medicine unit in India for $3.7 Why do I need five in India?”

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else. But haven't we heard this before?

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Now the best description might be, “giant bank account with a company attached.” Then, after a few of those investors ousted co-founder and CEO Ev Williams in a boardroom coup late in 2010, Twitter raised another $1.2 As I write this, the company’s stock price is down 44% from its peak last December.

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Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

In a 2010 survey, for example, only 25% of French employers said they were "strongly interested in hiring mothers," and 41% feared there would be "less flexibility in the schedules of mothers who worked" (they didn''t have this fear when it came to men). What''s a Fair Price for Medical Services? It’s called price-fixing.”

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Committee Content Price Organizational Behavior 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

inch disk drives; LCD vs. CRT television; online vs. brick-and-mortar banks). Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

For example, in 2010, Microsoft —one of the world’s best product innovators for the last two decades — launched a social phone called Kin. Anytime, Anywhere” banking has become the price of entry as providers strive to meet the need of large and diverse customer bases. The innovation mindset isn’t just about product innovation.

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Innovation Productivity Products Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010. This is exactly what happened during 2010 and 2011 as the global economy was bouncing back.) automobile industry. The China-Sparked Crisis.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

But plan to raise your prices sooner rather than later. ” A professional can advise you on whether it makes sense to incorporate, how to save in taxes, and how to manage all of your expenses. Karen Schwichtenberg was working at a global management consulting firm, and although she loved the work, she felt constricted.

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Succession How To Consultative Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In banking, Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bancorp also announced pay increases for minimum wage employees. Looking closer at the period following the financial crisis, 2010 to 2014, we find that weak demand played a key role in the recent productivity growth decline to historic lows. percentage points. in 2014 to 2020.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. Executive education students at Harvard Business School. Times are tough for many businesses, yet some are holding their own, even thriving.

Education 10

Education Execution Content Cooper 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Homeownership and retirement funds: Job hoppers pay a high price in home equity and retirement accounts. Stability is also appealing to banks--lenders look more favorably on prospective borrowers who've held consistent jobs for a minimum of two years, and preferably more. Now the employees and management own the company.

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Long-term Execution Incentives Banking 12

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. 3) That your intern can manage your content strategy. This is not 2010, a lot has changed over the past couple of years. No answer) 56.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. Unless the new administration in the UK manages to work out some form of a deal on immigration and work permits with the EU, its digital industries will be hobbled by a talent shortage and a steeper cost disadvantage. billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 11

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

No such caution in continental Europe, where a "one size fits none" monetary policy by an independent central bank that cannot act as a true lender of last resort and a Brussels-imposed fiscal straightjacket that has not served a single euro member state well reign the day. Britain), saw a much quicker recovery in the 1930s.

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Crisis Policies Banking Politics 12