Strategy Driven

MARCH 29, 2017

Gathering the required data is the first step to improving many areas of business, and finances are definitely no exception. at the best possible price. Still, this is the world of business and finance, and sometimes you need to abstract the human element to gauge just how well something is working. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’. Former CEO Named #1 Most Influential Person in Dentistry for 2017. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Regular contributor to Harvard Business Review.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think About Finances. Recover any outstanding debts promptly, decrease prices wherever it’s practical, consider refinancing and borrowing money, offer up some rewards for prompt or upfront payments, and eliminate as much unnecessary overhead as possible. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company. When you could finance growth with debt, large companies had enormous advantages if they could incentivize managers to embrace disruption (largely by creating new business units).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. Fortunately, in December of 2017 GE’s board downsized from 18 members to 12. The Board Had No Finance Committee.

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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. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Some of them provide free or highly subsidized care to as many as half or two-thirds of all their patients — and still earn a good enough return to attract private investors, even though Indian prices for most medical procedures are 1%–10% of U.S. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. .;

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. Just 6% are using AI in pricing. Some 51% of our AI leaders predicted that by 2020 AI will have its biggest internal impact on their back-office functions of IT and finance/accounting; only 34% of AI followers said the same thing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. Consumers use bitcoins to pay for imported cars , among other purchases.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. They want insurers to compete with one another on the basis of price and service. In 2017, they may open up to still larger businesses and to state and local governments.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

physicians in eight specialties, 100 health system finance officers, as well as 100 health system procurement officers — the people in charge of buying supplies for hospitals. A comparison of our 2015 and 2017 survey findings shows a notable slowdown in the adoption of value-based payment models.

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Health Care Resistance Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. Any unit that contemplates acquiring a new technology that would lower the total cost of the patient’s care in the hospital must pay the full price for that technology from its departmental budget or persuade others to co-invest with it, which is not an easy task.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Freedom Financial provides five key areas of finance that are critical for entrepreneurs to have a greater chance at success. Keep business and personal finances separate. Once your business starts growing, Freedom Financial recommends separating business and personal finances, is essential. Proper preparation for lean months.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Adding 600 new customers a day, M-KOPA intends to cross the million-unit mark by the end of 2017. Meanwhile, even middle-class Americans are being priced out of the housing market in states like California, where average low-tier property prices went up by 10% in 2015. housing sector.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. A new consumer mindset.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Many established firms— a 2017 Deloitte survey suggested about 20% in the U.S.—are Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

As the currency was crashing, he found himself facing a painful dilemma: either raise prices to recoup the losses and hit his annual target — set in U.S. But with the currency changing every day, how much of a price increase should he consider? Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g., Federal Reserve.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Things such as administration, finance and statistics can be outsourced by a business if they do not want to complete these tasks themselves. Instead, get someone else to do it for a lower price. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Mundane Tasks. Your Weaknesses. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. Insight Center.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Blue Apron formally stated their intention to become a public company in early June of 2017.

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IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Yet, investors price Alphabet’s Class C stock, which carries no voting rights, almost no differently than Alphabet’s Class B stock, which carries voting rights. Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. Digital players wield outsize market power. The most valuable non-American company, 7th overall, was China’s e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group. Innovation and change.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

That would likely lead to closing factories, seeking new sources for inputs, and raising prices to mitigate higher production cuts. If he wins with only a narrow victory, as seems likely, his administration would have a limited mandate for populist reforms that would severely damage foreign investment flows and public finances.

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Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. abandoned in January 2017, contained strong restrictions on SOE subsidies that, ironically, were largely drafted by U.S. withdrew from TPP in January 2017. In December 2017, the trade ministers of the European Union, Japan, and the U.S.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Workers are freely using the tools of this hyper-transparent era — including petitions and email leaks — to land punishing blows against corporate reputations and finances, in the process emerging as companies’ most powerful interest group. 28, 2017, Uber cut congestion pricing to John F.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

But as Nate Berg reports, the system is on the cusp of change, with between 775 and 1,000 new cars scheduled to begin service in 2017, at a cost of up to $3.3 To be sure, some say Apple doesn''t have the same allure, and others chafe at Cook''s discipline when it comes to finances and supply chains. They haven''t really changed since.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Employment in liberal states tends to be dominated by low-energy-intensity industries, like tech and finance, while conservative states are more likely to rely on energy extraction or manufacturing. These facts suggest that conservative areas will pay a higher price for reducing greenhouse gas emissions than coastal urbanites will.

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