Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Europe is at the top of your risk list for 2015. You look at Podemos in Spain, with elections coming up in 2015. All of these things make Putin and Russia the biggest, most powerful wildcard in the entire world, with the potential to cause a lot of damage to the global economy. An edited version of our conversation is below.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

What’s also fascinating is that The Global Family Business Index, a compilation of the largest 500 family firms around the globe intended to exemplify the economic power and relevance of family firms worldwide, found that 44 percent are owned by fourth generation or older family members. and China)” as cited in the report.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In 2015 real GDP per capita was $56,000 in the United States. The real GDP per capita in that same year was only $47,000 in Germany, $41,000 in France and the United Kingdom, and just $36,000 in Italy, adjusting for purchasing power. Each year, the United States produces more per person than most other advanced economies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

The genetic testing in question would be financed as an administrative cost, rather than as a regular medical claim, and would be for the benefit of the employer, not to inform the confidential doctor-patient relationship. The chair of the Health Project , an industry-financed group that evaluates wellness programs and annually bestows the C.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. emissions from electricity generators fell 20% from 2007 to 2015, while emissions from other sectors fell more modestly. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation. Brown States.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Powered by early blockbuster drug therapies, the company met its initial hyper-growth by hiring talent, not optimizing its total workforce. 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. Break the silos between HR and Procurement.

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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. The failures continue.

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Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise. Launched in August 2015, Predix helps companies see how their machines and infrastructure are performing so that they can improve them constantly. Consider the challenge companies face in the rapidly changing market for power train compressors.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Memo to CEOs who don’t consider themselves in the electricity business: You may not be in the power business today, but you’re more than likely to be in it tomorrow. Their monthly power bill will be the net of the energy and other services they produce and the energy they consume. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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Energy Licensing Efficiency Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets. And, as has become the hallmark of today’s best startups, some have already begun the process of pivoting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

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Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

The elegance of entrepreneurship is that, when it works, success breeds success, and so a powerful way of knowing if a program is successful, is to remove the props and see if it stands on its own two feet. I suggest that Obama announces now that Start-Up America will officially disband on December 31, 2015.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Second, a new coalition representing many of the world’s largest companies launched in September under the name We Mean Business and issued its own powerful study , offering substantial evidence of the direct business value of investing in low-carbon tech and energy efficiency. A deep shift in how we generate and use power has begun.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In fact, Bloomberg reported that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation. The wealthy can now install large high-power solar energy systems that produce enough energy to meet their needs for an entire year. solar in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. The ACA legislation addressed this by establishing different financing models.

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Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, in 2015, Maersk and MSC, the world’s two largest liner shipping companies, established 2M, a 10-year vessel sharing agreement covering 193 vessels. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2015, Boeing launched the Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop AI technology for airlines. These are but two examples of how AI powered by precise data can lead to outsized impact. How can you put these ideas to work for your company?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

Ramit Sethi – the bestselling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich – developed his knowledge of personal finance the hard way, through his personal experience of winning a college scholarship and then almost immediately losing half in the stock market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Although many past forecasts for electric-car adoption have missed the mark — China, for instance, will probably fall short of having 500,000 electric cars on the road by 2015 — Musk is betting heavily on the rapid rise of battery-powered vehicles. That’s four times the number of electric cars sold globally last year.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. She’s done just about everything a COO can to grow a company and is now eager to apply that expertise to startups in a different industry — wind power or alternative transportation, such as bike sharing.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Governments have since created new regulatory agencies and strengthened the powers of existing ones with a view to reducing “systemic risk” and protecting consumers, workers, and the environment. in 2015, while foreign direct investment from the United States fell from 2.9% of GDP in 2007 to 3.3%

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Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S. So much so that it is being likened to a foundational technology , much as the internet was in the early 1990s.

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Insurance Industry Policies Market Penetration 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

For example, Ford’s River Rouge plant not only assembled cars but also made its own steel, glass, fabrics, power, and cement on-site. We analyzed every conflict minerals report submitted to the SEC in 2014, 2015, and 2016 (though our paper only includes results for the first two years). stock markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” This finding confirms what bankers fear: digitization upends business models, enabling greater competition that puts pressure on incumbents. Sometimes David can triumph over Goliath.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The situation stabilized somewhat after the government abandoned the Zimbabwean dollar in favor of a multi-currency system in 2009 and entered a power-sharing deal with the opposition party. South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb harness the power of the internet to offer a frictionless marketplace that powerfully matches supply and demand so as to make whole new sets of assets available to customers. dave wheeler FOR HBR. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Breakthrough innovations in high tech certainly have a powerful impact on performance, but they are quite rare.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

For further evidence of this, we examined the 2015 S&P 1500 Index , a mix of small-, medium-, and large-cap stocks, and separated the index based on industry sector according to FactSet’s industry classification. You’ll notice that the finance industry is included in this group as well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. In recent years we have learned a lot about the causes of short-termism and its intensifying power. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive. We calculate that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program. .”

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