Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

It reinforced all the people-centric policies of the company. I once hired someone with excellent “pedigree” i.e. fine university training, JA program volunteer, excellent work record in finance and extraordinarily enthusiastic about Junior Achievement. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB’s resurgence is further fueled by the uncertain markets hindering many companies’ efforts to attract fresh capital, as we see venture capital and private equity funds increasingly pushing ZBB on their portfolio companies, in the hope of securing a more rapid and profitable exit on their investments.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. And no one should doubt that what happens in the next few months is extremely important—as former cabinet officer Wilbur Cohen said, good policy is 1% inspiration and 99% implementation.

Insurance 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

One such company that could be made better is Walmart: a fundamentally good (if not great) company that has long-suffered from substantial criticism by both analysts and outsiders related to everything from its employment and sourcing practices to its low-pricing policies. You can follow him on Twitter @mauriceewing. RSS Feed: [link].

Engineering 14

Engineering PR How To Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In comparison to larger firms, small businesses are less well equipped to efficiently navigate the loan process  in economic parlance, their search costs are higher. Although the online small business lending market is in its infancy, there is already disagreement over the appropriate level of regulation.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It is designed to make one aspect of shopping, price comparisons, very simple. Thus, the simplicity of Amazons price comparison goes away. Unless you take the store price, remember what the sales tax rate is and open a calculator app, you cant make a precise comparison. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

Retail 13

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Some of the investments had the sophisticated deal structures of large corporate transactions, some showed private sector engagement driving infrastructure development and quality-of-life improvement, and all demonstrated growing connections between policy and profit at national and international levels. These opinions matter.

Banking 8

Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Consumer Products and Banking and Finance are two other major concentration industries. Further research will be required to gain insights into the performance of immigrant leadership talent in comparison with the overall population of business leaders. Where do they work? Yet, stricter U.S.

Execution 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’d like to share what I learned while leading an SBM — to help other states as they navigate the health insurance landscape and, more broadly, to inform health-system leaders, employers, and policy makers about the challenges SBMs face and the solutions they’re developing. A new consumer mindset. Financial challenges.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

link] mikemyatt Thanks for the great comparison between humility and narcissism. The opposite characteristic – narcissism, as expected, kills morale, decreases engagement and ultimately lowers productivity and end results. Thank you for continuing to share your keen insight. You are spot-on with your observations Ben.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. When we buy an insurance policy at an individual household level or for a large, complex business or project, the only items that seal the deal are some papers with promissory statements.

Insurance 9

Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Public pension funds nationwide lost at least $6.4

Ethics 61

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 61

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Thus, technological innovation in these sectors tends to be financed by the government and carried out within government or quasi-government laboratories. Some of the government’s policies and practices, designed ostensibly to help China become an innovation giant, are themselves a major impediment.

Innovation 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

“Asia pivot” policy: Americans think of international relations like a movie, imagining that we can hit the pause button when we need to and then push play when we want to return. But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. And once again, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. For comparison, they hold around 0.6%–0.7% It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. jobs overall.)

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I researched the cabinet members of our first 10 Presidents and compared them with our current cabinet members, and what I found simply confirmed the sentiments that I described above. Do you see the difference yet between politicians and statesmen? We simply need to restore principled leadership in Washington.

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