Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman provide the tools for focusing on work that creates real value for customers, including: How to get people to move from ‘worm’s-eye view’ of thier jobs to a ‘bird’s-eye view’ – to understand what the company really does and the role they have in achieving results.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

That is “good advice in general,” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told attendees at the Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference , in Washington, D.C Morse tried and failed to corner the stock of the United Copper Company. Morse tried and failed to corner the stock of the United Copper Company.

Banking 50

Banking Crisis Morale System 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

This is the key message from a leaked United Nations study that The New York Times reported on last week. The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C). That’s $1 trillion per year.

Discounted Cash Flow 11

Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 11

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own. Being timid leads nowhere.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If they don’t like a company’s product, or an experience they had, the whole world will know about it. Newer, hipper, more entrepreneurial and web-savvy companies, often founded and run by Millennials, naturally have a strong understanding and connection to younger consumers, who are, after all, their peers. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20 ) that "accountants would save the world." A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. But we weren't capturing any of it in our financial reports. But I meant it.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

I’d be interested, Palmisano replied, but only “if Bill took the company private.”. Bill Gates did not choose to take Microsoft private (it would have cost a lot ), and insider Satya Nadella became the company’s new CEO. Communication Finance Getting buy-in' Are today’s investors really that horrible? Short answer: no.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

On January 25, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants held a press conference to call attention to a new framework for integrated reporting (reporting sustainability information alongside financial information in companies' filings). Going further, the SSE raised 2.8 Going further, the SSE raised 2.8

Long-term 14

Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Attending a conference in your field might be a goal for someone who is passionate about sharing their expertise with others. What is my preferred work environment and company culture? Zippia reports that 79 percent of professionals believe in the connection between networking and career success.

Examples 52

Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Brad: Drink after the conference? He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. They were at a conference, with industry contacts all around, using their corporate expense accounts. He led the finance team.

Case Study 8

Case Study Conference Hotels COO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

You can feel the tension in the compressed smiles, quick nods and pointed questions at the annual Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare conference. Schedules are packed as the high-stakes finance crowd gathers to hear 20-minute rapid-fire talks by CEOs of start-ups and public companies who seek funding or favorable stock analysts' reports.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Reis Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Although a lot of attention has been given to the idea that millennials in particular will prioritize a sense of purpose and meaning over raw earning power, the numbers are still pretty tough to ignore: looking at where graduates actually want to go, the biggest sectors for top graduates are still technology and finance.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Report Skills Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

I made a career switch seven years ago, when I went from working as a reporter at the Financial Times , where I covered health care in the United States, to consulting — advising CEOs in the pharmaceutical industry on thought leadership and articulating their corporate strategies. Confer with outsiders. Consider the legal field.

Career 8

Career Skills Health Care Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. A similar conclusion was reached by Bo Cowgill at Columbia Business School when he studied the performance of a job-screening algorithm at a software company ( forthcoming research ). So how worried should we be about the modern ascendance of algorithms?

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. alone, according to a report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (note: the full report requires membership, but this number is mentioned about 9 minutes into the video at the CSCMP site).

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

To get there, Musk needs not only the normal sort of investor confidence, but also for investors to buy into his radical vision for the company. Tesla is not exciting for investors purely as a normal car company; it’s exciting because it could be one of the world’s most valuable companies in a low-carbon future.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. Many Arthur Andersen employees overlooked the fact that Enron's financial reports were fraudulent.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In every presidential election year, it seems, editors come up with the idea to send reporters out in search of the same story: "Go find corporate bosses out there," they tell some cub, "who are trying to strong-arm their employees to vote for one candidate or the other." Unbelievably, every time, they find some. You probably won't sway them.

How To 8

How To Politics Influence Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. The Burn Rate 51 was made up mostly of now-forgotten companies like drkoop.com and CDNow. But it also included a certain Internet bookseller from Seattle. Suria was wrong about that.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. A trip through the HBR archives shows just how cutting-edge the company has been in so many ways for so long.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

At the same time, of course, Terry also had to meet her new responsibilities, which included filing status reports, assessing existing marketing programs, and devising team budgets while attending now-required staff meetings, department meetings, global conference calls, and so on. Managing Yourself Book. Hill and Kent Lineback.

