Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors.

Finance 11

Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 11

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. Consensus isn’t the goal. Good input is.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Establish Common Goals. Develop New Business Models. Build Trust Among the Actors.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), developed through a principles-based approach, are followed by over 100 countries.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

This includes getting buy-in toward a common goal. The General Manager and his team seemed not to realize that these disparate goals were a fundamental problem — both for the division's performance and for employee inner work life. In fact, we saw conditions that actually pitted departments against one another.

Management 16

Management Engineering Price Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This sweeping development known as “common ownership” – the same firms owning the competing firms in the same industry – is relatively new. On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Bank marketing materials focus on the dreams, anxieties and goals of consumers. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. Researchers also observed increased cooperation and effort among individual players.

Banking 10

Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. In 2010, J.P

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Some of the investments had the sophisticated deal structures of large corporate transactions, some showed private sector engagement driving infrastructure development and quality-of-life improvement, and all demonstrated growing connections between policy and profit at national and international levels.

Commitment 9

Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

That is an astonishing development. The goal is to ensure the actual time spent without a job is short, while the level of qualification (and compensation) is preferably kept up when a new job is found. This is especially important at this juncture, because it points to very real-life paths out of the present economic conundrum.

Policies 12

Policies Marketing Learning-by-Doing Cooper 12

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The goal in business is to bring in more money than you spend over the long run. To do that, you need to obtain the cooperation, support, and goodwill of many people. Develop a sense of humor. Meanwhile, the underlying interpersonal dynamics—the methods of creating and managing relationships—are fundamentally unchanged.

Management 234

Management Advertising Document Learning-by-Doing 234

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Do we really want to beat India at developing clean tech, cheap medical devices, and affordable housing? Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. This measurable goal will help focus attention and galvanize stakeholders into action. How about if, as nations, we win together?

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. Adjust strategies to meet goals. Transform your workforce from a team of individuals who wait for orders to a cooperative force that acts proactively to make decisions. Change begins at the top.

Agility 50

Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

cooperation on global trade will be compromised for some time if the tariffs go into effect. SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. negotiators.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8