Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". These tradeoffs can be particularly consequential in large financial institutions, such as huge employee incentives for financial performance combined with poor risk management practices. Finance Sustainability SASB'

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The genius in Singapore’s health-care system is that each individual’s stake in health-care financing is clearly visible. Offer plans that align incentives, and help employees understand them. Copayments, deductibles, coinsurance, and tiered pricing are designed to give consumers incentives to make lower-cost decisions.

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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. In 2011, Vice President Biden and former U.S. And there is incentive for banks to lend towards the higher end of the scale. Finance Hiring Small/medium business'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

And if you succeed by learning to be politically correct in an organization what is the incentive to be anything else? Unfortunately that belief remains in tact, often lurking undistinguished in the background, as people rise up the corporate ladder.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Employee incentives. You clearly have a different point of view on distributions to shareholders. I disagree with this priority. That’s just 2.1%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Worse still, equity-holders often have risk-taking incentives out of line with the interests of other bank stakeholders, much less society. In 2011 — a bad year for trading — investment banking generated just $4.6 billion of Goldman's $28.81 billion in net revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

But the move to SaaS comes with considerable challenges: Firms will need to change their structure , sales culture, and incentives , and convince existing as well as new customers of the new offering’s value. For example, consider Zynga’s decision, announced in 2011, to build its own datacenters.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has given hospitals, physicians, and other providers incentives to form accountable care organizations (ACOs), with responsibility for outcomes and costs held by a single entity rather than diffused across independent providers.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

PayPal ate the costs of fraud and emphasized rapid growth by simplifying transactions and incenting participants to attract others. Before the iPhone launched in 2007, HP dominated the handheld calculator space for science and finance. By 2011, its PlayStation had become the best-selling game console of all time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Even conservative calculations of principal foregone, extra servicing costs on re-defaulted loans, and compliance and training amount to almost five percent of expected 2011 originations. According to our estimates, the costs of the proposed settlement are astronomical.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

The book draws the best thinking from numerous disciplines, including marketing, economics, and finance, to deliver a comprehensive presentation that comes alive through numerous case studies, memorable examples, and graphs. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. To read Tim’s complete biography, click here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). Here, everyone in the network is an equity holder who has an incentive to increase the value of the network.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. This provision was extended through 2011. Implements a payroll tax holiday for workers in 2011. In 2011, workers will pay 4.2% Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011. .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Murray, the CEO of Murray Energy, hosted two fundraising events for Republican presidential candidates: one for Rick Perry on September 29, 2011 and one for Mitt Romney on May 3, 2012. Firms and CEOs clearly have an incentive to affect political outcomes. Let’s look at one example: In 2012 Robert E. In fact, 95.5%

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

_After all, culture is defined by the behaviors that are incented and repeated inside your company. Culture is left to the human resouorces department, or just happens as a consequence of the company policies and practices. _I wrote a post on my experience on this topic a couple months back.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. The ACA legislation addressed this by establishing different financing models.

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