Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Discover the reporters in your area and profession. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Cultivate the local media.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

Only six percent of the directors overseeing the world’s biggest banks have any technology experience. That figure, from an Accenture report , is surprising given that the banking industry is increasingly digitized. Technology is transforming the rules of businesses and reshaping industries in just about every sector.

Delegation 8

Delegation Technology Committee Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks. But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies?

Risk Management 13

Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. News & World Report as the nation’s best rehabilitation hospital. Clear roles. A culture of shared values.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Last week the House Committee on Education and Workforce of the U.S. 1313 ), was introduced by Representative Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions should soon consider similar legislation.

Insurance 8

Insurance Power Committee Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

The deal will result in transfer of most, if not all, of GE's advanced avionics technology to the joint venture with the strong possibility that it will also find its way to Avic and/or others in China outside the joint venture as other technologies have been doing in similar cases in other industries.

Committee 14

Committee Globalization Advice Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. McKinsey’s margin growth measure classified firms that report higher earnings growth than revenue growth as myopic. Are all share repurchases myopic?

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Goldman used its power to scale to get to market quickly, assembling a pipeline of services, investing in sophisticated measurement systems and developing a global core curriculum. Early results are encouraging.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

But when product markets are big and the rate of change in the industry is high, capital markets are unforgiving. James Stewart reports the astonishing news that no one on the board beyond the 4-person CEO search committee even interviewed Apotheker before hiring him. So HP's share price tanked and Apotheker was let go.

CEO 11

CEO Price Committee Letter 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Tencent is the largest comprehensive company and includes calling, chatting, and gaming, and recently reported that third-quarter revenue of $2.6 Thanks to their protection by the government, these websites have reaped phenomenal profits. billion, up 34% over last year. News websites are also tightly controlled.

Committee 8

Committee Media Politics Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Bank of America convenes a local committee of bank leaders in each of its 45 Neighborhood Builders markets then uses a short application and lots of on-the-ground research to select two awardees per community per year. And, as a result, we are now able to identify three key reasons why it has been so effective.

Case Study 14

Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

But the most common cause of death they reported? business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Business unit executives hadn’t bought in to the idea. Decide if it ’s a consultancy or a skunkworks.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Treasury Secretaries Paulson and Rubin joined New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in issuing the Risky Business Report , a pithy, hard-hitting look at how much climate change is “already costing local economies” billions and the hundreds of billions of assets and property at risk in the coming years.

IRR 8

IRR Energy Tips Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Considering the sponsors, it's sort of like the Army reporting that what we really need is more battleships. And they use it the way other companies use financial reports — to inform operational and investment decisions. The company's executive committee has embedded its scores in its Key Business Indicator reports.

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. It’s an end-game everyone needs to keep a close eye on.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Cisco's councils and boards — a language that already suggests committees rather than goal-oriented projects — were supposed to speed things up and stimulate more innovation by creating cross-functional groups that could generate ideas about market-facing, solutions-oriented projects and organize across the organization to get them done.

Team 15

Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

report that the Republican National Committee released last week. The RNC report uses the word "brand" five times and "rebranding" twice.) The party has been selling pretty much the same product for more than three decades now, while market conditions have changed. So what should the Republicans do about it?

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. In their view, functional priorities are all too often in conflict with — or not fully supportive of — the strategic needs of the business.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

In a cross-industry survey of 8 firms, we asked over 200 innovation-focused practitioners to review a list of established and emerging technologies (a list that included Apple products, Netflix, eBay and several others) and then tell us why any item on the list eventually became successful.

Innovation 15

Innovation Construction Engineering Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. When You’re Innovating, Think Inside the Box.

Innovation 9

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Read the article in Washington's Observer Reporter). The technology we have developed can be used to create local production facilities that process bamboo harvested from nearby farms.

Govindarajan 14

Govindarajan Resistance Construction Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

To reduce that risk, Zoe Loffgren , a Democrat representing Silicon Valley, is drafting a bill titled "Aaron's Law" for the House Judiciary Committee. Freedom of contract, however, proved inconvenient when mass markets arose, and companies needed to do business the same way with millions of customers at once.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Short-term Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Another way to raise your profile with your boss’s boss is by volunteering for a cross-functional committee — preferably one run by him. Earlier in his career, he was the director of marketing at a “very hierarchical” organization with a “prickly” CEO, to whom his manager reported.

Career 11

Career Bond Case Study CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

For instance, CEOs might have come from the advertising or marketing side of the company, so they may be very well the best person to put together a new ad campaign, in terms of skill set. A lot of the same issues continue to be there; the crucial difference is technology. And technology is both a big positive and a big negative.

Execution 9

Execution Productivity Products CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Besides possibly saving humanity, the deal has another big upside — it signals to financial markets and businesses that the low carbon economy is worth investing in. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers. Companies line up like never before for climate action. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Growing Recognition that Market Forces Won’t Fix the Problem. Market forces won’t make it happen.” ” Another male director, referring to board nominations on several technology companies, responded that “Not a single time was there a mention of hiring a woman — it was never brought up.

Diversity 8

Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

The second source of revenue is trying to change the fact that corporations report large profits to the capital markets and relatively small profits to tax authorities. If we make it more the case that you have to base your taxes on profit reports to capital markets, that can raise a fair amount of revenue as well.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

A few weeks ago, Silicon Valley was abuzz with reports that Google had granted across-the-board raises of 10 percent to all 23,000 or so of its employees — a bracing reminder of just how much money Google makes, and of its willingness to share the spoils of success with its people. But companies work by different rules.

Tacit Knowledge 14

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 14