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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, marketing wants to clearly quantify the impact of its long-term branding efforts while finance is more focused on macro-economic drivers of marketing performance, such as interest rates, employment levels, inflation and retail sales. Inside Intel. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

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CEOs Must Engage All Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 It has resulted in positive cash flows, occupancy of over 90%, and higher levels of customer and employee satisfaction in 2010. billion were within the balance sheet, rising 7% versus the average of 0.5%

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