In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. The delusion is that market share is the “be all and end all” of business success. Their horizon is markets that do not exist.

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Sports Tactics Competitive Advantage Short-term 228

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

A powerful way to do this, called mobile recruitment uses text messaging (SMS: Short Message Service) to allow workers to find jobs. I was directed to two companies already working in this market, Baba Jobs in India and Assured Labor in Latin America. Allen Kramer : Reflection: Work with Assured Labor.

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Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2013

DON’T STOP SHORT. If you want to succeed, you have to have a long-term, big-picture focus. She’d failed the LSAT, was hawking, of all things, fax machines, and had roughly $5,000 in her bank account. coaching success innovation Lisa Demayo failure' So stop trying to meet everyone else’s expectations by putting on a show.

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Succession How To Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 259

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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Banking Crisis Morale System 50

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Pre-covid, innovation folk would talk about the value a “burning platform” plays in driving lasting change, and for many businesses, this has been just such a burning platform. Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation. Unnecessary hurdles.

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Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 96

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. Another is that we wake up to reality, challenge the short-term profit demands of Wall Street, get strategic and build our businesses for sustainable growth. Innovation on a budget.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

Financial markets are not working for charities and social enterprises today. Most traditional financial intermediaries, like banks, are focused on short-term returns and deem unsecured lending to charities and social enterprises to be too risky. If financing is offered by a bank, the terms are often too onerous.

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Banking Finance Due Diligence Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Dickens Jr.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 64

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Nine investing options that can bring you both immediate and long term profit. Although this article is about short-term investment, you should still build a solid plan for a long-term perspective. There are periods when markets get choppy, and you may lose confidence. Think Long-Term. Invest in Index Funds.

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Short-term Real Estate Long-term Strategy 68

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

A wide range of companies including Apple , Unilever , and Bank of America have issued green bonds in recent years, and the trend is likely to continue. How the stock market responds. New information is provided to the market on the announcement date, as opposed to the issue date. Improvements in financial performance.

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Bond Company Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The innovation mindset isn’t just about product innovation. Some organizations have focused on product innovation for so long they don’t know how to innovate in any other areas. For example, in 2010, Microsoft —one of the world’s best product innovators for the last two decades — launched a social phone called Kin.

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Innovation Productivity Products Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Thus, most groupings may be valid only in the short run. Is that smart?

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Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Short-term corporate behavior is a major problem in the 21 st century firm. Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Tim Evans for HBR.

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

China is now experiencing a middle income trap — losing their competitive edge in labor-intensive industries and not yet gaining new sources of growth from innovation. The potential market for Chinese entrepreneurs is huge. Promoting dynamism and consumption is very costly to its short-term goals.

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Disruptive Innovation Entrepreneur Short-term Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” Initially, a startup has no business model and no market share to defend.

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Company Hotels Business Model Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies. We get back to core stuff.”

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. Innovating away from past exclusion.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Factors ranging from weak demand to bank consolidation have combined to hobble many small businesses  and if these factors arent addressed, they could continue to impede U.S. In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. Banks remain relatively risk-averse amid the tepid recovery.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

At a time when digital technology is transforming one industry after another, large companies tend to view innovation and disruption as the result of breakthrough discoveries or technological wonders. Examples such as WhatsApp demonstrate that real-world innovation, in many ways, looks like an assembly line.

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Technology Productivity Products Business Model 10

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. Management endorsed her proposal to make over the New Delhi and Kolkata branches into all-women-staffed banks.

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Diversity Globalization Case Study Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A friend who has worked for decades at the Bank of America told me that the company fully understood the poor loans it was making. The people working for the bank weren't idiots. If the analyst didn't like the fact that this might constrain profits in the short term, he could sell the stock. But that's not what goes on.

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CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Short of any singing, dancing, and costume changes, this sequence could have been taken from Bollywood, a movie industry widely known for its fantastical flights of fancy. When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them.

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Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But if the purpose of the company is its long-term survival, then one could make the argument that he was a failure as CEO, as he optimized short-term gains by squandering long-term opportunities. Great short-term gains but long-term prospects that are far less compelling. The result?

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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

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Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending. In short, the middle is being squeezed, the top doesn’t spend enough, the bottom doesn’t earn enough, and the policy mix is fatally flawed. We need new policies. This policy is also fairer.

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GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Filling out well-known frameworks and streamlining established business models won’t be enough.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. It focuses on both long-term investment and continuous improvement.

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Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8