Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The answer is simple: uncertainty about the future. Not uncertainty over Obamacare, or "regulation," or any of the other bêtes noires of moment, but uncertainty over the lack of demand in an economy whose consumers and producers are paying back debt. After all, who opens a factory in the middle of a recession?

Short-term 10

Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

The company came from nowhere into a rental car business dominated by giants such as Hertz and Avis, creating a new market of by-the-hour rentals. They want data, even though data on non-existent markets is inherently fictional. Start-ups create new markets, or they struggle for oxygen.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

After five years of heady growth in Peru, many experts say the country's economy will slow down sharply in the future because of political uncertainty. The hospital has operating rooms, clinical laboratories, a pharmacy, and provides an array of services, from diagnostics to surgery.

Innovation 14

Innovation Market Segmentation Price Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For many companies, a shrinking middle class means a shrinking top line, as their traditional consumer base migrates to the lower end of the market. For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 Census Bureau, a record 46.2 million Americans are now living below the poverty line, as more and more people fall out of the middle class.

Brand 12

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point. If the owner of that subsidiary discounts profits in Egypt by 12.5

NPV 12

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, when customers expressed a desire for more time with sales associates, Journelle reorganized its operations and stripped away all non-customer facing activities (e.g. The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012. inventory counting) from sales staff.

TSR 15

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” Henrik Bunge is one such leader. “Take a football player.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Fortitude – tolerance for stress, uncertainty, or chaos.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, when customers expressed a desire for more time with sales associates, Journelle reorganized its operations and stripped away all non-customer facing activities (e.g. The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012. inventory counting) from sales staff.

TSR 8

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. The stock market is down 25%.

Ethics 61

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 61

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. Businesses of all sizes are besieged with opportunities, competing information sources and large amounts of uncertainty. There is a sense that company operations are out of control.

Strategic Planning 84

Strategic Planning Advertising Consultative Planning 84

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. Her attitude of retaining only good followers resulted in the loss of numerous well-experienced and efficient people.

Leadership 420

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. Businesses of all sizes are besieged with opportunities, competing information sources and large amounts of uncertainty. Sales or marketing support. Political fund raising.

Strategic Planning 71

Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 71

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring, when a generation found its voice on the streets of Tunis and Cairo. It saw 5% annual growth for nearly a decade before the global recession, and the International Monetary Fund reports that it's growing strongly again — about 5% in 2011.

Class 14

Class Globalization Survey Cooper 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

When Caesars Entertainment, a gaming company, reorganized operations in 2011, the senior team not only developed a database on the performance and the potential of the company’s top 2,000 managers but also analyzed the ability of the top 150 to take on new and different jobs.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

It’s a cliché to say that the world is more uncertain than ever before, but few realize just how much uncertainty has increased over the past 50 years. That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. Although uncertainty is accelerating, it isn’t affecting all industries the same way.

Uncertainty 19

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 19

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

Resources 89

Resources Innovation GDP Education 89

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

The uncertainty that business leaders face today is palpable. On one hand, there are wars, terror, market crashes, bailouts, budget crises, cliffs, and sequesters. This is part of the reason that the stock market, which used to move a fraction of a percent each day, now shifts in record swings with increasing volume.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8