Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The issue at the heart of this uncertainty involves limited access to capital at a time when banks are reluctant to lend. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Uncertainty 57

Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

While activism takes many different forms, it usually begins with investors holding private conversations with company management on the need to change a process, business model, or management practice. ” We found that 58% of the shareholder proposals in our sample were filed on immaterial issues.

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Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. For policy-making purposes economists assume that all businesses act rationally in the pursuit of profits. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. For policy-making purposes economists assume that all businesses act rationally in the pursuit of profits. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

could learn from — is to test policy proposals before rolling them out nationally. When problems surface, the policy can be fine-tuned, modified, and re-tested before it is tried out on a wider scale. policy making. The bank has never received a taxpayer bailout. But not in U.S.

Biotechnology 9

Biotechnology Real Estate Tourism Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

If this occurs then all directors (except the managing director) must stand for re-election within 90 days. The current Australian Government, importantly from a different party to that which introduced the “two strikes” legislation, has gone in hard on Australia’s “big four” banks.

Execution 8

Execution Banking CEO Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

After months of acrimonious negotiations, and despite a significant rapprochement between their position and their creditors’, the Greek coalition government has unexpectedly stopped negotiation discussions in their tracks, announcing a snap referendum for Sunday, July 5 th , over the proposed deal with the EU.

Banking 8

Banking Politics Proposal Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Management experts have long predicted the demise of the standard 9-to-5 workday. The reality is that while flexible work arrangements have become more popular, few companies have an official policy or program. And even fewer managers are open to or equipped to handle employees with alternative schedules. What the Experts Say.

Proposal 15

Proposal Case Study Policies Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

” On her return, she found that not only did she fail to get her clients back, but the colleague who took them over didn’t even know that she had previously managed them. We recently presented initial findings at the Academy of Management; for more detail, see a preliminary report here.)

Career 13

Career Company Pharmaceuticals Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Ironically, Brazil was already attempting to retrench and adjust, but bank retrenchment and "redlining"—treating the whole region as being the same—resulted in over 25 countries falling into arrears by 1983. Central banks pitched in with a $1.85 This confluence of macroeconomic factors proved to be a poisonous cocktail.

Crisis 11

Crisis Banking Politics GDP 11

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. Let’s consider a few examples.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. Progress on resolving these issues will be slow and incremental.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

He cited the International Monetary Fund's 1997 judgment that "Malaysia is a good example of a country where the authorities are well aware of the challenges of managing the pressures that result from high growth and of maintaining a sound financial system amidst substantial capital flows and a booming property market." dollar deposits."

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

The authors conclude that the ocean is nowhere near a lost cause and with the right management tools, the abundance of fish could increase by 56%. As the authors of the Science study write, "When sustainably managed, marine fisheries provide food and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people worldwide."

Industry 9

Industry Incentives Proposal Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

These arguments have proven highly influential and led to several policy proposals to encourage long-term holdings – so-called “patient capital” France’s Loi Florange doubles investors’ voting rights after two years. Other proposals go further. Some companies take matters into their own hands.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The Commission has adopted my proposal for a European law so that women represent 40% of company board members by 2020.". And, of course, we all remember Deutsche Bank's CEO Josef Ackermann's infamous remark that appointing more women to the company's board would make it "prettier and more colorful.".

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Proposal Advertising Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Let’s start with the pioneering companies now offering generous paid parental leave to new dads — firms such as Yahoo (8 weeks), PwC (12-14 weeks), and Bank of America (12 weeks). Over a hundred Major League Baseball players make use of MLB’s paternity leave policy, which was instituted in 2011.

Sports 9

Sports Human Resources Policies Media 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

They are all provisioned and managed by the global companies exhibiting in the hall. The Gulf countries' policy is, broadly, to prefer to invest alongside international financiers.). The E&Y discussion put these ideas together, and came up with the notion of a Saudi Solar Bank. (It

Industry 8

Industry Finance Energy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Economist Ronald Coase proposed auctioning off segments of the electromagnetic spectrum in late 1950s, a policy idea that was later adopted in the 1990s. Many large banks, other financial institutions and some large manufacturing companies also had their own economic staffs. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The good news is that it is feasible, as long as the right pockets of expertise are tapped (in the World Bank, OECD or IMF, for example) and provided a permanent infrastructure is built in the EU. It should get full-time staff with the right skills, focused on results and change management, and clearly tasked to instill better governance.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Politics Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

One energy company, building a pipeline in Bangladesh, opened employment offices along the proposed route to help displaced farmers find jobs — often with the company itself. The case is now languishing in the World Bank’s investment dispute court. Vetting Managers and Sub-Contractors for a Culture of Compliance.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways. for a bank to provide data security protections to its customers’ social media accounts). Data Security & privacy Risk management'

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Are boards of directors now more than in the past focusing on their fundamental task — critically evaluating the leadership and the management of the CEO? This task goes to the fundamental question of public policy and private ordering about the corporation: how shall its leadership be held accountable and to what standards?

Corporate Accountability 8

Corporate Accountability CEO Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season. ” A Review of Relevant Studies. years in 2002 to 7.2 years in 2009.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Management is concerned that resources are not concentrated on important things.

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Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

99.99999 percent of actual management consultants come from five basic career orientations and fit onto one of the five branches of The Business Tree : Technical or niche industry orientation. Entrepreneurial, small business management. Human resources management. Academic, research. What They Claim They Do. Growth strategies.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

As cyber threats grow exponentially, comprehensive risk management is now a board-level priority. Second, as with all threat management, defense is a much harder role to play than offense. The danger is in thinking that these risks can be perfectly “managed” through some sort of comprehensive defense system.

Training 10

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

We worry and wonder: What would a career change do to our bank accounts? A well-respected HR manager in the public sector, leading his own recruitment team and earning a decent salary. At the end of your trial, revisit your budget or your banking statements to see how you did. Dependable. To our way of life? To our family?

Career 12

Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. The Board and the Risk Policy Committee. Why were red flags ignored by senior managers in CIO and in the firm?

Report 8

Report CIO Crisis Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked. IT management Information & technology Risk management'

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Class Information Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2016

But are there ways to make it better that actually work — and without breaking the bank? Spending to maintain the transportation system we have would seem to be an essential part of any strategy to keep traffic from getting worse. Here are four ways to ease traffic. Pay your own way.

Parcell 8

Parcell Transportation Incentives Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Export-Import Bank will hit its $100 billion credit exposure limit by May 1 and will stop issuing direct loans, loan guarantees and export-credit insurance in aid of American exports to risky markets. Then, on May 31, the legislation authorizing the Bank will expire, threatening the Bank's very existence.

Banking 10

Banking Globalization Finance Politics 10

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The ability to manage change determines the fate of any organization. Companies that effectively manage change thrive, while those unable to do so ultimately fail from irrelevance. This second type of change management is critical because it creates meaning and purpose around the other challenges.

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Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

Piketty cites recent research that shows managers and financial professionals making up 60% of the top 0.1% and proposes that their skyrocketing pay is mainly the product of sharp declines in top marginal tax rates that made it worth managers’ while to bargain harder for raises. of the income distribution in the U.S.,

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Globalization Proposal Books 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Once upon a time, CEOs did not comment on governmental regulations or policies other than those that directly affected their industries or companies. When governmental policy undercuts such values, companies feel obligated to speak up. Charlottesville , DACA ), and Bank of America (e.g., CEOs (usually) do the talking themselves.

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