Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. The largest 25 food and beverage companies contributed only 0.1% Set your company up for success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings. Employees get to choose which.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Company leaders have quoted and lauded Carr whenever they''ve needed to justify their hesitation to create strong, progressive IT positions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism. Companies have been paying sharply higher dividends and buying back their shares much more aggressively, he says, in order to please people like him. Set your company up for success.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team transformed Gap’s products and stores and helped the company grow faster than any other retail brand at the time. More recently, SpaceX, the rocketry and spacecraft company founded by legendary entrepreneur Elon Musk, developed its Falcon 9 launch vehicle for just over $300 million. The difference was leadership.

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Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, company-wide variables, such as culture and engagement , play a big role in determining the fate of organizations, so why should we pay CEOs so highly and obsess over which ones are the best ? Third, CEOs’ reputations — their public personas — affect company valuations and stock prices. In the U.S.

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CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything Carol J. Loomis The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow Michael Macoby The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time [.].

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Blog Review Books McKinsey 80

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

We asked them how many companies in Africa make over $100 million annually. Launching this week is the ambitious African Business Fellowship, which Masiyiwa is chairing with implementing partners the African Leadership Network and Management Leadership for Tomorrow. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Other companies including Lowe’s, Walmart, McKesson and JetBlue Airways have recently partnered with the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and Health Design Plus (HDP) to launch the Employers Centers of Excellence Network (ECEN) which helps employers identify quality providers and negotiate bundled payments.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board. Vanguard owns some 5% of most publicly-traded companies in the U.S., Activist investors waged a record number of campaigns against U.S.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The Walmart bribery scandal is one of the most closely-watched cases of alleged malfeasance by a global company. It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The 2012 batch includes CEOs sending memos explaining whose platform they think will help the organization thrive (and encouraging employees to vote accordingly, lest jobs be lost) and even one who sent his people to a rally. Unbelievably, every time, they find some. What they don't understand is that the process can work the other way.

How To 8

How To Politics Influence Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Only four percent of the CEOs in Fortune's top 1,000 companies are female and less than 20 percent of Congress is female. The Careful-What-You-Wish-For Paradox.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. Investors punish companies with a short-term orientation by applying higher discount rates to them, which increases the cost of capital for those companies.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

This escalation illustrates a significant change: highly expensive scandals across business sectors , not just in single companies, and this is reflected in the January 7th agreement by major banks to pay $8.5 In the past, some multi-company problems have been due to introduction of a detailed regulation or to a change in enforcement policy.

Finance 9

Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 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.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

And then, my company, Pallotta TeamWorks , went out of business. There was no time to raise the capital we needed to finance the events' annual cash flow needs. So, on August 23, 2002, we shut our doors, and laid off all 400 employees, including me and my entire leadership team. Ten years ago today. We would come up empty.

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Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

HR Digest

JANUARY 22, 2022

The responsibilities of a manager vary from company to company. In some organizations, managers are responsible for overseeing the performance of their employees, whereas, in other companies, managers are responsible for supervising the activities of their subordinates. Leadership. What does a manager do? Managing people.

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Management Human Resources Strategic Planning Skills 52

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 9, 2013

John Hay Whitney started the first venture capital firm, financed Gone With the Wind and Minute Maid orange juice, served as Eisenhower’s ambassador to Great Britain, and was one of America’s wealthiest men at midcentury. ” He later told me that this one comment had cost his company over one million dollars!

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CEO Open-book Magazine Middle Management 146

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. But lately it’s been looking a lot like a mature substantial, profitable company.

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Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. But in April, just after U.S.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

More than ever, it is the directors’ responsibility to determine when and how their company should engage in political activities. But do board members actually know how to provide proper oversight and help their companies navigate this perilous landscape? Consider what Aetna faced in 2012. Our contention is no.

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Politics Committee CPA Policies 8