The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008. I began a search for reasons to be optimistic.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

Businesses operate at a pace such that they grab for help wherever it is available. Banking, insurance benefits, human resources, etc. Cross-industry cooperative initiatives. More often than not, they reach toward the wrong resources, the untied advisors and sources that send them down rabbit holes. It is lonely at the top.

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Advice Library Seminar Webinar 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Definitions of these three terms will help to differentiate their intended objectives: Collaborations - Parties willingly cooperating together. Cooperation with an instrumentality with which one is not immediately connected. Involves close cooperation among parties, with each having specified and joint rights and responsibilities.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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Banking Finance Globalization Film 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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Banking Finance Globalization Film 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Ever since the forced bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered the financial crisis 10 years ago, regulators, risk managers, and central bankers around the globe have focused on shoring up banks’ ability to withstand financial shocks. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images.

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Crisis Banking System Cooper 11

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. Across the region, banks are closing branches but expanding their digital channels as customers increasingly move online.

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Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

On-line exchanges for barters, swaps, and sharing of goods or services have made direct connections possible, sometimes without much money changing hands beyond a fee to the exchange-operator. Imagine an e-Bay or Craig's List ad: "Have peanuts, seek medical care.".

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Finance Strategy Banking Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The second innovation was called blockchain, which was essentially the realization that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency and used for all kinds of other interorganizational cooperation.

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Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Take the example of a dairy cooperative I worked with recently. I’ve assisted a rural bank which decided that its target customer was “commercial family farms.” But then you become aware that some of the employees are also owners, and the complexity grows. The trick is to identify stakeholder roles. The reason?

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Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Leaders who operate from a platform of good manners and civility know that: Everyone likes to feel acknowledged and important I started my work life in the mailroom of a bank. Two is, that the wider our span of authority gets, the more we need the support, cooperation, ideas and good will of others to be successful.

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Blog Politics Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 79

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Recent problems in Kenya’s banking sector have rekindled the necessity for regulators to push for tougher auditing reforms as well. To reduce the insurance premiums, traded companies must cooperate and engage better with auditors. From Nigeria to South Africa , retail investors are still below pre-Great Recession levels.

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Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

As one chief information security officer for a global bank said, "If we did all the security checks we'd like to before connecting with new hedge fund customers, they would just take their business across the street.". Unfortunately, though, it's all too easy to grind your business to a halt with doctrinaire security policies.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

They may not be like the big conglomerates of the 1960s — you can see how their portfolio of somewhat related business came about — but, in reality, the various divisions and business units do operate completely independently from one another. Finally, a corporation's head office can provide funds, much like an in-house bank.

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Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

For example, Citibank wanted to copy the Apple store so badly that it actually hired the same architects responsible for the Apple store concept to design its bank of the future. Not surprisingly, it wound up with a bank that looks like an Apple store. Imitation may be the highest form of flattery — but it''s not innovation.

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Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Now the best description might be, “giant bank account with a company attached.” WordPress operates as an open-source ecosystem with a venture-backed corporation, Automattic , at its heart. There was a time when Twitter could be described as “plumbing.” Let me explain, starting with the plumbing.

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Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. By contrast, the 110 largest German companies had margins of just 6.3%. This success is no blip. This attention is not just focused at the factory.

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Industry Long-term Short-term Class 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Statements like that of the Silicon Valley engineer who expressed resentment at his manager’s demands by saying, “[he] doesn’t have two kids and a wife, he has people that live in his house, that’s basically what he has,” as reported by Marianne Cooper, are increasingly common among younger men. To them, this looks more like selfishness.

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Diversity Ethics Report Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Instead, Dr. V changed the face of eye care on the planet, and he did it by owning the entire problem — providing community outreach, eye care, training, eye banks, research and the production of inexpensive but high-quality eye care supplies. You don't have to separate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals and project goals.

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Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

” Decentralization offers the promise of nearly friction-free cooperation between members of complex networks that can add value to each other by enabling collaboration without central authorities and middle men. Let’s start by examining the potential effects of this on an industry that touches all of our lives – banking.

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Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

From building cross-functional customer segment units to creating additional teams that cut across merchandizing, store operations, and segment owners, senior leadership at Best Buy saw to it that the entire organization embraced an outside-in approach. Q: How long does this process generally take? And what are the benchmarks of success?

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Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Whether you are working in a large corporation with a presence in all the major markets or you're an owner operator with a single website, it is likely that your communications will reach people from a wide variety of cultural origins. If you are in business, then you are in a global business.

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Advertising Audience Banking Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

More importantly, the IMF predicts strong 4% growth for the region in 2012 and Gulf Cooperation Council countries could set a torrid 7% pace. According to the IFC/World Bank's 2011 Doing Business survey , Saudi Arabia is now the 12th easiest place on the planet to do business — one spot ahead of Canada.

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Class Globalization Survey Cooper 15

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 25, 2019

The paper directly references the rise of the European Union, alongside bodies such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and their growing influence on national politics. “Thus, the undermining of domestic accountability is likely to continue.” ” A shifting trifecta.

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Process Cooper Globalization Policies 66

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

cooperation on global trade will be compromised for some time if the tariffs go into effect. ” These subsidies build on years of Chinese state support for foundational industries like banks, oil, utilities, telecom, and construction. Besides whatever damage the conflict could do to U.S. In recent years, U.S.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8