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. In addition to across-the-board monetary and fiscal policy measures, many of them targeted specific sectors and even specific firms as growth poles.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The company continued to operate day-to-day, but since the partnership required consensus, all major decisions were postponed. All members of the third generation could have become owners, while changes in the compensation policy would have rewarded those contributing to the success of the business.

Operations 8

Operations Competitive Advantage Consensus Policies 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

MAY 4, 2012

After more than 18 months, a dozen and a half summits, multiple rounds of austerity, a trillion dollars of liquidity, and now elections in Greece and France that threaten to overturn the fragile policy consensus in Europe, the Euro-crisis rumbles on.

Crisis 11

Crisis Bond Banking Short-term 11

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. It's hard for us to gauge if this is an obvious point or not to people. One of the incidents that made it clear to us started way back in 1999.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

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. Integrating comprehensive services will require significant changes in culture, infrastructure, training, regulation, and financing. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

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.

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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 286

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Political sentiment has turned against globalization and the political and economic policies that promoted it. As this mood is translated into policy, the structural advantages of multinational corporations are coming under threat from five main sources. But this ascendancy is under threat.

Politics 8

Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A CEO could be forgiven for thinking it’s safest to only weigh in on political issues that affect operational and strategic goals, industry dynamics, or a company’s regulatory and policy landscape. Tech companies, for example, had little to gain strategically by opposing the Trump administration’s family separation policy.

CEO 10

CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

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. It’s very profitable.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 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. Britain), saw a much quicker recovery in the 1930s.

Crisis 11

Crisis Policies Banking Politics 11