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. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The 2011 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households , released last month, is a valuable example of policymakers collecting data to support evidence based policy making. have an account, but choose to use some non-bank money orders (e.g., have an account, but choose to use some non-bank money orders (e.g.,

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Survey Banking Finance Bond 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” A plan helps detail how the opportunity is to be seized, what success looks like, and what resources are required, and it can be key to the investment decisions of angel investors, banks, and venture capitalists. Better-financed startups are more likely to succeed. entrepreneurs over a six-year period (2005 to 2011).

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Planning Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance 14

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

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The 2011 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households , released last month, is a valuable example of policymakers collecting data to support evidence based policy making. have an account, but choose to use some non-bank money orders (e.g., have an account, but choose to use some non-bank money orders (e.g.,

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Survey Banking Finance Bond 8

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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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The initial cash needs to come from revenues, not financing. A husband-wife team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has built an e-commerce business selling cable organizers and closed 2011 at $16 million. A husband-wife team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has built an e-commerce business selling cable organizers and closed 2011 at $16 million.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. The United States has its own money because the Federal Reserve can — and will — print unlimited dollars to avert sovereign default or rescue banks. It can beg the European Central Bank to lend it money. The ECB will not promise to lend Spain enough money to rescue banks or prevent sovereign default.

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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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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

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

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. China Economy Finance' to 8% growth rate.". When that happens, growth tends to slow.

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

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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GDP Banking Bond Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

What this is really about, said Audrey Choi, head of global sustainable finance at Morgan Stanley, is “redefining how mainstream investment managers understand risk.” As Andrew Haldane and Richard Davies of the Bank of England documented in 2011 , “[c]apital market myopia is real. It may be rising.”

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Finance Discount Report Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

Furthermore, I understand all too keenly the complexities of determining a fair valuation for companies that are too early in their development to fit existing measurement standards and can't meet the criteria for standard bank or SBA funding. billion in 2011, and that funding volume is on track to nearly double to $2.8

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Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

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. We know we were sloppy. We know we were stupid.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

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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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. And it was during Drew's absences, according to a richly detailed account in The New York Times , that the bank's chief investment office, which she ran, began to get into trouble: The morning conference calls Ms.

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Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

One of the most memorable moments was listening to an executive of a British bank rescued by the government, who told his audience that the economic crisis had been a breakthrough moment in his career. One day, it will form the basis of a masters in finance, and you should all grasp this opportunity to learn with open hands."

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Leadership Crisis Banking Learning-by-Doing 15

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., Sidian Bank in Kenya has a similar program. However, there are signs that this is changing.

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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?

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Metrics Open-book Long-term Comparison 12

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Sweeping reforms by Wall Street and the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) are needed, forcing firms to separate their investment banking business from their stock advisory business. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

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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Report CIO Crisis Committee 8

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Andrew Haldane, the Bank of England official whose speeches I recently praised to the heavens , has an excellent explanation of why highly leveraged financial institutions probably shouldn't be controlled by shareholders with limited liability: [F]or banks, equity is a vanishingly small fraction of their balance sheet.

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Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Secondly, they are global instruments — not national ones — and they are funded using bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies that are not controlled by any central authority or bank. It’s now worth approximately $1,1200 per bitcoin.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

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.

Company 9

Company Banking Restructuring Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The largest businesses are able to secure financing with relative ease and on strong terms, including historically low interest rates. It’s not that the banks aren’t lending. Banks actually increased large business loans (defined by the FDIC as loans over $1 million) by 23% from 2007 (pre-recession) to 2012 (post-recession).

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Banking How To Finance Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. The battles may be over, but the war is just beginning.

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GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

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

JULY 29, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Avery is the CEO of a trucking company, Louis runs a bank, et cetera. It was high time, she thought, that J.P. sprang to her defense. What exactly is Sid doing wrong?” Betsy asked.

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Case Study Real Estate CFO Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8