Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

He advocated for a “boundaryless organization,” and to build it, he initiated what became known as the GE Work-Out process – a series of structured and facilitated forums, bringing people together across levels, functions, and geographies to solve problems and make decisions in real time.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 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

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

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. More than one-third of organizations forecast explicit cash flows for the first 10 years of a project.

Cost of Capital 12

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Only about 18% of interlocks were international in 1976, and most of those were transatlantic links in finance and energy — two of the first industries to begin globalizing. Shell’s Board Interlocks, 1976. There’s a distinct cultural approach to boards in these regions.

Crisis 8

Crisis Globalization Banking Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

We recently asked members of the HBR community to gauge the extent of “bureaucratic sclerosis” within their organization using our Bureaucracy Mass Index (BMI) tool. Of the respondents who reported a BMI of less than 40, three-fourths worked in organizations with fewer than 100 employees.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. They have to in order to communicate and to reach consensus with others who may not share the same experiences or perspectives.

Power 12

Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. This requires sorting out the appropriate level of the organization responsible for key functions and clarifying decision rights, or, indeed whether it is more efficient to outsource those functions than to provide them in-house. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

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. As a large team cares for patients, clear and efficient pathways for communication and workflows are necessary to ensure the patient experience is as seamless and organized as possible.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

Increasingly it's not just the number-crunchers in your organization who use information. 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 come to a consensus-based decision.

Business Intelligence 13

Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Edward Freeman and others regarding stakeholder theory, which offers a way of examining the interests of all groups affected by an organization — not just shareholders but also customers, employees, governments, suppliers, and communities. It draws on the work of R. At a time when the U.S. So the paradoxes multiply.

CEO 10

CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Claman recommends scheduling a meeting with the two of them and other colleagues to try to come to a consensus. Schedule a meeting with them and other colleagues to come to a consensus. I said that I was looking out for the long-term success of the organization and that I thought it was important for the three of us to talk.”

Consensus 8

Consensus Case Study Long-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

In the Valley, the leaders who are shaking things up combine a palpable vision with tenacity and the ability to build an organization that attracts other top thinkers. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Determined to get closer to their customers and become more agile and innovative, global organizations like IBM and GE are embracing the matrix organizational model. Influence and conflict management capabilities help leaders to build consensus around a common purpose and deliver the collaborative solutions that the matrix requires.

Management 14

Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Talented managers often get frustrated by their pace of career advancement, sign on with a new company, and run into the same problems that were an obstacle in their prior organization. For example, Frank was a highly-skilled finance manager who advanced quickly early in his career based on his technical knowledge and desire for results.

Career 15

Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Already, the World Trade Organization reports a rise in protectionist measures by the G20 countries, with 1,583 added since 2008 and only 387 removed. Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Organizations that entered when VC fundings were booming were increasingly likely to fail, and those financed in a VC funding boom were unlikely to make it to an IPO. The loners, those willing to go against the consensus, are anything but predictable. Nonconformist thinking has the best potential for genius.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. As a leader in his company, Bud used what he called “Management by Wandering Around” (MBWA), where he’d stop into offices and ask the opinions of employees, clients, and others to gather insights about his organization and clients.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

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. Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do."

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields. That is the one area where “intelligent organizations” differ most from others. Management was open to perspectives that were different from the internal consensus.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company CAPEX Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

Kaggle organizes competitions in which data scientists (which in most cases means anybody who wants to sign up) compete to build predictive models based on huge troves of data. In the 1990s, the consensus seemed to be that for the U.S. Economy Finance Research' with much higher interest rates on government debt.

GDP 9

GDP Bond Sample Sharpe 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

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. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Their content marketing service is among the best due to its use of strategic longform content which drives significant organic traffic from Google and turns those into leads to be nurtured by email marketing automation. They have a wonderful "white-board" approach to teaching their audience the ways to build Google traffic organically.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

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.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

There is strong bipartisan consensus that our current level of health care spending does not deliver sufficient value in terms of individual or population health. These efforts have addressed the infrastructure, processes, and financing (e.g., A Role for Specialists in Resuscitating Accountable Care Organizations.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Insurance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Zika virus an international public health emergency. Though not yet confirmed, Zika is suspected of causing microcephaly — babies born with small heads and abnormal brain development — and paralysis in adults.

Crisis 8

Crisis Decentralization System Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Trends are a way of seeing and interpreting our current reality, providing a useful framework to organize our thinking, especially when we’re hunting for the unknown. News organizations will soon use bots to sort and tag articles in real time. If your organization is approached next year, what will you do? Blockchain.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

This is perhaps even more the case in the world of management outside of academic medicine — whether it is finance, consulting, or technology — as the path from professional to senior executive requires more than individual success. A mentee should be curious, organized, efficient, responsible, and engaged.

Mentor 8

Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. I actually am optimistic that we can get there; there’s a fair amount of consensus about that. The corporate inversion — when a U.S. What is the dividing line here?

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 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. There are some organizations, including Abra and Bitage, who are spearheading the blockchain money transfer phenomenon. Supply Chain Management.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Document Participative 13