Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself. If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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Banking Finance Globalization Film 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. They are eager to learn new skills and take on additional responsibilities and bigger challenges.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service. Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance? My hope in authoring this post is to have you adjust your thinking when it comes to the definition of success.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Great CEOs lead by example…they set the tone for others in the organization by demonstrating proactive, rational, logical and balanced thinking as opposed reactionary emotional thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Furthermore, if your company isn’t leveraging action learning to develop leaders, fuel innovation, foster collaboration, and catalyze growth then you are missing a substantial opportunity.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over the past two decades, data-rich companies have found their analytics teams playing the role of internal service providers. Analysts have the privilege and the obligation to ensure that their organizations fully leverage the power of their corporate data banks to propel the business forward. sascom Magazine. The translation layer.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The concepts of "serve and care" pack more deposits into the bank of trust and credibility than anything else. Sandy Morley Mike; As I am in my last 6 months as an administrator I found your article especially validating. it is about having a people connection: with students, parents, as well as staff.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Companies that score high in the Trust Index will see lower turnover and greater productivity. For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift. Dickens Jr.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. As a result of this fraud, the bank is now being investigated by Federal prosecutors and Congressional overseers. But the fallout is far from over. A blind spot among senior leaders.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

You may have another kind of track record, such as working successfully at a large company. Fast-forward to 2013: Zoho is a $200 million dollar a year company. The moral of the story is that even an entrepreneur with a smaller idea that is not fundable can build a great company. Not even any kind of bank financing.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Finance Sustainability SASB'

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Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When seeking a loan, individuals have traditionally turned to banks and loan officers, engaging in a face-to-face interaction at a local branch. These platforms facilitate the publication of loan requests, which are then funded by interested investors, whether they are individuals or companies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Factors ranging from weak demand to bank consolidation have combined to hobble many small businesses  and if these factors arent addressed, they could continue to impede U.S. And as we describe in a recent HBS Working Paper , gaps remain in traditional bank credit supply. job growth and economic security. small businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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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

JULY 9, 2012

The idea behind the latest maneuver is that recapitalizing European banks will reduce the correlation between the creditworthiness of a state's banking system and the creditworthiness of a State itself. Many countries have taken large equity stakes in their banks. And market participants were initially thrilled.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In 1968 an investor named Arthur Rock backed executives from Fairchild Semiconductor to start a new company, which would become known as Intel. Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises. Yet as Saxenian later pointed out to me, this was largely the result of a somewhat unique confluence of forces.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

From my experience investing in emerging start-ups (I'm invested in 60 right now) and launching my share of both failures (4) and highly successful (3) companies, I can attest that Mr. Isenberg is perfectly correct in his assertion that it's dangerous to expect crowdfunding of equities to work the same way crowdfunded donations do.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." HBR Press, April 2011), very few firms are truly global in the sense that their business isn't concentrated in any one spot.

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Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

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 20, 2017

Much has been made of the fact that a new breed of financial technology (or fintech) companies is unbundling banks in the developed world. Startups are attacking all of the components of the traditional bank value proposition (e.g., A number of the companies mentioned in this article are in DFS Lab’s portfolio.

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Banking Company Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

the brokerage firm formerly known as Dain Rauscher) and spent 2011 as chairman of the main securities-industry trade group, SIFMA. That thought kept coming back to me as I read John Taft's new book Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street. Taft is CEO of RBC Wealth Management-U.S. Got all that? In the U.S.,

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Metrics Open-book Long-term Comparison 12

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The report also explains the wide range of measures companies are adopting to tackle the complexity; from cutting down management layers to simplifying product portfolios and processes. The complexity challenge: how businesses are bearing up is an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report commissioned by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Crisis Survey Analysis Finance 78

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In today’s world no one wants to do business with a company that’s not connected, has no influence, isn’t engaged, and that doesn’t get it. As part of a company still trying to figure out what we bring to the table, these are some very salient ideas. It won’t do anything to help you, it will only hurt you.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I hear a lot of noise about the tough economy, and revenue being down for many companies. I hear complaint upon complaint that companies just don’t have money to spend, and that nobody is buying. It’s because you don’t get it…It’s not about you, your company, your products or your services.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. People decry the scandals and rest assured that such doings are not happening in their companies. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Henceforth these were the people's debts, issued by a national bank, the Bank of England — in return for the privilege of producing its own banknotes — on behalf of the people, to their elected rulers. I believe the analogy between national finances and insolvency is damaging. The solution is national austerity.

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Company Banking Restructuring Policies 16

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

How to Pick the Right Consultants for Your Company. Selecting the most appropriate consultant for your company and optimizing their expertise is the greatest challenge facing a decision maker. Any company or organization is like a tree. Consultants conduct programs designed by their companies, in repetitive motion.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Henceforth these were the people's debts, issued by a national bank, the Bank of England — in return for the privilege of producing its own banknotes — on behalf of the people, to their elected rulers. I believe the analogy between national finances and insolvency is damaging. The solution is national austerity.

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Company Banking Restructuring Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Hence lots of the analytical, linear thinking at GM drove him to distraction; Product Planning analysts in particular: "a department composed of recycled finance types" as he calls them in the book. Lack of growth had lowered profitability and made legacy costs like retiree health benefits and the infamous Jobs Bank devastatingly high.

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Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

These reports — one from a company task force and a second from a review committee of the board — were overshadowed by two items announced the same day: the related news that the bank board had slashed CEO Jamie Dimon's annual compensation in half — from $23 million in 2011 to $11.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

However, much of the criminal activity is now being mitigated by self-organized, crowdsourced due diligence in the community , as well as by external parties such as Smith and Crown , a research group focused on cryptofinance, and ICO Rating , a ratings agency that issues independent analytical research on blockchain-based companies.

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