Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. 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.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. 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

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. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. from 2012 through 2014. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service.

Organization 8

Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS. Assessing and mitigating internal risks.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5%

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 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. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. It was co-hosted by the Minister of Technology and included ministers from the cabinet charged with meeting the Grand Challenges IBM identified. IBM is doing something similar in data analytics. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 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. A potential barrier at the board level is that it is often considered improper for directors to become too involved in checking the day-to-day operations of a firm, even if they have the time and will to do so.

Company 8

Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

While the rest of the stock market world was still operating in terms of minutes and seconds, the HFTers (led by two Chicago-based firms, hedge-fund giant Citadel and upstart GETCO, now called KCG ) found a whole new world of profit in the milliseconds and microseconds between when orders were placed and filled. Ethics Finance Technology'

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 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. That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 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 Finance. "Biology must move from the design table to the Board table," we were told by Janine Benyus, co-founder of consultancy Biomimicry 3.8.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. 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

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.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Back in 2012, Erasmus’s CEO, Professor Hans Buller, was a huge proponent of VBHC and led the development of the organization’s 5-year VBHC strategy with one of us (Dr.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. The result : by late March 2012, Draw Something had 15 million daily players and was the Apple AppStore's #1 word game in 84 countries. Common Operating Pictures. Emergent, yes.

Team 12

Team Self-aware Media Download 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Before the iPhone launched in 2007, HP dominated the handheld calculator space for science and finance.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new product or technology sells better to all stakeholders if people can be persuaded that it will disrupt the status quo. billion), NDS (the video software provider scooped by Cisco in 2012 for $5 billion), Playtika (the gaming platform bought by Giant Interactive for $4.4 But does the evidence bear out this belief? increments.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Software Sample Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor. The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M. Think about that.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

For example, the hot technology of the moment, virtual reality (VR), was largely ignored by traditional funders after the disappointment of VR technology in the 1990s. Suddenly, virtual reality was no longer a forgotten ‘90s trend but had become a hot area of technology.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Project Diversity Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. Finance Tech industry Technology' Maybe it’s both.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. Last year, American campuses produced fewer than 56,000 graduates with the sort of qualifications sought by information technology (IT) firms.”

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

But its business was manufacturing lightweight small arms technologies, so-called LSATs, for the U.S. To get our charter, we had to demonstrate that our mission wouldn’t add significant costs or impose significant limits on our banking operations, that we wouldn’t let the mission wag the dog. Ethics Finance' government. “A

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of equity capital for startups is one of a handful of jewels in the crown of the JOBS Act that swept through the House and Senate in a rare and refreshing show of bipartisanship, and was signed into law by President Obama April 5, 2012. I have talked to crowdfunding proponents in the venture community and the US government.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13