Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.".

CEO 15

CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. Fans everywhere screamed, Joan! I spoke with him about his findings. HBR: Whats the main takeaway of the research?

Cooper 11

Cooper Rogers Advertising Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). A company that misses one generation may find it hard to catch up, especially if it has also lost internal process engineering know-how.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. African consumers know about the best global products, and local ones are expected to match them on price and quality. Even in agriculture, digital technology is working.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. It is something I call community financing. There are many examples of Community Finance initiatives around the world, some large some small. My father''s experience is mirrored all over the world.

Banking 9

Banking Finance Globalization Film 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Risk management processes don't — but they should. The pharmaceutical industry also creates products with complex interactions and potentially dangerous side effects. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk.

Banking 10

Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. It is something I call community financing. There are many examples of Community Finance initiatives around the world, some large some small. My father’s experience is mirrored all over the world.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Globalization Film 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

At the other extreme, cross-border flows of certain types of private or public data, such as well production for a global oil producer or anonymous aggregated statistics, may be better left unfettered. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank. In contrast, the U.S.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. It used to be that “serving a city” meant selling a product or service directly to city governments. Getting this right involves an often-painful process of enforcing guidelines about mandates and responsibilities.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]

Management 16

Management Engineering Price Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Investors preferred new SaaS products over product conversions and valued having a product fallback option. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

First, data cooperatives or pooling involve corporations and other entities joining together to create shared data resources. Shared (often aggregated) corporate data can be used to create intelligence products such as tools, dashboards, reports, apps, and other technical devices to support public or humanitarian objectives.

Company 9

Company Policies Media Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For example, open-minded and curious CEOs create an entrepreneurial culture, driven and intense CEOs create a culture of results and achievement, and altruistic CEOs create a culture of empathy and cooperation. Third, CEOs’ reputations — their public personas — affect company valuations and stock prices. In the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

They have defied assurances by market regulators that they offer fair products and services in the exchanges. But a reform must go beyond simply replicating processes in the SEC, NASDAQ, and NYSE; it must pioneer new ways to address problems in places with fledgling legal systems and criminal justice institutions.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 8

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. How do we implement an agile mindset to incorporate both sides of the productivity equation? Part of this process takes a bit of self-awareness and honest assessment.

Agility 50

Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Zaleznik chronicled how he saw American managers, influenced by the rising popularity of the human relations school, turn increasingly from the substantive work of organizations — creating products and services, cultivating markets, pleasing customers, cutting costs, and getting stuff done — to what he termed "psychopolitics."

Management 9

Management Cooper Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Googles proposed metatags may not provide visibility in quite the way a publisher wants, as they assume a single originating source, not a formal syndication process. Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. No ad hominem attacks.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

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? And that process has only begun.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

Importantly, the above processes concern the psychological factors (rather than the technical skills) underlying both individual and team performance. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. In our own work we found that psychological team roles are largely a product of people’s personalities. Amy Jen Su.

Skills 8

Skills Team Cooper Emotional Intelligence 8