Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. And short-term numbers at that. Embrace your organization’s humanity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Corporate executives would be well served to turn off the television. Multinational companies do have their work cut out for them, and should take a second look at their 2014 plans — but this requires separating the signal from the noise to focus on their most important management challenges. Economy Finance Global business'

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“Noting the benefits of diverse experiences in the board room, corporate executives can search beyond the tradition director pedigree (e.g. The study encompassed an extensive dataset comprising over 11,000 observations of 971 firms that had filed one or more patent applications during the period spanning 1996 to 2014. ”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2014

Marketing increasingly must work across boundaries with other functions such as IT, sales, and finance to execute shared decisions. But it is at these seams that communication most often breaks down and processes stall. They key to effective collaboration is to define clear roles and processes for shared decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. Few executives appear prepared for the challenges of digital M&A. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. In 1968 an investor named Arthur Rock backed executives from Fairchild Semiconductor to start a new company, which would become known as Intel.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources' Even HR itself agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 billion each on buybacks and dividends, equivalent to 134% of its net income, and its executives can do up to $8.1 For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 Rather, it is corporate executives with their stock-based compensation who benefit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian For instance, a 2014 law mandates that the government must show preference for local manufacturers over foreign firms when granting public tenders, without regard to differences in quality. ” Similarly, hours after the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In 2014, the company set a strategic goal to double revenue by 2020, which required disciplined focus on specific strategic growth trajectories. Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

For example, I know a bank executive who had twenty years of great community banking experience, but no bachelor's degree. The same can be true if you are in an engineering job without the right credentials, or a senior finance job without an MBA or an advanced degree in finance. If you are enrolled in a program, show it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations. Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

One of his many extraordinarily accurate predictions: “Any businessman, any executive, could live almost anywhere on Earth and still do his business through a device like this.” Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. ” We are reminded yet again that the chief executive is no longer the sole leader of the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” And in 2014, HBR published a lengthy feature critical of the practice. A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.” Fewer companies would go public, instead financing themselves by taking on more debt.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. Laura Schneider for HBR. What builds management perspectives?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

In my early years as an executive search consultant in Argentina, I was frequently asked to hire senior investment bankers. Just as no executive will ever be perfect, neither will any team shine on all six TER dimensions. Adapted from It’s Not the How or the What but the Who (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. Why does pricing feel so out of executives’ hands? About two-thirds were in B2B businesses.). Companies have gotten better and better at that. Georg: BMW has been very successful in this area.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. In 2016, 50% of the Executive Medical Directors group were women and 29% of the Health Plan Organization’s C-Suite were women.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

That’s why, after years of operating without support staff (it’s been just me and my COO), I’ve recently hired a 24-year-old, Morgan, and given him the title of Director of Execution and Evolution. But the date on it was from 2014. I told him his job is to help me grow my business and my mind.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. Ask people who have participated in the platform, and they will tell you that the community they built in the process of Kickstarting turned out to be more valuable than the financing they received.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. In the past few weeks, a cannabis-focused private equity firm hired a former DEA agent and a publicly traded marijuana company brought on a former executive at Yahoo and Microsoft as its president. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. Most importantly, executives have to follow developments closely.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. On paper, Walmart appears to have adopted many best practices and to have set out a sound plan for moving forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. ” Make no mistake, they have substantial relevant experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Now, however, students’ college and pre-MBA experience is more likely to be in a finance area or perhaps in coding. What can colleges and universities do to mind the gap?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Senior executives should not lose perspective on the enormous opportunities in Iran, but they must be prepared to navigate some serious challenges. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Senior executives should be ready to trace the origins of and combat grey market trade and counterfeits of their products in Iran.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In other words, successful scaling means finding ways to limit the number of things that people are expected to focus on and execute. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. He left in 2014 to pursue a transformation at Airbnb. There are some new faces these days in the boardroom. Over: CMOs take over new responsibilities.

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CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

It’s a two-way flow of information from ideation to execution, and transparent: meetings, successes, and decisions are posted on an inter-company wiki. EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Windham built an entire ad-hoc team at Stanley Black and Decker — product planners, executives, and engineers. She found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters. Atis created a rich ecosystem around her idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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