Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. In total the iTulip community led the round with $2 million in January 2012.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

Looking to increase the homeownership rate and “foster affordable housing,” the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department issued regulations that required 55% of all government sponsored entities (GSEs) to purchase “affordable” loans from banks, either directly or through packaged MBS.

Insurance 51

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I recently published research from the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project , comparing Wharton’s Classes of 1992 and 2012. It’s worth noting that these percentages are essentially the same for both men and women, both in 1992 and in 2012. mean at the time — the average 2012 graduate planned to have only 1.7.

Policies 10

Policies Health Care Education Career 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20 ) that "accountants would save the world." The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), where I am president, is taking steps to address this. But I meant it. Why accounting?

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. How can that be when the same information about the stock's underlying company and markets are available to both? Yeh, William S.

CAPM 13

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Government-led measures to reform health care such as the HITECH Act, which infused billions of dollars into improving the sector’s use of information technology, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), create a business case for performance improvement that never existed before. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

While Medicare has led the development of bundles in the U.S., HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. What does a healthcare system look like that earns one of these contracts?

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Given that most developing countries do not record medical errors, the global magnitude of the problem is not well documented. The data that is available, such as a 2012 study of over 15,000 patient records from 26 African and Middle Eastern hospitals, produce alarming results: 6.8%

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Globalization Mayo 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. Startups, on the other hand, aren’t debt financed, because they’re too risky and unproven, and have no assets—not so appealing to lenders. Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

We have developed a framework to help boards make decisions concerning corporate political spending — decisions that are informed; consistent with company strategies, policies, and values; and that mitigate risks as much as possible. million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. Finance Global business Technology' Less than 30% of the population have bank accounts, and even fewer have credit cards.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

This basic question — now made immediate with the opening of the election season in the Iowa caucuses — raises dilemmas for boards and business leaders: Should we adopt detailed governance rules or keep decisions informal and in a small group? 5,000 per election).

Company 12

Company Politics Policies Proposal 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Failure to engage developers. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 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.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. and Canada, for example, have already established rules for some commercial drone activities, giving their start-ups the opportunity to develop new applications and businesses while U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. Yes, we are entrusting employees with sensitive and confidential information.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

US business already are spending heavily on research and development – data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) even shows an uptick in US business investment in R&D. Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm. However, not all investments are equal.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. Does biology inform business? When Satoshi later developed an interest in video games, he saw a way to recreate his childhood experience of catching and collecting elusive creatures. It’s happened before.

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

A few months earlier, Avon had informed us that they no longer intended to do the events with us. There was no time to raise the capital we needed to finance the events' annual cash flow needs. On August 23, 2012, I walked into our headquarters — a spectacularly creative facility that we had just moved into a few months earlier.

Teamwork 14

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

To gain further insights into the sustainability and financial outcomes associated with shareholder advocacy efforts, Jody Grewal, Aaron Yoon, and I analyzed 2,665 shareholder proposals submitted between 1997 and 2012 in a new paper. SASB uses the U.S.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda. Breakthrough Finance. Breakthrough Activism.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results. But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. But a market never buys anything. Only customers buy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.” billion, or 17% of settlements, in 2012. John Fund, Inc. ,

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the summer of 2012, the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Hospital recruited me to be its inaugural chair. To share ideas and avoid redundancies, members rotated among the subcommittees, which had the power to propose process solutions, engage frontline providers, and develop concrete plans within one to two weeks.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As Amar Bhide said in " Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups " (a 20-year-old HBR article that is an uncanny precursor to today's "lean startup" meme), traditional business planning processes are less relevant to bootstrappers — where resilience trumps planning and energy trumps experience. In short, the business plan is overrated.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Planning Taylorism Taylor 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of equity capital for startups is one of a handful of jewels in the crown of the JOBS Act that swept through the House and Senate in a rare and refreshing show of bipartisanship, and was signed into law by President Obama April 5, 2012. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding. Crowdfunding of debt can work.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. The second company is Fiat Chrysler, which introduced the Dodge Dart compact in 2012 with great fanfare, and even greater expectations. In the U.S.,

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

She’d been talking to the head of a Colorado engineering company that developed pumping systems used in hydraulic fracturing—fracking—and wanted to expand into making the polymers, emulsions, and surfactants the industry relied on. Ethics Finance' Twin Debates. Neitha had been the one to solicit the first problematic loan application.

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Assuming the opt-in take up rate of 25.1%, as reported in my 2012 research with Ehud Peleg and Richard Thaler, that’s an under-statement of more than five million participants (75.4 Consumers make more informed choices when they have the right information at the right time. million participants x 25.1 percent of plans.).

Tools 10

Tools Participative Planning Education 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. This includes clinicians, administrators, information technologists, researchers and others.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

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. The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. But in April, just after U.S.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9