Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The “turnaround plan” recently announced by McDonald’s includes an aggressive program to manipulatively boost its stock price via stock buybacks, an activity that has become the major focus of its corporate strategy over the past decade. ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 The winners.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 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

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 3, 2018

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” European legislation finally emerged for organic wine in 2012, allowing producers to add sulfites up to a certain maximum level.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

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 surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple. Over the past 18 months the company’s stock price has careened from $705 (in Sept.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

As long as it's subsidized, there is little pressure to compete on price. To be competitive and sustainable, alternative energy sources must ultimately match — or outperform — fossil fuels on price and performance. But those days are coming to an end.

Energy 10

Energy Price Long-term Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts. 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.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

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. Although critics have often called the stock price reductive, research shows it’s more comprehensive than the caricature.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

As a consequence, salespeople tend to sell to anyone they can, often at discounted prices to make a volume quota target. But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. Pricing guidelines were the third key factor. The Deal Profile also specified payment terms with pricing. But hope is not a method.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

companies during the period 1998-2012. We also found that directors who own more stock are more likely to discipline or fire the CEO when the stock price performance of their company has been sub-par in the previous two years. In one study, we looked at the performance of the 1,500 largest public U.S.

Incentives 11

Incentives Proposal Committee Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. increase in stock price on the announcement day. We identified a total of 359 SaaS product introduction events using the Dow Jones Factiva search tool.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 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. Third, CEOs’ reputations — their public personas — affect company valuations and stock prices. million in severance.

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

knew that firms were making heavy use of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to size up growth opportunities, but that the model was only as good as its inputs. McNulty et al. They believed managers needed a better way to come up with a number to represent their cost of capital, and that's what they were presenting.

CAPM 13

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Back when economists and finance scholars believed that stock market prices were a near-perfect representation of the current value and future prospects of corporations, it seemed conceivable that following the movements of the market would steer executives right. Today some business gurus have a similar message.

Consultative 14

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals. In 2012, when Jeff Immelt first introduced GE’s push into the industrial Internet, the company had 50,000 engineers in its workforce — mostly aeronautical, electrical, and other traditional engineers.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

In 2012, the U.S. Sovereign debtors have an ex-ante incentive to commit to greater creditor enforcement rights in order to attract more favorable financing terms. The important point, however, is that this is an ex-ante bargain between the sovereign debtor and the creditor and is priced into the financial terms of the transaction.

Bond 8

Bond Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

In the first, published in Asian Economic Papers last year, they reported a marked tendency toward slower economic growth when per capita incomes reach around $17,000 a year (in 2005 prices). China Economy Finance' Not that stuff couldn''t go wrong along the way. Eichengreen and Shin are co-authors (with Dwight H.

GDP 9

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 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. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. Similarly, Corning Inc.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. In late 2012 Geisinger initiated ProvenCare Lumbar Spine. Business development, contracting, and finance personnel are also required.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2012 it was $1.9 W]e seek to find undervalued companies in the Graham & Dodd tradition, a methodology for valuing stocks that primarily looks for deeply depressed prices.” He just argues that the CEOs and boards are for various reasons unwilling to take basic, obvious steps to raise share prices. In 2009 it was $1.3

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

This has certainly resulted in lower stock trading commissions and, in recent years, smaller “spreads” between the prices at which brokers offer to buy or sell stocks. Ethics Finance Technology' (and elsewhere) have kept pushing for more competition, lower transaction costs, and a smaller middleman’s take. But I haven’t.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 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.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 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. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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. We need true costing, true pricing, true taxing," says Ralph Thurm, Director of Deloitte Sustainability Strategies and Innovation.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development'

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

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. 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

MAY 31, 2012

A future compensation action would reduce 2012 variable benefits (bonus or equity awards) in absolute terms (or through a much slower rate of increase). This is reflected in the drop in stock price from an April high of about $45 to about $35 in late May (a market cap decline of more than $35 billion).

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 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).

Finance 8

Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

The second company is Fiat Chrysler, which introduced the Dodge Dart compact in 2012 with great fanfare, and even greater expectations. The segment was so important that Fiat Chrysler CEO Marchionne said in a 2012 interview that companies that don’t succeed with compacts are “doomed.” In the U.S.,

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. With its 2012 London Olympics sponsorship it resolved to optimize its ads in real time.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms. Narrowly focused.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 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

MARCH 31, 2016

Unfortunately, Covisint’s ownership structure and auction format heavily favored auto companies (the consumers on the platform) while forcing suppliers into fierce price competition, leaving them with little or no residual value. 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

APRIL 3, 2017

Many middle-class Americans are earning their money in a deflationary economy where wages are falling, and spending it in a traditional economy where prices are rising. The prices of most of those expenditures are rising faster than inflation. From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. Insight Center.

Retail 9

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9