Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2021

CryptoNote was first described in a whitepaper written by Nicholas van Saberhagen (which is a presumed pseudonym) in October 2013. Alphabay, one of the biggest darknet market sites, along with a smaller darknet store called Oasis, integrated Monero as a payment option that summer. Bytecoin then enters the stage.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

I first walked that trail – 435 miles over 29 days – in 2013 and have returned twice since. He has 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership, including positions as COO of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, strategy consultant with Bain & Company, and marketing executive with Capital One.

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Leadership COO Consultative Learning-by-Doing 174

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. Rajamannar involved finance early. His artillery: Advanced Big Data analytics. Inside Intel.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In 2013, Bitcoin started at $13 USD but closed out the year at $770 USD, which was quite a rise. Even though Bitcoin is considered one of the most volatile crypto coins in the market, most investors continue to buy it. Many Bitcoins were scammed through a Ponzi scheme that promised investors interest rates of up to 7% per week.

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Price Banking Marketing Process 127

Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2013

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Operations Resources Innovation ROI 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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Resources KPI Strategy White Paper 50

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It begins by attempting to put to bed the various doomsday predictions that robots and other AI-driven technologies are going to lay waste to vast swathes of the labor market any time soon, whilst at the same time accepting that changes are inevitably afoot that need responding to, both from an individual and collective perspective.

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Technology Report Productivity Products 46

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. On with the interview. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. As the underwriting weaknesses of subprime portfolios became known, banks stopped lending to each other, paralyzing credit markets. Rockefeller and others to pony up enough cash to stabilize the markets.

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Banking Crisis Morale System 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. 90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR).

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 265

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For decades, we have heard that emerging markets are poised for huge growth that will yield even greater prosperity. Much like their famed Silicon Valley counterparts, emerging market accelerators aim to boost startups’ potential for raising growth capital.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. 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.

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Bond Company Long-term Short-term 11

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. EnableSoft, is engaged in offering game changing software products and services to the business and financial services industry, healthcare and a dozen other markets.

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Software Insurance System Operations 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The $50 billion to be divested is a drop the fossil fuel market’s bucket, but to the much smaller clean tech market it’s a tidal wave. Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak in 2013. Finance Sustainability' billion, according to Dow Jones.

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Venture Capitalist How To Energy Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs would pay VCs well, through carry, when they do what they say they will: generate great returns in excess of the public markets.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. Let''s suppose your idea is a good, viable business idea, but not a billion dollar market opportunity.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 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. In a concentrated market, competitors are few, and growth may come more from mergers and government lobbying than new product lines.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. You won’t have a lot of money.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

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Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

With a market size of $8 billion in 2013 Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) is becoming big business. million as of 2013. Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. Welcome to the brave new world of e-Sports.

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Industry Sports Advertising Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

By serving the price sensitive market, Apple will grow its business with new early-bird customers. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. It will preserve the 5S''s margins. Apple Customers'

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Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Finance Human resources' And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call. A critical part was adapting a proven model in a related field: microfinance.

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Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Sixty-four percent of study participants have vertical sales specialists on their sales force (calling on verticals such as public sector, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, etc.). Sixty-three percent responded that they have specialized inside salespeople that are dedicated to SMB (small to medium business) or mid-market sales.

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Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

By serving the price sensitive market, Apple will grow its business with new early-bird customers. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. It will preserve the 5S’s margins.

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

In the European Union, government VCs allocated €3,621,000,000 to finance innovation and growth in small and medium-size businesses from 2007 to 2013. Women were also denied financing to a greater extent than men, with close to 53% of women having their applications dismissed, compared with 38% of men.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

JLG jump-started its CE execution in 2013 by launching an asset management program, which established a predictable flow of used assets and justified investment in a scalable refurbishment facility. This created higher residual values, reduced costs for consumers by 35%, and allowed JLG to significantly expand its market.

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Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 ZB by 2020.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. into multiple global markets. Wouldn’t you want her running your department?

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty'

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Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14