Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

This instability meant that Japan was unable to iron out a national consensus on its reform plan, or implement reforms in the long run. Even though the Japanese government dared to take deficit financing in order to boost the economy, it mostly injected money into building infrastructure, but didn’t expand spending on welfare much.

Consensus 8

Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. On the theoretical side, there seems to be much less consensus than there was 50 years ago about what rational behavior under uncertainty even looks like. Economy Finance Risk management' In macroeconomics, too. Maybe that’s just me.

Cooper 8

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Before the financial crisis ushered in the current global economic downturn, there was a strong intellectual consensus among mainstream economists and policymakers about the merits of free trade. Did all this serve to prevent discriminatory and selective state intervention during the crisis era?

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

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. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 10

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

In the 1990s, the consensus seemed to be that for the U.S. In the long aftermath of a global financial crisis, with deflation a real threat, the U.S. Economy Finance Research' the inflection point was a public debt/GDP ratio of 50% — which is exactly what the country was nearing at the time. Now, of course, U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Sample Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

It's a question that has defied consensus, with valid arguments on both sides of the issue. As highlighted by the financial crisis, the world is rife with unpredictable forces that can affect revenue streams, costs of goods and services, and mark-to-market accounting judgments. First, let's review the case for guidance.

CFO 10

CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Sitting at an annual event on a well-known Alp, Chris saw Washington Consensus capitalism come up against emerging economy pragmatism. The "Asian Contagion" currency crisis that depressed Thailand, Indonesian, South Korean and other currencies by as much as 70% was not yet over. Larry Summers, then Deputy Secretary of the U.S.

Banking 10

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

These diagnostics could have helped end the epidemic much sooner, but were never deployed because of a lack of consensus on how they should be used as well as a validation process focused on laboratory-based evaluations rather than testing in real-life conditions where the RDT ultimately performed much better.

Crisis 8

Crisis Decentralization System Travel 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. In part these may be fed by the fact it is easy to find social consensus.”. growth and dynamism.

Innovation 82

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 82

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. If your marketing doesn’t uphold your brand promise or if it’s not advancing core business initiatives, then you have an alignment issue.

Blog 303

Blog Marketing Succession Brand 303

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The financial crisis of 2008 is often attributed to deregulation and unfettered capitalism. Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. But this ascendancy is under threat.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

While the whole world has been adopting a pragmatic consensus on economic policy since the Great Recession, Europe — and Germany in particular — is stubbornly sticking to a policy that has all the downsides of the old classical gold standard. This already made one crisis solution — inflation — much harder to do.

Crisis 10

Crisis Policies Banking Politics 10