Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 27, 2014

Executive coaches will be those people who can help leaders find the knowledge they need. The executive of the future will readily access thought leaders who are the experts on almost any relevant issue through a variety of print, audio, video, and electronic media. The field of executive coaching is experiencing huge growth.

360-Degree Feedback 121

360-Degree Feedback Long-term Globalization Tools 121

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

Press Release 202

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. The largest U.S. The largest U.S.

Finance 13

Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 13

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.

Execution 8

Execution P&L CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

However, very little of the research they cite was actually conducted on business executives. But, for executives, you do have such a measure – the long-run stock price. In the long run, every executive decision will eventually show up in the stock price. Clearly, for lots of jobs, no such measure exists.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Walking through each chapter like an executive summary on stimulants, its a neat and yet articulates clearly. That identity and communities of origin should change to communities of aspiration - increasingly important in the connected 2012 and beyond. Celia de Anca is a professor of Islamic finance at IE Business School in Spain.

Review 37

Review Books Diversity Human Resources 37

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

In March 2012, for example, Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi-Aventis, told an audience at the CED Life Sciences Conference that "the best people who have great ideas in science don't want to work for a big company. if you want to work with the best people, you're going to have go outside your own company".

Licensing 12

Licensing Depreciation Pharmaceuticals Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

And Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, already under fire for a fraudulent bank account scheme , has faced tough questions about his salary and the multimillion-dollar retirement package of Carrie Tolstedt, a key executive tied to the scandal. Golden parachutes such are now paid out even when executives leave amid scandal.

Golden Parachute 8

Golden Parachute Hostile Takeover Airlines Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

It's the first work week of 2012, and from what I see on Twitter, lots of folks are jumping into the New Year with a resolution or two. Get serious about making time for that work, and 2012 can be the year you achieve your most dearly held goals. Sort your list into related chunks. Review your committed tasks and cull again.

Goal 15

Goal Process Delegation Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

Others have argued that executive education programs are likely to be disrupted , as companies weigh the savings they could achieve by directing executives to MOOCs instead. At Wharton, nearly 20% of the annual revenue comes from executive education, while at Harvard Business School 26% does, and at IESE, it is nearly half.

Education 9

Education Course Class Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. Consider, too, that when threats materialize at large-scale events, the damage often spills over to other parties.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

” asked the Scandinavian executive. Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. These executives –each responsible for advising clients or deploying money in emerging markets – underestimated the number by a factor of ten.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

“We are trying to use the index to change corporate behavior,” said Mark Wiseman, chief executive of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the lead investor in the initiative. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. Similarly, Corning Inc.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

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. Big-company executives must choose to become personally more aware of new, growing companies. When he bought it in 2012 it had $93 million in revenue.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

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. This is not just good for individuals; it’s good for business. Well-being has to be woven into the very fabric of the company.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 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).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. To make sure they're comparing apples to apples, they discount those future cash flows to arrive at their net present value.

CAPM 13

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it. Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. From a strategic standpoint, they became invisible; they no longer mattered.".

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s imagine that you have recently assessed your company’s talent , and that you found plenty of high-performing executives and employees. A 2012 academic study of a large company’s front-line supervisors concluded that, as one summary put it, “The most efficient structure is to assign the best workers to the best bosses.”

Team 8

Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.".

Price 12

Price Committee Sports Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Back when economists and finance scholars believed that stock market prices were a near-perfect representation of the current value and future prospects of corporations, it seemed conceivable that following the movements of the market would steer executives right. Today some business gurus have a similar message.

Consultative 14

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change. And a new ecosystem of finance, insurance, energy, infotainment and maintenance services has emerged based on the data-driven, app economy.

Company 10

Company Insurance Engineering Software 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Many people, including quite a few U.S. But none of these was a high-profile risk officer. But was it?

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. In the past, sales reps sold to IT system administrators, but now they were conversing more with CFOs and other executives, which better positioned Alphatech to expand at accounts where it did land deals. Here’s how: Identifying good customers.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

in 2012 , the outlook is far healthier than in many mature markets of Europe and North America, fueling an ongoing war for talent. His concern is shared by a third of Asian executives in a recent survey (PDF) , who were worried about being able to attract and retain the staff they needed.

Career 8

Career Maturity Survey Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

The use of pain killers increased by 50% from 2006 to 2012 and one recent estimate put the cost of physical pain on the U.S. Asking poor people to think about their finances impairs their cognitive performance, while the rich show no change. The United States is in a pain crisis.

Cost 8

Cost Document Finance Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

billion each on buybacks and dividends, equivalent to 134% of its net income, and its executives can do up to $8.1 Rather, it is corporate executives with their stock-based compensation who benefit. .” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

The company provides services in a myriad of industries, such as health care, water treatment, aviation, and financing. This was illustrated in 2012 when Groupon’s board came under fire for the company revising its earnings. Board members often are able to provide insights that top executives may not have considered.

Company 8

Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even though banks now file 20 times more suspicious activity reports linked to money laundering than they did in 2012, AI tools have permitted them to shrink the armies of people they employ to evaluate alerts for suspicious activities.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

(Two recommendations I've gotten from Harvard government professor Dan Carpenter : Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance , by Sociologist Greta Krippner, and The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy , by political scientists Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli.).

Tversky 10

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. CIO''s must re-invigorate the vision of 1987, when the inaugural issue of CIO magazine stated that, "information is a corporate asset to be managed by a top-ranking executive." Because no one is managing the store.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Other top executives at the American Energy Innovation Council are pushing for more funding for alternative energy research. Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. The list goes on.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In the first half of 2012, thousands of merger and acquisition deals were announced globally, worth more than $900 billion. Some executives deal with this problem by hiring armies of consultants to do the heavy lifting. Are acquisitions part of your company's growth plan? Odds are the answer is yes. And this was a slow year.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. A forecast issued late in the year by The Chronicle on Philanthropy projected their collective growth at just 1 percent.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8