Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

And in this book, Lehto finally answers the questions automobile aficionados have wondered about for decades: Exactly how and why was the production of such an innovative car killed? The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. Best Leadership Books of 2014.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Levitt agreed, noting that the trouble starts when over time companies come to define themselves not by what they do for customers but by the products they sell or the categories in which they compete. Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Top pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies hire healthcare executives who can successfully and consistently create or identify products that will be the next revenue generator for the firm. Describe the scope of your therapeutic expertise and research, AND your corporate results. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets. The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Now, every company of any scale and in any sector wants to be closer to its customers, to understand them more deeply, and to tailor their products and services to serve them more precisely. They followed a sequence that resulted in new products or major updates to products every year or two. They faced a culture clash, however.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

In so doing, they created a new financial product called a post note. Needless to say, these products were very profitable as long as default rates were low. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Both crises proved it’s not. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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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. To generate publicity that allows them to solicit broad feedback on their beta product.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

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. That said, 2014 disruptions are unlikely to diminish medium-term growth, presenting an opportunity to “buy low.”.

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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 This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. These companies are not immune from geopolitical tensions, which can impact their businesses in both direct and indirect ways.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In 2014 a graduate student at Stanford named Etosha Cave and two colleagues began their entrepreneurial journey. Her lab had discovered new ways to convert carbon emissions into useful products, and they believed the technology had enormous commercial potential. The Hard Road of Hard Tech. ” An Alternative Path.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As growth became a competitive imperative, business leaders began seeing the firm as a system of investment rather than a system of production. What Kunkle is particularly known for is bringing a cross-functional perspective to talent strategy at the consumer products companies she serves. Finance Human resources'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. and compete successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions. Turn services into products. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Meanwhile, plenty of other organic products, including vegetables, milk, and tea, have become widely consumed, at least by affluent, health-conscious city dwellers. The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites. Why the difference?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. 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.

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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. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In 2014 we described what Western investors want from African entrepreneurs. Here are three things that Western investors should want from African entrepreneurs: a focus on the top of the pyramid, control over factors of production, and innovation in distribution rather than in products. Factors of Production.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4

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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. 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. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” The UK Government is launching an inquiry into buybacks , due to concerns that they “may be crowding out the allocation of surplus capital to productive investment.” ” And in 2014, HBR published a lengthy feature critical of the practice. Such a nefarious use of corporate funds makes for great headlines.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

With no means to track sales, little data is available, and channels are too fragmented for companies to forecast production and distribution with any degree of accuracy. So now, Equity Bank account holders can pay for purchases with a swipe of their phone and access a wide range of financial products much faster and cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Our flagship products are wood-burning stoves that generate electricity from fire while reducing toxic smoke emissions by 90%. Customers have myriad channels to discover new products and shop at outdoor gear retailers to explore, evaluate, and choose what they need. Handi shop customers had never seen a product like ours.

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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

MAY 21, 2015

With the rise of distributed forms of energy, such as rooftop solar power, and batteries , it’s become much more feasible to match individual demand for electricity with on-site production. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways. from 2012 through 2014.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

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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Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

We don’t stop at interviewing and choosing good candidates; we give them detailed insight into the company’s finances, strategy, individual consultant performance, and implications on compensation so they can make a fully informed decision about whether to join us.

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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. But a lot has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

They are simply trading based on their beliefs about the future value to hypothetical future users of the product in question. They are the product of human imagination, which is ruled alternatively by fear and euphoria. Economy Finance' Buyers don’t want to take delivery on the corn, soybeans, or pork bellies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

These preparatory steps are of particular importance for carve-outs that are not full-fledged business units with profit & loss responsibility, such as R&D centers or production units whose only customer is their parent. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Roughly 80% of individuals and families who bought their health insurance through an SBM or FFM in 2014 received a tax credit to defray the cost of premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. Burwell, the U.S.

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