Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. I didn't get it. I was against it."

Finance 10

Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. In stark contrast, very few of the companies we surveyed were using AI to eliminate jobs altogether. Insight Center.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Even if they don’t become providers of systems or services, many companies will need to adapt in some way as cities become more digitally connected.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Perhaps most importantly for leaders, good conflict resolution ability equals good employee retention.

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Blog Fashion Brand Self-aware 417

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building basics are often overlooked by ineffective leaders or unproductive companies. I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

First, data cooperatives or pooling involve corporations and other entities joining together to create shared data resources. Still, many companies (and others) continue to balk at the prospect of sharing “their” data, which is an understandable response given the reflex to guard corporate interests.

Company 9

Company Policies Media Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

While a SaaS announcement on average neither decreases nor increases company value, we find big differences depending on the specifics of what’s announced. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Why, then, do company boards and shareholders of most firms approve those packages? Except that the performance that they’re rewarding is industry performance, not company performance. public companies. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In industry after industry, companies have gone global with something approaching abandon, often with little regard for the local communities that gave them life.). It is something I call community financing. There are many examples of Community Finance initiatives around the world, some large some small.

Banking 9

Banking Finance Globalization Film 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Why do companies get caught up in illegal behavior, harassment, and toxic leadership? rogue traders in finance). blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. The business case against masculinity contests.

Organization 8

Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

A transport company like TNT is a typical beneficiary of globalization. But we got returns on our investment as well: Our employees were proud of the company and eager to participate; the disaster areas provided some of the best training on how to solve complex dilemmas; and of course the reputation of the company improved tremendously.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. ” What Peltz suggested is exactly what Xiaomi is already doing.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In industry after industry, companies have gone global with something approaching abandon, often with little regard for the local communities that gave them life.). It is something I call community financing. There are many examples of Community Finance initiatives around the world, some large some small.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Globalization Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Last year Facebook became the second largest e-commerce company in Africa after Jumia, the industry leader. Online, geography does not protect a company from competition. The implication is massive: Naspers, Africa’s largest company by market capitalization, recently exited its classified e-commerce business in some markets.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

The recent history of Uber reads like a Shakespearean tragedy, and there are plenty of opinions about where the company went wrong and what it needs to do going forward. Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. This equated to an average of more than 8.5

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now. To escape this quandary, a number of companies are considering alternative asset ownership and operation models, whose objective is to reduce capital outlays, investment risk, or both.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Collaboration across departments or units of the same company will likely be a good thing only if managers set up the conditions for what Morten Hansen — citing Procter & Gamble's collaborative innovation as a prime example — calls " disciplined collaboration." This includes getting buy-in toward a common goal.

Management 16

Management Engineering Price Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

Good companies always strive to be better and a potentially useful way to catalyze such improvement is to consider how analyst and public criticism might be used to institute corporate change. Indeed, a 2006 campaign by the company's PR firm only made matters worse until Lee Scott, the previous CEO, temporarily turned things around.

Engineering 14

Engineering PR How To Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, company-wide variables, such as culture and engagement , play a big role in determining the fate of organizations, so why should we pay CEOs so highly and obsess over which ones are the best ? Third, CEOs’ reputations — their public personas — affect company valuations and stock prices. million.

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In the medium to long term the new government (or its successor) can succeed in keeping Greece in the Euro-zone and restoring national and international confidence in its finances if and only if: It can implement the structural reforms and complies with the other conditions required by the EU and the IMF in order to provide the funds; It can establish (..)

Crisis 14

Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

First, private-sector entrepreneurs need to keep identifying opportunities to build companies that can accept and use impact capital to grow to scale, providing an increasing capacity for deal flow. Third, growing impact investing will take collaboration and cooperation. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues'

Commitment 9

Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

Take Philips Electronics with its lighting, medical equipment, and consumer electronics divisions; ThyssenKrupp with its steel, elevators, and engineering services units; or smaller companies such as Trinity Mirror, which offers newspapers, printing, and digital services. That's true; there is a rationale.

Strategy 8

Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

At that time, industries were mostly self-contained within countries, allowing Japan to cultivate internationally competitive companies through targeted investment and trade barriers. Simply because of its size, it commands attention in global negotiations on trade, finance, and the environment.

Comparison 13

Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

After the fall of Lehman Brothers, the cascading dominoes spread around the world crippling markets and decimating companies. As investigations exposed all the myriad contributions to the market collapse, the asymmetries between the audited statements and what was happening in companies were mind-blowing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Often, when I’m asked to give a speech on strategy at some company event or conference, I find that one of the other speakers is a former professional sports player. The message for managers is clear: this is the way to outcompete your business rivals; these are the traits that will bring you and your company commercial victory.

Sports 8

Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This decision may be the most important of the your company's entire history. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Of course, this is the ideal description of any person at your company. Not a bad idea, of course. How do you pick the right person?

How To 15

How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Just last month, a self-organized team from another Indian company, Mahindra and Mahindra , (M&M) won the corporate award for our own $300 House Open Design Challenge (with the help of Jovoto.com and prize sponsor Ingersoll Rand, we hosted a global online contest to raise interest in design for the poor.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. What should countries and companies do if we are right and the challenge this time around is a serious one?

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. Leaders and managers at start-ups (and all other companies, frankly) should be required to address human capital non-compliance risk, just as they are expected to address financial non-compliance risk.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But the advent of Big Data, sophisticated modeling techniques, and robust algorithms are opening a door to cooperation and opportunities that have never been possible before. CROs are deeply familiar with the troves of risk data, such as payment habits and internal credit scores, that their companies keep.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Testifying unhappily before America’s Congress, Volkswagen of America CEO Michael Horn adamantly and defiantly identified the true authors of his company’s disastrous “ defeat device ” deception: “This was not a corporate decision. Indeed, world-class companies will go outside for inspiration and insight.

Engineering 8

Engineering Management Software Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

With thousands of submissions for a single vacancy, companies must be more diligent when sorting the wheat from the chaff. Many rely on HR managers to screen out applicants who aren't qualified for the job or a good fit for the company. Not all companies treat HR screens in the same way. First, thoroughly research the company.

Sample 15

Sample Case Study Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

To do that, you need to obtain the cooperation, support, and goodwill of many people. Wiener , the founder and a member of David Wiener and Company LLC, an affiliate of EisnerAmper LLP. Meanwhile, the underlying interpersonal dynamics—the methods of creating and managing relationships—are fundamentally unchanged.

Management 235

Management Advertising Document Learning-by-Doing 235

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Looking forward toward the next decade and beyond, we are seeing countries increasingly prize sovereignty over multilateralism, national interests over international cooperation, and local constituencies over global populations. In short, the tide of globalization washing across boundaries for so long has reached a peak and is receding.

Globalization 14

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14