Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Futren Corporation is a private-club management and operations company with around 200 employees, based in Marietta, Ga. The company manages Indian Hills Country Club and The Georgian Club in Marietta, and acquired Woodland Hills Golf Course in Cartersville in February 2013.

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White Paper Case Study Class Newsletter 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. full-service bank and, with limited exceptions, major banks in Europe and North America. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s hedge funds.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity. References: Cosgrove, T.

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Software Insurance System Operations 50

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

And more recently in New York City where we spent two days with two of the greatest leaders of our time, Frances Hesselbein and Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, and where they were formally trained in Stakeholder Centered Coaching by Dr. Frank Wagner, Chris Coffey, and Will Linssen. Thought Leaders – Cohort 2.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Here is a brief synopsis of what we missed: Under Chinese stewardship, a new and potentially disruptive player in the development banking landscape, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which was initially proposed in 2013 by President Xi Jingping, gathered steam. led World Bank ($2223.2

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. First, consider short-term profits and sanctions, and the cautionary tale of French bank BNP Paribas. The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one.

Politics 13

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering. The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects.

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Bond Company Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. As a result of this fraud, the bank is now being investigated by Federal prosecutors and Congressional overseers. But the fallout is far from over. A blind spot among senior leaders.

Banking 11

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Moreover, having regularly defaulted on its debts, few international institutions are willing to lend to the government, forcing it to rely on poorly capitalized local banks.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position. Date: May 12, 2013 21:37. We have made a bank transfer, and your tuition is paid. Date: June 6, 2013 20:16. Date: June 8, 2013 07:12.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Factors ranging from weak demand to bank consolidation have combined to hobble many small businesses  and if these factors arent addressed, they could continue to impede U.S. And as we describe in a recent HBS Working Paper , gaps remain in traditional bank credit supply. job growth and economic security. small businesses.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a surprise in early November, demonetizing 500 and 1,000 rupee bank notes. Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.”

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In the same way that banks must constantly balance assets and liabilities, data-laden firms need to move from cyber-defense and fire-fighting toward more proactive management of what could prove to be their most important asset. Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Banking and payment processing are significant issues, and many businesses that handle marijuana directly have to operate as all-cash businesses.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Those steps helped the bank drive up loan volumes, a tangible bump the CMO could point to in discussions with other leaders.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In April 2013, over 1,100 workers died in Bangladesh when a garment factory complex called Rana Plaza collapsed. That’s the discussion I moderated on November 18, 2013, at the Boston Global Forum. Bangladesh’s factory owners, who operate with tight margins in a highly competitive industry, find it tough to invest in improvements.

Retail 8

Retail Globalization Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

A 2013 study found that having peers with prior entrepreneurial experience reduces the likelihood of future business failure. The program, led by bank staff who had been training similar groups for years, taught women basic financial literacy and business skills and showed them a film showcasing successful role models in their community.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Banking Training Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. Exceed client expectations. Measure success.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

It existed in over half the companies in 2013 with 20% officially allowing it, but both these numbers dropped a year later; by 2014, just over one-third said it existed, and only 7% officially allowed it. BYOPC truly exploded, nearly doubling from 44% to 80% between 2013 and 2014, with a jump in unofficial use making the big difference.

Trends 8

Trends Telecommunications Survey Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

Price 13

Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

France: Pushing quotas and operational roles. France is one of the rare countries to have so many of their most senior women in operational roles, rather than the staff and support function jobs that has been the initial answer of so many companies trying to balance their teams. You’ll find the more detailed reports here.

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Execution Committee Diversity Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. In Interbrand’s 2013 list of the World’s most valuable brands , Nike ranks 24 th , two slots up from the prior year and a 13% increase in value to $17.085 billion.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

An extreme version of this is Stockholm syndrome , so named after a Swedish bank robbery in 1973, in which after only five days of being held hostage, the victims identified with and defended their captors. Today, the environment in which businesses must operate has become consistently inconsistent and predictably unpredictable.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. The balance sheet has also become less useful for banks’ lending decisions because banks rely on asset coverage to calculate their security. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

BuildDirect was founded in 1999 by CEO Jeff Booth with his good friend Rob Banks. Booth and Banks each invested $20,000 to start a company that could ship heavy home-improvement products more efficiently. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Many such “Rocket” companies are poised to become the Alibabas and Amazons for the rest of the world: Jumia, which operates in nine countries across Africa; Namshi in the Middle East; Lazada and Zalora in ASEAN; Jabong in India; and Kaymu in 33 markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

On the Monday after the Paris terror attacks (and two weeks before the shootings in San Bernardino), I taught a session at Harvard Business School on what Boston’s response to the 2013 marathon bombings can tell us about going from “nothing to something” in cities. Let me explain. How did we make this happen?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In 2013, only 8% of the companies in this annual benchmarking survey received a top grade from their customers — and that''s a pathetically low number in comparison to the amount of professed innovation in the industry. Not surprisingly, it wound up with a bank that looks like an Apple store.

Innovation 8

Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

As banks rush to digitize their operations , many have found that closing their local branches can help maintain a high return on an otherwise pricy transformation. European banks, for example, closed over 9,000 branches in 2016, which represents a 4.6% In the United States, the total number of bank branches has dropped by 8.2%

Banking 8

Banking Entrepreneur Finance Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. ” • “Reserve Bank permission? But it won’t be “India’s fault,” in our view.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12