Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Since 1980 half of Americans have been stuck in place—their wages in real terms haven’t budged—while the top 20% have seen large gains. It’s nonsensical to blame people for “poor choices” or a lack of financial literacy when their volatile economic circumstances would challenge the skills of a finance MBA.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Proposal Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S. Year-on-year price increases for existing therapies have allowed the industry to maintain profitability, but those short-term fixes have come at a heavy cost: decreased public satisfaction with the industry and increased political scrutiny.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 11, 2016

A number of leaders I know are beginning 2016 facing extremely challenging business and/or personal situations. Kohlhausen was trying to lead a TCU team beset with injuries all season and short its two best offensive players. Steve Jobs led a struggling Apple and had to seek financing from his rival, Bill Gates.

Short-term 150

Short-term Stress Advice Finance 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For example, if I found that satisfaction in 2015 was associated with high profits in 2016, it could be that high profits in 2015 led to both high satisfaction in 2015 and also high profits in 2016. Looking at future profits doesn’t solve the issue, because profits are persistent. Investors should look beyond quarterly reports.

Long-term 8

Long-term Marketing Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. These investors also tend to hold significant portions of the equity shares of many companies while at the same time matching assets to long-term liabilities.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Companies can be divided into two types , in terms of how they approach hiring and compensation: organizational oriented and market oriented. The shorter-term orientation discourages employers from bearing risks on behalf of their workers and encourages them to use employment practices that lower direct costs and increase flexibility.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

” —President Obama, 2016 State of the Union Address. Not all labor market indicators are strong, however: wages remain stagnant, long-term unemployment remains high, and the labor force participation rate is low, by historical standards. Wage insurance can address these challenges.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

The client, which constituted some 80 percent of Home Run’s billings, advised Home Run that its 2016 billings were likely to fall sharply. Blickstein and his finance team had already begun to analyze the options. By the end of January 2016, all of his clients had moved on and, happily, no bridges had been burned.

Media 9

Media Hammer Software Company 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). This equated to an average of more than 8.5 weeks of earnings.

Document 13

Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

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.” ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

European banks, for example, closed over 9,000 branches in 2016, which represents a 4.6% It turns out that women entrepreneurs who seek to finance their ventures using bank financing are increasingly forced to find solutions elsewhere. reduction in a single year. Studies show that women have lower access to capital, for example.

Banking 8

Banking Entrepreneur Finance Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. In fact they are always greatest over the long-term, while the costs are concentrated in the near-term.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade. ” Since the 2009 launch of bitcoin, the short and somewhat shaky answer has been cryptocurrencies. No one does.

Document 11

Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. The losses of U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature. Their revenues grew by over 100% in 2016. Gobble should be, and has been, rewarded for outperformance in terms of a metric that matters.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

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Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Like today, finance in the 1990s and early 2000s attracted many of the sharpest quantitative minds, who produced remarkable theoretical and methodological advances. Furthermore, foundational underpinnings of quantitative finance — for example, elementary logical bounds on the prices of securities — broke down.

Crisis 10

Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. In April 2016, Cuba held its Seventh Communist Party Congress. With these factors in play, the short-term outlook for Cuba is highly uncertain. An economic crossroads.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8