Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation.

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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. The likes of New York Times ' Thomas Friedman and Richard Pérez-Peña agree that trend is only going to continue. I just didn't have the time to get an MBA."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

He isn’t just keeping up — he stays ahead of the trends by proactively seeking out these new technologies himself and experimenting with them to see what effects they have on productivity, efficiency, and quality. But the date on it was from 2014. But Morgan takes a different approach. It’s ancient history.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

And so Harry’s has been growing 35% year-on-year between 2014 to 2016, three times faster than the industry average , commanding 9% of all online razor sales. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Recent developments, such as falling solar panel prices and increases in efficiency rates (the rate at which sunlight hitting panels is turned into usable energy), have made distributed energy increasingly economical, while new business models and financing methods have made it more accessible. from 2012 through 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And almost all of us have limits on our time and finances — due to kids, social organizations, work, and more — that make additional formal education impractical or impossible. In 2014 a CBRE report estimated that 50% of jobs would be redundant by 2025 due to technological innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

These trends are not limited to customers. Nigeria’s ecommerce market alone generates $2 million worth of transactions per week, and online transactions are expected to cross $6 billion by the end of 2014. Finance Global business Technology' But the possibilities for ecommerce and consumer marketing are enormous.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The move scared away foreign investors, starving Zimbabwe of much-needed capital – a trend that was exacerbated by U.S. For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country. and EU sanctions in response to the government’s mounting human rights abuses.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The idea of revealing human capital data in annual reports is not new and the reports won’t change overnight; however there is now an unmistakeable trend towards enhanced reporting. This is no fringe movement. The big player in the U.S. Other important groups like GRI are also playing a role. Largely unnoticed in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 trillion in 2014 alone. Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute explores this new era of digital globalization. This kind of strategy increasingly applies beyond the multiplex.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

The study explores net growth in private-sector business establishments from 2001 to 2012, ranking the best and worst states for new establishments post-recession and shedding light on national trends. A business establishment 1 is defined as a single physical location that produces some form of economic activity. “The New Jersey.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The joint research produced by Priori Data and Pollen VC examined 50 free-to-play and 50 paid iOS games featured at launch in the iTunes App Store during the second half of 2014. This is because self-service, which requires ad network customers to pre-pay, forces app developers to use credit cards to finance their app advertising campaigns.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The 2014 numbers above include two new Fed board members (Stan Fischer and Lael Brainard) and one renominated to a second term (Jerome Powell) who haven’t been confirmed by the Senate yet. One obvious and unsurprising trend in the chart is that overall educational standards have risen.

Banking 9

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The parts of the business where the approach is used most intensively grew revenue by double digits in 2014. This way, they can respond very quickly to new or changing customer needs, incrementally. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Are these recent wage increases merely necessary in light of a tightening labor market, or could they start a broader trend that may change our economic growth trajectory? Today, that trend has slowed slightly in both countries, contributing only 0.3 percentage points to productivity growth in the period 2010 to 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

If current trends continue, then by 2050 there will be more than a million in the US alone. Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges. By 2014, that milestone had shifted to age 29. Today in the United States there are 72,000 centenarians.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. So we parted ways with our outside management agency in late 2014 and we brought all core business operations in-house.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

In 2014, global political volatility reached an intensity not seen since the end of the Cold War. The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And America’s willingness to weaponize finance has grown substantially as a consequence. Russia and Ukraine. Iran and Syria. The Sony hack by North Korea.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The largest businesses are able to secure financing with relative ease and on strong terms, including historically low interest rates. In September, the SBA announced that the banks had already increased their small business lending by $17 billion, putting them on track to meet their goal by the end of 2014.

Banking 8

Banking How To Finance Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments. cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. Plus, I argued, other clean energy industry measures like clean energy M&A, job growth, and deployment were trending in the right direction.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. But in April, just after U.S.

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