Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In a recently published paper in the Academy of Management Journal , we explore how major business corporations translate the grand challenge of climate change into strategies, policies, and practices over an extended period of time. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece appears also to lose control of the €11 billion reserves of the Greek banking stability fund. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. But the new Greek team consisted of an inexperienced and ambitious set of politicians and academics with little, if any, policy experience. This looks unlikely.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 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.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Conventional wisdom is that CEOs buy back stock to manipulate the short-term stock price. They fund the buyback by cutting investment, and so firm value suffers in the long-term. It boosts prices in the short run, but the real way to boost the value of a corporation is to invest in the future, and they are not doing that.”

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Intangible Assets Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The Bank of England will likely lower policy rates, or even adopt negative interest rates. It is impossible to forecast precise impact with confidence, given that exit terms, timing, and knock-on implications are all uncertain. FTSE250) were indeed recorded in the first two sessions after the vote.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Along with explaining in clear if caustic terms how financial markets work, the book prefigures almost every criticism of the financial system that's been levied since the crisis of 2008. In 1997, though, such arguments were pretty close to unheard of. An overleveraged housing market?

Books 16

Books Short-term Long-term Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. The United States has its own money because the Federal Reserve can — and will — print unlimited dollars to avert sovereign default or rescue banks. Nobody worries too much that the U.S.

GDP 9

GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Forgoing Short-Term Profits in Favor of Long-Term Reputation. Leaders rate the importance of maintaining a sterling reputation in the countries in which they operate 10 times higher than do laggards — the greatest variance we found. That long-term view is rated more highly by leaders by a ratio of 2:1.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. Facilitate Investments. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g., Arguments Against Strategic Cash.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

If policymakers hope to be successful in their efforts to promote entrepreneurs and small businesses, they need to know what works – in short, they need a “Playbook” for small business job creation. An effective policy strategy for small businesses needs to focus on the unique needs these companies have.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

In the short run, with oil at $50 per barrel, Keystone will connect refineries to oil that may be unprofitable to extract. First, the short-run economics. Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson, Robert Rubin and, most recently, Larry Summers — are calling for aggressive policies, such as a tax on carbon. They’re not good.

Energy 8

Energy Short-term Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Imagine a presidential election in which there's only one candidate, and he's said nothing about his intentions or policies. election to provide a choice for distinct policy alternatives and a clear result, the outcome of the Congress of China's Communist Party, which takes place every five years, will be far more murky.

Leadership 8

Leadership Short-term Committee Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion. Managers worship at the altar of conformance. He was right.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion. Managers worship at the altar of conformance. He was right.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2018

Who should be involved in decisions regarding business impact, regulatory compliance, technical approach, and even ethical values when companies integrate machine learning into business operations? Someone should be made responsible to audit and monitor model performance over time and identify any actions against business policy.

Compliance 8

Compliance Document System Learning-by-Doing 8

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. Aadhaar: The Base of the India Stack.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 17 percent). What They Claim They Do. When They Say They Provide.

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

customers, competitors, suppliers, employees, regulators, partners, and so on) occur at the level of the operating unit, and if these interfaces are genuinely different between operating units, it makes sense to locate the corresponding tasks (e.g., If the sources of these opportunities and threats (e.g., Avoiding duplication.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps?”

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Media Sample Banking 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Transformative change requires an organization to change not only how it operates but, even more importantly, how people think. We completed the project after making significant changes in their policies and leadership practices. Day-to-day support work is concrete, urgent and short-term.

Ulrich 52

Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. This fixation generates a short-term view on the potential of the venture to expand beyond the immediate product line. Good relations with the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. This short paper outlines how climate is “already costing local economies billions” and describes how hundreds of billions of property are at risk.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Many invested heavily in renewable energy (see number five on this list), and some big companies dove into policy debates this year. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9