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.

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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 12

Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 12

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

Followed by an Epilogue – Managing Identities within organizations. However when we talk of managing diversity, what we really manage is the myriad of conflicting identities we all carry inside. Walking through each chapter like an executive summary on stimulants, its a neat and yet articulates clearly.

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Review Books Diversity Human Resources 37

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

A story about executive compensation in the New York Times last summer reported on two brothers who allegedly earned close to $1 million a year running a nonprofit center for the developmentally disabled and used organizational funds for personal expenses. It gave them 20 days to respond. Cut to present. Why even hold the hearing?

Execution 12

Execution Letter Committee Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Even before the official opening of London 2012, a mix-up with the flag for the North Korean women's football team had organizers scrambling to resolve a diplomatic spat.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

That discord in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the chief investment office's losing trades in 2012, the current and former bankers said. Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing.

Management 10

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 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." Each requires customized risk management processes. Many people, including quite a few U.S.

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. But nobody believes that about stock prices anymore, and so executives are back to balancing competing interests — this time short-term traders vs. long-term shareholders. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere."

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Consultative Porter Management Press Release 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. million in 2012 — because of his "Whale-related" failures, and that JPM had posted a record 2012 net income of $21.3

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Report CIO Crisis Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

As she navigated through spreadsheets and dashboard screens — each created by a different person for a different purpose — the only constant was the title of the report, "2012 Actuals." Business executives are unaware of the extent to which their staffs routinely reinvent the wheel to get the information they need.

Business Intelligence 13

Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. billion in 2012. in 2012; 5.4% in 2012; 5.4%

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GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

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. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Executives who haven’t spent time in frontier markets imagine those markets are rooted in the past.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.

Politics 8

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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.

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Golden Parachute Hostile Takeover Airlines Execution 8

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

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 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.

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CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational executives are also paying attention to the country’s upcoming presidential elections. If he wins with only a narrow victory, as seems likely, his administration would have a limited mandate for populist reforms that would severely damage foreign investment flows and public finances. YOY in 2017–2018.

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Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 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.

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Goal Process Delegation Project 15

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. Tight convergence on a best practice may not be necessary, then, in this realm of management. McNulty et al.

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CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. So how are leading-edge companies evaluating the benefits and risks of rapidly evolving AI crime-fighting and risk management?

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

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. IT management' They had suspected all along that IT really doesn''t matter.

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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.”

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Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 8

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 9

Company Insurance Engineering Software 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.” But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. At that point, Alphatech’s management reassessed its strategy and sales approach.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 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 11

Price Committee Sports Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 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

JULY 23, 2013

Because no one is managing the store. According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. Unlike the world of the CFO, management and staff generally do what they like when it comes to creating and (not) disposing of information, creating a cavernous gap in accountability.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Such rules rest on the premise that if we can just structure the board properly, management misconduct can largely be prevented. GE states, “The primary role of GE’s Board of Directors is to oversee how management serves the interests of shareowners and other stakeholders.”

Company 8

Company Committee CEO Chemicals 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. To reduce the risks however, there are two steps that managers can take to make sure their firms are ready for the challenges of integration before committing to an actual deal. Odds are the answer is yes.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. hospitals from treating Medicare patients escalated sharply in 2012, when Congress included Medicare in its budget sequester, and they have remained high since. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. hospitals promises to worsen in the years ahead. The losses of U.S.

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Cost Consensus Budgeting System 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. In short, on-ramping is easy in India.

Career 8

Career Maturity Survey Education 8