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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites.

Organization 9

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

They might make a targeted acquisition here or there, form an alliance now and again, or license in some specialized technology, but by and large they made their own drugs, supporting big, fully staffed research labs, which they would then market themselves.

Licensing 13

Licensing Depreciation Pharmaceuticals Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. With no means to track sales, little data is available, and channels are too fragmented for companies to forecast production and distribution with any degree of accuracy. Three distinct factors are driving this transformation.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. With the rise of distributed forms of energy, such as rooftop solar power, and batteries , it’s become much more feasible to match individual demand for electricity with on-site production.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

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. In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Do you perpetuate these productivity-destroying falsehoods at your company? Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. A lesson in accurately valuing yourself -- from the stock market. by Steve W.

Blog 15

Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Investors preferred new SaaS products over product conversions and valued having a product fallback option.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. 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.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

According to Pew Internet , 55 percent of Americans said they''d used a mobile device to access the internet in 2012. Similarly, 45 percent of young adults aged 18-29 reported in 2012 that they mostly go online with a mobile device. Internal data from some finance, healthcare, and travel providers show similar mobile-only usage.

Content 10

Content Audience Marketing Strategy Report 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In this world, insurance companies will require fewer actuaries and more data scientists — individuals with the ability to mine data to tailor insurance offers to specific market segments or even individuals.

Company 11

Company Insurance Engineering Software 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. 2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 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.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

If you want to boost the productivity of your organization’s human capital, you also have to deploy those high performers effectively — put them to work so they can deliver the results they’re capable of. The team transformed Gap’s products and stores and helped the company grow faster than any other retail brand at the time.

Team 8

Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 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

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

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. Growth events were almost immediate: An entrepreneur with a line of men’s underwear entered export markets for the first time.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 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. The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings. per member per month.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

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. alone, the productivity losses of disengagement could amount to $550 million , not to mention the negative effects on employee health and well-being.

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. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

under the leadership of current CEO Wendell Weeks articulated a strategy 15 years ago of moving beyond core markets in glassware to create a future “world of displays” that positioned it for the coming ubiquity of smart phones, tablets, and televisions. Similarly, Corning Inc. Don’t worry about scaring people off.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 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. Employees, particularly those in the sales and marketing functions, need to know the rules of the road," Langford says. It tweeted. "We

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). For example, in 2012, Intel, TSMC, and Samsung — three large semiconductor manufacturers based in the U.S.,

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. The nature of disruption is changing.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 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 records).

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 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. These undergraduate students then learned the value of their college degree for their impending job market. The United States is in a pain crisis. This provided a baseline measure of pain tolerance.

Cost 8

Cost Document Finance Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.”

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 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. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have. When he bought it in 2012 it had $93 million in revenue.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

Having an excellent product and hiring the right talent is key. 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. How have we accomplished it?

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. This looks unlikely.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

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. The causes vary for this epidemic of counter-productive interference, which is threatening a long and successful policy, at least in the U.S., Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.).

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 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. Across the world, Opportunity's field operations couple our financial products with training, preventative health education, and much more.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Just under 1,000 companies account for half of the world's market capitalization, Eccles notes. Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. Breakthrough requires an end to systemic inequities by opening up processes, information - and markets.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

has renewed its product lines many times. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board. With more than two centuries of making everything from gunpowder to nylon and Tyvek, Dupont Co. Now it is being pressed to renew its governing board as well.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 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. anti-bribery, money laundering, product safety, etc.) This step aims to bring appropriate expertise (e.g.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8