Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

If you listen to 50 consecutive business podcasts, as we did, everything starts to look like a business case study. You develop the Case Method third eye. Why, with the advent of in-memory big data and high-frequency trading, can't banks clear my personal stock trades instantly? Your way of seeing is transformed forever.

Case Study 8

Case Study TQM Supply Chain Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Sena Aslan, the CEO of FDM Turkey, wished the drive from the Ankara airport to the bank’s largest branch were a bit longer. She had made site visits a hallmark of her short tenure at the company’s helm, because they helped her see how frontline employees were weathering the changes she’d been spearheading across the bank.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. Group merged its three banks (Körfez, Osmanl?, and Garanti) under the Garanti brand.

Banking 11

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. Case studies we did for our report give weight to these findings. Today, Standard Chartered is the go-to bank for women in South Asia. Her insight?

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Case Study Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts. You pay a fee for withdrawing your money in most African banks, thereby discouraging many from banking. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Not bigger in the bad sense, with the arrogance and complacency that has made some banks, for example, feel they are above the rules. It also aims to move up the charts from it's 18th slot — Guanaes keeps a poster mapping the competition in his office — and to create a non-profit to mobilize companies for social innovation.

Hotels 16

Hotels Entrepreneur Advertising Case Study 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Not bigger in the bad sense, with the arrogance and complacency that has made some banks, for example, feel they are above the rules. It also aims to move up the charts from it's 18th slot — Guanaes keeps a poster mapping the competition in his office — and to create a non-profit to mobilize companies for social innovation.

Hotels 15

Hotels Entrepreneur Advertising Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. As I think about companies that compete on consistent, low cost, reliable operations, most have or had leaders who were process innovators, such as Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines, Sam Walton at Wal-Mart, Ray Kroc at McDonalds, Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com, and Fred Smith at FedEx.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Those are the questions behind the Leaders Everywhere Challenge, the second leg of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The Power of Employees to Overcome the Bank Crisis. And today we''re proud to announce the eighteen finalists. Story by Charlie Kim and David Marquet. Story by Peter King.

Leadership 8

Leadership McKinsey Case Study Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Of all the generations alive today, millennials are the most willing to trade financial return for greater social impact, according to “ Millennials and Money ,” a 2014 study from Merrill Lynch’s Private Banking and Investment Group. According to another study, U.S.

Commitment 8

Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. What more proof does one need?

Media 407

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Consider that other power brokers, such as Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, echoed themes similar to those the Pope raised. A few examples: Dow put forth 2025 targets “to help redefine the role of business in society,” which aim to deliver breakthrough innovations and help build the circular economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The CEO of a large, global bank once told me: “It is very easy for someone in my position to be very busy all the time. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Because it means that you don’t have much time to think and reflect. Why do you do it this way?

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I spend a significant amount of my time associating with a pro-business think tank that has been building an impressive database of entrepreneurs, small businesses, start-ups, and innovation-driven enterprises in Africa. On the whole, the businesspeople we studied appeared to run an average of six businesses.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

I managed to keep my home by working with our bank to sell some of the assets of the company and by agreeing to help them get recovery via the lawsuit against Avon, which they did. And I was dealing with a press that had, as the press usually does, gotten the entire story wrong. And no one was sending flowers. Or calling.

Teamwork 13

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” per year for 5 year followings its introduction, based on a case study that I wrote.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The final reason for Israel’s entrepreneurial dynamism is based on the logic of innovation clusters: Early success breeds continued success. That’s the good news.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. This is where numerous ventures fail. You can watch a video on this subject to understand more about what VCs do and don’t fund, and why.].

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54