Coaching Tip

JANUARY 4, 2011

Go visit some other businesses, both in your industry and outside of it. So, get started as soon as possible in 2011, and try to have the major kinks worked out of your new strategy by the beginning of 2012. Instead, you can resolve in 2012 to refine your new business model and harvest a higher levels of growth and profits. .

Innovation 113

Innovation Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 113

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. In 1995 , nine out of the top 10 industries that received 85% of private equity funding were U.S.-based based labor.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Houston energy magnate Dan Duncan who died earlier this year had an estimated net worth of $9 billion, and television industry mogul John Kluge died with a $6.5 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. billion estate.

Press Release 202

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

” History was not on Mr. Maxwell’s side, nor with his attempts to reform the financial industry a few years later. In the 19th century, banking was the most profitably industry in America, and incumbent banks fought hard to protect their profits. Why was an insurance company doing a bank’s work?

Insurance 52

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

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

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. PE’s proponents say this disparaging view doesn’t add up.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Foreign Policy reports in this intriguing list of the 10 most overlooked stories of 2012. And the bottom dropped out of the Indian outsourcing industry, which contracted as much as 80% while the Indian firm Aegis outsourced its call center — to Dallas. All of which points to a 2013 that looks nothing like 2012. Stay tuned.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing GDP Bottom-up Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work. The company’s embrace of the industrial Internet has greatly affected many of its core businesses.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

No industry is failing faster than retail. In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Prasatporn Nilkumhaeng/EyeEm/Getty Images. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. P&G should follow suit.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. Early Struggles. The Turnaround.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. It isn’t only the branded pundits who are neglecting these issues.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A Rise Fueled by Subsidies. Last year, China overtook the U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Health care is attracting an influx of talent from other industries to tackle some of its toughest problems. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

overall, our studies consistently and conclusively show employed voters believe (43% in 2008, 52% in 2010) their employer "should be active in promoting public policies favorable to their industries." In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc., And I don't see a problem in that.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 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. In 2008, TURCK, a leading manufacturer in industrial automation with 500 employees in the U.S., Make it personal.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Goldman Sachs did something it had never done in its venerable 143-year history. For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. In the financial industry, all static content (such as Facebook and LinkedIn profiles) requires documented pre-approval before posting. It tweeted. "We

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

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

MAY 21, 2015

Recent developments, such as falling solar panel prices and increases in efficiency rates (the rate at which sunlight hitting panels is turned into usable energy), have made distributed energy increasingly economical, while new business models and financing methods have made it more accessible. from 2012 through 2014.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

energy industries, from oil and gas to ethanol, wind, and solar, have long enjoyed lavish government subsidies and other support. Ending ethanol subsidies is a step in the right direction, as is president Obama's call to end the $4 billion annual tax breaks and subsidies unfairly benefiting the oil and gas industry.

Energy 10

Energy Price Long-term Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Furthermore the non-financial parts of reporting today are not rule-based, making it impossible to compare performance across industries — and many times even within them. This post is based partly on a speech Peter Bakker gave at The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Forum on December 13, 2012.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. In successful cases like these, CFOs have had to reorient their roles as the “gate-keeper” of a company’s finances. Paint a compelling future vision of your industry ecosystem grounded in emerging customer needs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. A third signal is that health care financing is testing these pathways too. What do we need to move from a product-oriented industry to a customer-oriented one? What Business Are We In? bankruptcy court.

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

companies during the period 1998-2012. We measured performance using the company’s return on assets, adjusted for the company’s industry and size. In two recent studies, my co-authors and I looked at the relation between director stock ownership and company performance for the largest U.S.

Incentives 11

Incentives Proposal Committee Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

.” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

Consider the data just released in this week's " Crowdfunding Industry Report" from www.crowdsourcing.org. The April 2012 report estimates that 452 crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) raised nearly $1.5 billion in 2012. billion in 2011, and that funding volume is on track to nearly double to $2.8 will not be legalized until 2013).

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

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. Schulze, and Michael H. McNulty et al. One of the architects of the survey, Mark Scott, is also one of its beneficiaries.

CAPM 13

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

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. In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5 million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 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.

Execution 9

Execution P&L CEO COO 9

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. Customers could flee to less closely monitored entities outside of regulated industries.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

These techniques are rapidly changing many industries — could they also improve corporate governance? We found that firms tend to choose directors who are much more likely to be male, have a large network, have a lot of board experience, currently serve on more boards, and have a finance background. Could technology help?

Company 9

Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions. Third, CEOs’ reputations — their public personas — affect company valuations and stock prices. .”

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

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. Less so for financial institutions or healthcare companies. SASB uses the U.S.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

At the current rate, 2012 will easily see more disputes than in the two previous years combined. This amounts to a revival of the industrial policy that has been pooh-poohed for decades in the US, the UK, and much of the English-speaking world. The number of trade disputes launched at the WTO this year would suggest no.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. In the media and internet industries, it turns out to be very important when operating in China.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10