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.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

If you’re graduating from business school this spring, you might want to be sitting down for this: the job market for recent MBA graduates looks poised to get a lot worse in 2014. First the good news: Hiring of college graduates is expected to increase three percent in 2014, with some sectors doing even better than that.

Marketing 14

Marketing Finance Education Public Relations 14

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. The New Marketing Organization. The Content Marketing Revolution. How We Transformed Marketing at Electrolux. How We Transformed Marketing at Electrolux. An HBR Insight Center.

Marketing 8

Marketing Proposal Finance Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Instead, we should measure and manage behaviors like spending time in markets and designing and executing smart experiments and the values to which employees adhere.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As currencies and stock markets have tumbled in emerging markets, the business media has been dominated by cries of an “Emerging-Markets Crisis.” The media uses “emerging-markets crisis” as shorthand, but recent market turmoil was actually about relatively few countries.

Crisis 8

Crisis Marketing Contingency Plans Execution 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

It is generally accepted that efficiency represents the optimal, aspirational state for any market. Efficient markets, which feature many buyers and sellers and perfect information flowing between them, determine the “right price” and hence allocate society’s resources optimally. Think about how markets evolve.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Former SVP at Citi in both marketing and business development roles. Dorie Clark – Marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor.

Insurance 52

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

After controlling for momentum, stock returns aren’t persistent; for example, if high stock returns in 2014 lead to high satisfaction at the start of 2015, these high stock returns don’t necessarily persist in 2015 – a stock that has done well in 2014 should be equally likely to outperform as underperform in 2015.

Long-term 8

Long-term Marketing Short-term Price 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Numerous companies are now addressing market and regulatory demands by actively seeking to enhance the demographic diversity of their corporate boards. 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.

Diversity 96

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 96

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. further sanctions, oil price drop, protests, etc.)

Policies 9

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

This advice, adapted from the book Finance Basics , will help you better understand how to create a useful budget. If you’re the manager of the Moose Head Division at the fictional company Amalgamated Hat Rack, for instance, you might look at the 2014 budget to get ideas about how to increase revenue, cut costs, or both.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Finance Cost Price 8

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.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. The Hard Road of Hard Tech. ” An Alternative Path. .”

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology. times Vormetric’s sales.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

If the public sector is to realize the full potential of digital technology to transform public finances and even kickstart national economic growth, governments will have to move beyond streamlining services and cutting red-tape for entrepreneurs. The Singaporean economy’s growth rate went from 6.2% in 2011 to 2.9%

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

Illicit outflows from Africa totaled $69 billion in 2014. They need infrastructure, starting with the roads that will take them to school or market, as well as electrification, water and sanitation systems. They need education, health care, decent wages, access to finance. But there are also things that money can’t buy.

Consensus 8

Consensus Finance Commitment Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. And in 2014, Pfizer, the U.S. Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

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 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.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. In both cases, the two goods (car and real estate) are given value-creating potential through a process of market fragmentation and consumer empowerment.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

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. The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S.

Planning 8

Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

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. But excuses like those don't matter in tight job markets where there are plenty of people out there looking for jobs — and with the right credentials for those jobs.

Career 8

Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. consumers are just being introduced to Apple Pay, mobile money services like MPesa and MTN Money have been flourishing in African markets. But the possibilities for ecommerce and consumer marketing are enormous.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

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. Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process. Innovation Marketing' About two-thirds were in B2B businesses.).

Price 11

Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. By 2014, the academy comprised over 3,000 videos on subjects from mathematics to art history. How did Sal Khan finance his venture? Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. 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.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8