Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2019

Citigroup leading analyst Ronit Ghose, Lemonade Insurance founder and CEO Daniel Schreiber, and OakNorth Bank founder and CEO Rishi Khosla discuss the new possibilities that AI offers the finance industry. Those who manage to use this emerging technology to reduce friction for customers will win.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Santa Clara U’s MOBI is an initiative of its Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Leavey School of Business. These plans are tailored to meet your financing requirements which is a huge bonus for those seeking funding through banks. Kudos to Invoiceberry for figuring out this effective lead-gen tactic too!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

His prosecution of the Life & Fire Insurance Company, whose owners Jacob Barker, et al perpetuated a fraud that led to the Panic of 1826, resulted in a hung jury. Why was an insurance company doing a bank’s work? After six months, the borrower would repay the insurance company’s IOU of $1000.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

He went on to describe the similarities between the banking crisis of 1907 – the one that inspired the formation of the Federal Reserve – and the more recent 2008 financial crisis. As the underwriting weaknesses of subprime portfolios became known, banks stopped lending to each other, paralyzing credit markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

This represents a major challenge to the banking sector where, in developed markets, growth and profitability are still at about half of pre-crisis levels. As banks recover from the downturn, non-banks are taking advantage by proceeding aggressively with digital innovations and capturing more and more of the banking value chain.

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Banking Retail Finance Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. However, even these commodity offerings can find ways to innovate and survive.

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Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Much has been made of the fact that a new breed of financial technology (or fintech) companies is unbundling banks in the developed world. Startups are attacking all of the components of the traditional bank value proposition (e.g., Sidian Bank in Kenya has a similar program. However, there are signs that this is changing.

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Banking Company Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

” These services include the ability to deposit and withdraw their earnings, transfer money to friends and family, open and manage savings accounts, and insure their businesses. .” Without any insurance or the ability to receive an infusion of funds to sustain his household, the farmer and his family slip back into poverty.

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Banking Insurance Marketing Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Given the promise and peril of such a disruptive technology, many firms in the financial industry, from banks and insurers to audit and professional service firms, are investing in blockchain solutions. Is this the end of banking as we know it?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

My challenge to you is this…set the chinning bar very high for yourself by reevaluating your goals and objectives to insure that you are on a path towards significance. Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service. Success based in bad action show only it is insignificant!!!! I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

A few of the bullet points: • Banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have $1.5 trillion in capital — the highest capital levels in the history of American banking. • Investment banks used to all be partnerships. Savings and insurance institutions were usually organized as mutuals.

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Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 12

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Banking and investing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Finance charges are negotiated. Instill discipline.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Our data include about 950 businesses.

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

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Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. The result is a "heads the bank wins, tails society loses" set of outcomes. Don''t get us wrong.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

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. Regulators must innovate and create structures that correct inherent flaws which continue to stymie market efficiencies.

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Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In heath care, Omada has similarly turned services into a product, packaging complementary healthcare devices, services, and support into a turnkey offering it sells to employers and health insurance plans to help people lose weight and reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes or heart disease.

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Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. The opportunities to innovate will differ greatly by segment. Yelp, Zillow, and Trip Advisor are examples of innovations in this context.

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Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Less than 30% of the population have bank accounts, and even fewer have credit cards. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. ” This has been driving ever closer relationships between banks and mobile operators.

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Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

It was always meant to be a "social innovation," a way for corporations to make a profit at the same time that they do something good for society. The IPO, the new regulations, and a call for Dr. Yunus's retirement from Grameen Bank have led some to doubt the whole notion of microfinance. I hope not.

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Microfinance IPO Bottom-up Finance 12

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. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role.

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Banking Long-term Short-term System 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The rethink took place in the context of a lot of skepticism (at best) about the banking system, the banking business model, and its contribution to American well-being. There also, however, is strong evidence that it is a bad idea to let big banks fail in the midst of a crisis.

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Banking Crisis System Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. The record on economic policy-making is equally disappointing.

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

(Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Improving Operational Efficiency.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

They come from all regions and sectors and include global banks and manufacturing companies, long-standing Western consumer brands, and fast-growing U.S. and Chinese tech firms. In fact, both the sectoral and the geographic diversity of superstar firms is greater today than 20 years ago.

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Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

But past proposals for a capital budget have gone nowhere, so the only politically realistic way of funding them instead is through some kind of public infrastructure bank, which at this writing has some bipartisan support, but still not enough to get the bank created and adequately funded. Medicare vouchers. Tax on carbon.

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Politics Health Care Budgeting Insurance 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. A large insurance client of mine recently added a new data visualization tool to its business intelligence toolbox.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. One result was the innovative supplemental health insurance product MFW launched in April 2010.

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Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. Similar intermediaries include BankWork$ for the banking sector, YouthBuild in construction, and iFoster in the grocery industry. For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%.

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