Management 8

Management Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

After watching a presentation by Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom at a conference last year , I went up to the front of the room to ask him a question about macroeconomics. Goldbloom founded the company after working as a macroeconomic modeler at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury.

GDP 9

GDP Bond Sample Sharpe 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it.

Blog 302

Blog Brand Media Influence 302

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Indeed, the FAA wasn’t actually prepared to release the draft rules when it did, but in a snafu that highlights the underlying problem here, the agency’s hand was forced when industry watchers discovered a report analyzing the economics of the proposed rules inadvertently posted on the FAA’s website.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I refuse to dignify this attack with a response,” said Henry Guillart, the CEO, just hours after Hughes had given his initial negative presentation at an investor conference in New York. Terranola is the company behind those granola bar machines you see on every kitchen counter nowadays. The Power of the Power Bar. Doom and Gloom.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

For years I've been working on helping companies to see how work, home, community, and self (mind, body, and spirit) can be mutually reinforcing; this is the "four-way wins" approach I describe in Total Leadership. I often encounter skepticism, but some companies get it. His wife is a finance director at another company.

P&L 9

P&L Long-term Learning-by-Doing Team 9

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Great communicators can tailor a message such that they can speak to 10 people in a conference room or 1,000 people in an auditorium and have them feel as if you were speaking directly to each one of them as an individual. Speak to groups as individuals : Leaders don’t always have the luxury of speaking to individuals in an intimate setting.

Tips 388

Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 388

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Before you even close the door, she tells you she’s found another job and is leaving the company. It’s important to first understand your company’s HR procedures for handling these situations. “They probably already have a start date at their other company.” How do you cover her responsibilities?

Case Study 8

Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

You can build one even before you leave your job by attending relevant conferences, reaching out to people through LinkedIn or Twitter, or joining a group of freelancers or small business owners in your area. But do make sure you’re not violating any of your current company’s policies or your employment contract.

Planning 8

Planning Outsourcing Case Study Consultative 8

Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

  David describes SelfGrowth.com as a "Matching or Connecting Service for People who Want to Improve their Health, their Finances, their Relationships and their happiness" that helps to "Connect people who want to improve their lives with information, experts, products and services that can teach or show them how to do it. .

Directory 113

Directory Human Resources Resources Blog 113

Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2018

Your utility bills can be a big drain on your finances if you don’t shop around for the best deals. Going to a cheaper marketing company may mean losing your results entirely. Many businesses even report their plans to shrink their footprints to less than 100 square feet of dedicated office space per worker by the end of this year.

Outsourcing 52

Outsourcing Energy Software Credit Scoring 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A House-Senate conference committee still needs to reconcile the two bills, with the goal of finishing before Christmas. The legislation would dramatically change how both companies and individuals pay taxes. companies receive from their foreign affiliates, the bills remove the incentive for U.S. Daniel Haskett/Getty Images.

Company 9

Company Intangible Assets Incentives Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. One client in San Francisco who works with a fast-growing tech company shared that she gets up at 4 a.m. “Is this normal?”

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. So why did investors punish the company? per share by nearly a dime.

Christensen 12

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We became regular attendees at an annual transgender health conference, where conference-goers can learn about everything from surgical advances in gender transition procedures to mental health treatments uniquely suited to transgender individuals’ experiences. wearing LGBT affinity group pins or clothing to company events).

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Survey Process Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. Although he was doing well and liked his team and his company, he felt that his workdays alternated between feeling every minute tick by and putting out fires. anniepaddington/Getty Images. Sure, our current job has lost its spark, but it’s stable.

Career 13

Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The debates ( pro and con ) around these projects have brought data journalism out of its niche in digital media conferences and trade publications into the limelight. These new media outlets have been received with both praise and criticism. Why does this matter? How could things be different?

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Media Analysis Project 10