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. Economy Finance Sustainability' degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C).

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Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

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. He succeeded in charming Wall Street … without ever deigning to participate in one of his company’s quarterly earnings conference calls or talking up its prospects on CNBC.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This comes at a significant financial and productivity cost to all organizations, as demonstrated by research in corporate settings : Onboarding an external hire can cost up to twice the departing executive’s salary, and the time it takes for an external hire to become productive is twice as long as for someone hired from within.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Discover the reporters in your area and profession. Other ideas: donate your expertise as an award, speak at the local library or school, and interview local officials to report for newsletters. Tom Peters reports that packaging on a store shelf is judged in.06 Cultivate the local media. 5% response is success!

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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.

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Career Skills Health Care Pharmaceuticals 8

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

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).

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Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 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. So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems.

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. What distinguishes it from lower cost Walmart or more convenient Amazon?

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 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. Our Freedom.

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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. He renamed his company and put a team of engineers to work solving the product’s mechanical, food safety, cost, and design flaws. A Veiled Threat.

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Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2018

Meetings simply aren’t productive, and this means they are costing you money. Your utility bills can be a big drain on your finances if you don’t shop around for the best deals. If you can keep things virtual as much as possible, you’ll be able to save money on overhead expenses and operating costs.

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Outsourcing Energy Software Credit Scoring 51

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. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

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. “We were lucky that my husband had a good job and we’d been smart about our finances.

Planning 8

Planning Outsourcing Case Study Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

“This little bit of redundancy doesn’t need to cost you more — think about whether you could hire two part-time people instead of one fulltime person.” It doesn’t have to be a big party; “it could be coffee and donuts in the conference room.” ” Have a party. But the news was a blow.

Case Study 8

Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. Look at your major spending categories to identify cost-saving opportunities. Can you cut your commuting costs by using public transportation? In addition to the usual cost-saving measures, they sold one of their cars and shared one car between them.

Career 12

Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 12

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. And because the corporate proposals lose revenue, it’s impossible to fully assess this part of the legislation without considering how those cuts would eventually be financed. Daniel Haskett/Getty Images.

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Company Intangible Assets Incentives Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

In fact, the marketing of cars, as Fortune reported in 1938, became one of the “most inefficient parts of the whole American economy … [N]early one-third of the price you pay for a new automobile goes to cover the cost of getting it from the factory to you.” A central office kept track of finances and the allocation of resources.

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Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. Sullivan has read numerous sales books and attended conferences, but says most provide no more than a brief sugar high. They don't have what it takes. MORE ON SMARTER SALES.

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Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 16