CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

As is always the case when writing my blogs, I hope that this information inspires you to think more about not only what you do but why you do it. in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012. This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%). Click here for more information on Economist: Smart SMBs Fine-Tuning the Engines of Growth. Complimentary Resource – Going Green With Content Management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved. At best, it can manage costs.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

“It’s a new financial world on the verge of a complete reorganization,” said Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Equity Markets in Jersey City, New Jersey. Name and address information required. .” Nonetheless, when the crisis hit in the Fall 2008, the financial world seemed to be blind-sided.

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Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 70

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.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

The study explores net growth in private-sector business establishments from 2001 to 2012, ranking the best and worst states for new establishments post-recession and shedding light on national trends. The number of private-sector business establishments grew just 2 percent from 2009 to 2012 after growing 12 percent from 2001 to 2007.

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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? McNulty et al.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Information governance is not IT''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. But it should be the CIO''s job.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Our data suggests that employees overwhelmingly support the notion of employer-provided issue and political information. Employees not only want more information from their employer about issues that affect their livelihoods, they tend to believe their employers over other sources. And employees trust what their employers tell them.

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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. Morphis' 238 Twitter followers were privy to insider information — a big SEC no-no. It tweeted. "We

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. 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. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Price competition hurts.

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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.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Alternatively, it could be that because of behavioral biases, management is not able to select effective directors as well as an algorithm.

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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.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

But where we've lost the plot is that we only demand — and manage — a return on financial capital. We will also convene a forum for CEOs and accountants to discuss and develop large-scale solutions for finance and reporting and are exploring the possibility of developing a world-class training program for CFOs on sustainability.

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Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 9

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. Employers increasingly focus on employee wellness, on one side, and disease management, on the other. A third signal is that health care financing is testing these pathways too. What Business Are We In?

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

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.".

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Price Committee Sports Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

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. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

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% A unique driver of diagnostic errors where physicians and nurses are scarce is the lack of access to clinical information.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Globalization Mayo 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.

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Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

While activism takes many different forms, it usually begins with investors holding private conversations with company management on the need to change a process, business model, or management practice. Why would managers choose to respond to investors’ requests on immaterial issues if doing so decreases financial value?

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Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 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.

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Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

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.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 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. Suspicious that off-rampers might take time off again, coworkers are often resentful when they return, and managers marginalize them in dead-end project work. In short, on-ramping is easy in India.

Career 8

Career Maturity Survey Education 8

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.

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Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become. But I haven’t.

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Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. There’s a common bias that psychologists call the fluency heuristic: We prefer information that is processed more easily, or fluently, judging it to be truer or more beautiful.

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Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He’s not a Steve Cohen , pushing at the edges of legality to get an information edge. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2012 it was $1.9 Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company. Icahn won that playground tussle.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

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 requires an end to systemic inequities by opening up processes, information - and markets. Breakthrough Finance. Breakthrough Activism.

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EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance' This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

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. Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Does biology inform business? The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management. In 2012 she announced to all the employees a re-expression as “ The HP Way Now.”

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

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. We should also question the assumption that investor preference for quick returns limits managers’ ability to invest in the future.

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Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. Social exchange not only grounds women but it also allows them to share information and solutions to the common problems they face.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

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

Report 8

Report CIO Crisis Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

This pact follows a February 2012 agreement between B of A, Citi, JPM, Wells Fargo and Ally with State Attorneys General and federal authorities to pay $26 billion for similar failings. billion to homeowners. Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g. Ally Financial and HSBC Holdings).

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Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8