Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. Did it surprise him to find that there was so little consensus on the best way to solve the problem of assigning a cost to capital?

CAPM 13

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2019

No confusion, no mixed messages, no need for consensus-building or alignment, no persuasion necessary – just a very, very smooth path from sensing to fleeing. DECIDE) Those same managers may also decide on a course of action or bump it up the ranks to decide. and months pass… Meanwhile, the lion has eaten your lunch. (ACT)

Outsourcing 196

Outsourcing Trends Consensus Committee 196

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust. In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., Ask Solyndra.

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Interestingly, individuals working in customer service, sales, production, logistics and R&D were more likely to feel that bureaucracy was growing than those working in functions like HR, finance, planning, purchasing, and administration. As you ponder that question, we should note that there was one area of consensus.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

The athletes and coaches who traffic drugs or abuse children because the rules don't apply to them; millennials who, at a time of high unemployment, expect more concessions and perks, not fewer; politicians who can legally buy and sell stock based on non-public information. In a business, entitlement inhibits innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Consensus Entrepreneur Creativity 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Although the figures are elusive, the majority of data I've seen suggests that 40 to 50 percent of new hires at the middle level of management and above have not succeeded in their new companies 24 months after hire. Less visible are those who fail or flame out when they make the change. How strong is your external network?

Career 15

Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

” This information is essential, of course, but it leaves unanswered the more fundamental questions: “In your family business system, who gets to be an owner? The company continued to operate day-to-day, but since the partnership required consensus, all major decisions were postponed.

Operations 8

Operations Competitive Advantage Consensus Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. HR managers can use bots to train employees. This is not an argument against technology — it’s a recommendation for increased systems monitoring and regular conversations with IT managers. Here are eight to note for 2016.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

It's a question that has defied consensus, with valid arguments on both sides of the issue. Although the empirical evidence is mixed, this argument has intuitive logic: Because investors abhor uncertainty, knowing management's expectations is a valuable data point that can strengthen their confidence in the investment.

CFO 11

CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

A central question our civilization must address is how we can avoid becoming a planet of informal slums. In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Our communications technologies have dramatically improved, and we have instantaneous access to massive amounts of information. To illustrate this problem, we can look at one program manager – let’s call him Tom – who had to coordinate among a dozen specialized engineers. Senior management knew this was an issue.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Finance and business executives often joke that the word blockchain placed at the end of the company name is enough to increase the share price of any entity at least twofold. Supply Chain Management. Every participant in the transaction must agree on the documents, which will not become valid until there is a consensus.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Document Participative 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

Business executives are unaware of the extent to which their staffs routinely reinvent the wheel to get the information they need. Increasingly it's not just the number-crunchers in your organization who use information. In the report shown here, managers weigh in on the potential risks of being over budget.

Business Intelligence 14

Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Download this pdf for an executive summary, or login here for the full report.)

Cost of Capital 13

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. These include infant safety and injury prevention, social work, legal advocacy, case management, tutoring, fitness classes, nutrition and lactation, mental health, and dental care.

Health Care 9

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is a fascinating relationship between executives and the stock prices of the companies they manage. Rappaport showed that, in setting a price, the market offers a clear signal that can inform operational and financial decisions. Next, compare the expectations of the market with those of management.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply. We offer here an informal set of guidelines for good mentorship — a playbook, if you will, for a game that is very much a team sport. Rather than being apologetic, Sam criticized the manager for cutting him loose.

Mentor 8

Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. They are informative, actionable, and most importantly, replicable by other brands coupling with their content-tone.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

No single party controls the data or the information. Each node stores and forwards information to all other nodes. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance. Each party on a blockchain has access to the entire database and its complete history.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.” Economy Finance Risk management' John Fund, Inc. , Bratton and Michael L.

Training 8

Training Class Efficiency Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry Business Model Finance 8