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. Third, large pension funds such as GPIF, Norges Bank Investment Management, AP, and New York Common Retirement Fund.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

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. Challenge risk financing conventions. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. Flooding money markets on Sunday (3/13) with ¥15 trillion (about $183 billion) was a sensible first step by the Bank of Japan, but the real challenge lies ahead.

GDP 15

GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 15

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. In the upper left quadrant are the multi-year rollouts, like large Enterprise Resource Planning or supply chain modernization endeavors.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email. And given the complexities involved in building up competitive IT weaponry, businesses won by out-spending and out-resourcing their opponents.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

An important but less well-documented type is comprised of an estimated 1 million small businesses that are part of commercial and government supply chains (referred to as suppliers). For example, a “mom and pop” Main Street shop has different financing needs than a high‐tech startup.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Earlier this year, they raised $325 million in the public markets and this month acquired BancABC , a bank with operations in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Governments want banks who will lend to businesses and homeowners,” Bob explains, “That’s what we intend to do. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

the movement to enhanced reporting is led by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), which is endorsed by regulatory heavy weight Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England. Deutsche Bank felt compelled to explain there was a good reason (in this case increased efficiency through e-learning). Outside the U.S.,

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If you were offered the opportunity to finance a high risk , low return investment, how eager would you be to write a check? We can equip them with ready-to-launch models and the basic management skills to take them to new markets — everything from impact measurement to supply chain management. What Capitalism Can't Fix.

Franchising 8

Franchising Business Model Supply Chain Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

At the same time, multinationals are feeling pressured by the state to demonstrate their commitment to the market by further localizing their supply chain, labor, brand, and production. The weak ruble has driven up inflation notably, which in turn has forced the central bank to raise interest rates, driving up the cost of credit.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Visa and MasterCard are both exploring uses for similar technology to improve the way they process payments, while Ripple is lowering the cost of transactions between banks and other financial institutions through its global settlement network. But the practical applications for blockchain technology go way beyond financial assets.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Finance and business executives often joke that the word blockchain placed at the end of the company name is enough to increase the share price of any entity at least twofold. Supply Chain Management. Many people are using the world blockchain these days. So much so that the phrase has become a buzzword.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Document Participative 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Much of the concern has been around the financial industry, where despite complaints of “too big to fail,” the number of large, international banks has actually fallen since the crisis. Over the next several decades, that economy was replaced by one of big-box retailers and global supply chains.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Price Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Given that we are expecting continued emerging market currency depreciation (and a gradual devaluation of the Chinese yuan as the Central Bank of China seeks to maintain China’s export competitiveness), this issue is going to be a significant problem for multinational corporations (MNCs) in 2017, and possibly beyond.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

After serving as a dean at Harvard and Stanford, he was chair of the World Bank-sponsored Commission on Growth and Development from 2006 to 2010. These losses were offset by growth in higher-value-added jobs in consulting, finance & insurance, and computer systems design. to emerging economies.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Liberate and accelerate data by creating a data supply chain built on a hybrid technology environment — a data service platform combined with emerging big data technologies. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects. For example, a U.S.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. for example, set up a unit like this in the early 1980s; merchandising, IT, and supply chain worked together to develop the company's celebrated direct-store-delivery capability, enabled by handheld devices that Frito-Lay developed itself.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I am expected to integrate my tools into complex global supply chains of international drug producers to solve the local problem of counterfeiting. I run a multinational enterprise with multiple partners and super-demanding clients. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Maybe you won't be the top English-language website about early childhood language education (or supply chain management, or maternity care, or mortgage finance). You won't be the top expert on banking or women-owned businesses but you can be the top Twitter feed with banking and finance advice for women-owned businesses.

Media 13

Media Strategy Supply Chain Audience 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

And while there are lots of executive programs in “Accounting and Finance for Nonfinancial Managers,” there aren’t any that I know of on “Analytics for Non-Quantitative Managers.” Many common analytical decisions, such as those about issuing credit by banks or insurance policies, are made entirely automatically.

Analysis 8

Analysis Supply Chain CRM Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

You will lose the bankers if your guidepoint is startups rather than growth; it is not banks’ business to invest in startups with few assets to secure as guarantees. Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning. Don’t ignore the companies who are leasing equipment to growth firms.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

To the right, three shiny-suited investment bankers cluster around a banking reform activist in his twenties. This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). The purpose? Consider this example: the Future of Fish.

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. ” These subsidies build on years of Chinese state support for foundational industries like banks, oil, utilities, telecom, and construction. In recent years, U.S. imports of goods made in China by companies that benefited from $7.3

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

If these events occur, they would severely disrupt multinationals’ market strategies, supply chains, and exchange-rate assumptions. This would come at a delicate time for the European economy, making it more difficult for leaders to assemble coalitions to back complex EU reforms to put European finance on sound long-term footing.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9