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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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. While a SaaS announcement on average neither decreases nor increases company value, we find big differences depending on the specifics of what’s announced.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

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. Whether this will help J&J in the long run, no one knows.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

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.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. 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. Take a customer–life cycle approach.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

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

JULY 24, 2018

cooperation on global trade will be compromised for some time if the tariffs go into effect. SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy.

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Last year Facebook became the second largest e-commerce company in Africa after Jumia, the industry leader. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. Online, geography does not protect a company from competition.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

The Great Recession revealed one of the weakest links in Africa’s quest to build strong capital markets — bogus audited statements. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, the cascading dominoes spread around the world crippling markets and decimating companies.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 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

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 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.

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CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

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

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.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 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 8

Banking Finance Globalization Film 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

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. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

When we contrast our inspiring experience at Nexus alongside the still-limited impact- investment landscape, we conclude that three actions will be critical to accelerating the mobilization of capital by millennials and allowing impact investing to scale to a projected $1 trillion market by 2020. These opinions matter.

Commitment 9

Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The new government has met with the cautious approval of the EU, the IMF, the markets and the international press. Papademos with his intimate knowledge and experience of both Greek and of EU inner workings is trusted by the EU as a reliable counterpart.

Crisis 14

Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 14

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.

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Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 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. In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition.

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Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.". We also believe cooperation is necessary.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

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.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

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 15

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This decision may be the most important of the your company's entire history. If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Not a bad idea, of course.

How To 15

How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions.

Agility 50

Agility Process Management McKinsey 50