Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

You’ve likely experienced a fair amount of credit card companies trying to entice you via offers in the mail. We may think we are above the influence that stress has on our finances, but studies indicate the contrary. This is because companies charge an extra 2-3% on all purchases to merchants. High-Interest Rates.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I just read the most fascinating book by Bill Browder - Red Notice - a True Story or High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice. And since Browder's company had money, they figured out how to steal it and use it to embezzle over $200,000,000 from the Russian government. He was wildly successful in a dangerous environment.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2020

They believe the key is the growth rates of companies that adopt very different strategies, with those whose investments focus more on capital than workers seeming to enjoy greater success than those whose investments are more people-oriented. “That’s our key point.” ” Superstar firms. Uneven spread.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

Our company is not just a web development agency; we are the technology partners of several start-ups. Our company is not only interested in the development hours paid by the project owner, but also in the success of a project, the development of additional features, maintenance capacity, and scalability. Risk No 2: Shortcuts.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Even at a little company, there’s more random stuff than you would think (DNA, DEA, bacteria, electrical engineering, IT, etc.) Paid on a type of “commission” basis, but you earn a percentage of the fee a client pays the company (most clients are banks, at least at my company). BEST JOB EVER.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

How much better would our interactions with companies become? Happy clients that go wild about you because of the surprising way you serve their needs. Being helpful comes with a price, and the price is more work. But what if the tables were turned and the risk was actually in saying “no.” The result? Reducing the work a customer.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Your cannot successfully manage someone's company brand without knowing how to manage your own brand. Thanks Oarabile nobilify Interesting post Mike.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

But the fact is that in the Wild West of investing, an Annie Oakley is rare — the realm of investing is still very much a dude ranch. So if you feel uncomfortable as an investor, here are two bullets to pack in your pistol: Investing is about financing dreams. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Companies like Google are heightening expectations around data-driven personalization. If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Patagonia is spreading expectations around supply chain transparency.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But don’t be discouraged; for many the hard work is worth it when you consider the freedom over your own time and finances. If you’re not willing to get out there and present your company to the world, you probably aren’t ready to start your own business. Here are 8 signs that you might not be ready for it (yet).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

So, he took steps to eliminate what he believed were negative effects on company productivity. In three years’ time, he wanted Atos to be a “zero-email” company. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

But in this brief investigation by Beth Kowitt and Colleen Leahey, it''s pretty clear that having an idea and running a company are very different things — and that Wilson may only sort of know how to do the latter. Pharma companies are unable to produce new depression drugs because "scientists don''t even know where to begin."

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The core argument to compel institutional investors to change how they influence companies and where they invest their money is simple: as the world pivots away from carbon-based energy to avoid devastating climate change, fossil fuel assets, like coal plants or off-shore oil rigs, will be “stranded” — a wonky term for “worthless.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A 30-something entrepreneur in the Bay area, he had just closed a multi-million dollar round of Series A financing for his startup. However, it cannot distinguish between a saber-toothed tiger in the wild and a harsh email. a company downsizing), reward (e.g. Steve should have been celebrating.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. For example, many, if not most, of the Chinese products we buy every day are produced by German-made machinery, and the companies that make them are thriving. But the fairy tale that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Angela is a brilliant graphic designer who worked in-house for big companies before striking out on her own. Sometimes the margins are too thin (personal finance author Ramit Sethi derides textbook exchange businesses and t-shirt companies as "stupid frat-boy business ideas"). You're too emotionally attached.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. Build the future for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

At the time, Apple was a less-than-successful computer company, and Steve – ever the loner – had moved on to create Next, another less-than-successful one. I’ve often been told by spectacularly intelligent Stanford students, sheepishly, that they have accepted a well-paying job at a big established company.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Case studies on companies that have failed to invest in IT innovations, and the resulting business impacts--usually disastrous--abound.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. TIAA-CREF, the big financial services company, includes customer loyalty score improvement in senior executive compensation. In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Two well-known companies have also made auctions famous, and economists have played central roles in the success of each. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Making sure the company's key processes are delivering competitive advantage , or if not, that the right fixes are on the way.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

— and if your company doesn’t already have a women’s network , start one. A working paper by Lily Fang, an associate professor of finance at INSEAD, and Sterling Huang, a Ph.D. This could suggest that women need to have more advantages to even get into finance in the first place. What a wild idea.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Shore up your company’s first line of defense. When cross referenced with data purchased from a third-party finance app that knows the same individual’s payment card spending habits at the local bar, suddenly you can see the value of behavioral biometrics to the liquor, beer, and wine industry. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

This describes lots of modern digital enterprises — think Google and Airbnb — as well as most traditional media companies, and has been discussed a lot already in this week’s coverage. Then, in 2006, came The Theory of Corporate Finance — not a field Tirole had really been known for. Corporate finance? Since when?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Actually witnessing capture in the wild is different, though, and the new This American Life episode with secret recordings of bank examiners at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York going about their jobs is going to focus a lot more attention on the phenomenon. Ethics Finance Government' This won’t be an easy thing to fix.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

With growing congestion a global megatrend, companies have a choice. For instance, Procter & Gamble’s logistics costs already exceed such key value-adding costs as manufacturing, even though the company mainly ships by land. What companies can do. These are just the first-order costs of congestion.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Their moods swing wildly from this state of exuberance to the polar opposite, and they suddenly can become withdrawn and inert, shunning the company of others. Apparently John had been reckless with his personal finances and had been involved in numerous affairs. It’s a condition often associated with highly creative people.

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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. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0 Emotional buoyancy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It was the form in which the asset was financed. One is finance and the other is non-finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

However, most companies require considerable planning and need both a competitive advantage and a solid business plan in order to succeed. For my company, I focused on a big market and found a profitable and attractive niche. If you''re thinking about starting your own company, here''s my advice: Set realistic expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. When many companies reflect, they choose to use third-, fourth-, or fifth-hand data. Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Though she liked the stability of her role as head of communications for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), which finances private-sector ventures in developing countries, she could feel her interest in her role beginning to wane. The key is to take small actions, and to do so deliberately.

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