Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested. Global business'

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. 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

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective.

Dunning 52

Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economy Finance Risk management'

Cooper 8

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 8

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. If venturing into the job market as the economy rebounds is on your radar screen, now's the time to take some proactive steps.

Career 15

Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. Baruch Lev: Investors' resentment, after the worst stock market decade in recent history, numerous accounting scandals and managerial pay abuses, is at all-time high and is very damaging. Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

Or worse, when managers and boards of directors (like those at UnitedHealth ) fall prey to wanting to be well-liked instead of running a business well, that's its own guise of title without obligation. As can becoming a benevolent dictator to my staff, deciding that seeking consensus is no longer required.

Innovation 15

Innovation Consensus Entrepreneur Creativity 15

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. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. As best I can tell, there is no such methodological consensus in sociology, political science, anthropology, or history at the moment.

Tversky 10

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Consider the story of Bud Frankel, the founder of Frankel , a firm that created the marketing services industry (where both of us eventually worked) that gained a national reputation and attracted clients across both the consumer and healthcare areas.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Investors reward companies (such as Apple and Kimberly-Clark ) whose current performance or guidance for the future exceeds market expectations, and they punish companies (as they did Starbucks and Procter & Gamble ) whose performance or guidance fails to meet expectations.

CFO 11

CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 11

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

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. So managers shouldn't make assumptions that foreign governments choose their favorites in the same way.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

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. vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6% Larry Summers, then Deputy Secretary of the U.S.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

After some investigating, they discovered that their fragmented, geographically dispersed matrix structure made it very difficult for the program managers to coordinate efforts across functions, keep everyone focused on the cost and delivery goals, and get people to reach consensus. Senior management knew this was an issue.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. That said, my typical pro-marketing position assumes that certain key fundamentals are in place to insure that the lunatics don’t somehow become in charge of the asylum.

Blog 303

Blog Marketing Succession Brand 303

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. Book vs. Market Weighting Factors Used for Debt and Equity in Calculation of WACC. .

Cost of Capital 12

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12

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 16

Technology Supply Chain Document Participative 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

Everyone from product managers, to call center reps, to the front-line worker in the branch or store uses information to make decisions. When Bill in Finance generates his monthly Top Line report, Craig in Marketing can leave a comment on the "Revenue" column inquiring, "Is this billed revenue or booked revenue?" And in a Web 2.0

Business Intelligence 13

Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S. Generational change is also playing a critical role in the expression of Chinese nationalism.

Globalization 14

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is a fascinating relationship between executives and the stock prices of the companies they manage. He calls it the "market signals approach," and it provided a lightning bolt of insight for me. He calls it the "market signals approach," and it provided a lightning bolt of insight for me.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Managers act more as enablers and connectors, providing regular feedback and tracking progress. Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

And yet for almost every company that uses CI in their decision-making, there’s another that disregards CI’s mix of industry analysis, rival positions, and market insight to their detriment. and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company CAPEX Analysis 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.”. Globally competitive. A changing landscape.

Innovation 86

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 86

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply. Rather than being apologetic, Sam criticized the manager for cutting him loose. Moreover, faculty and managers alike are under constant and growing time pressure. That time has passed.

Mentor 8

Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. It wasn’t for charity, of course.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

So read the whole thing, keeping in mind a particularly memorable quote from Aaron Weinstein, BART''s chief marketing officer: "We''re planning on ordering up to a thousand of these cars. To be sure, some say Apple doesn''t have the same allure, and others chafe at Cook''s discipline when it comes to finances and supply chains.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Follow-up Consensus CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The same dynamic may now complicate Google’s plans to re-enter China’s search market. At the same time, powerful sections of the investment community are amplifying demands that companies move beyond empty posturing to better manage their social, political, and environmental efforts. At a time when the U.S.

CEO 9

CEO Politics Policies Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. The battle lines may not be exactly what you’d expect: the U.S.

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 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. At the time, that did not seem like such a bad thing.

Crisis 11

Crisis Policies Banking Politics 11

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