Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Business development. Ask a true business strategist to help you to determine which consultants are needed, draft the requests for proposals, evaluate credentials and recommend contracting options. Look at their activity in professional development and business education. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

Consultative 61

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 61

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Since then, as the composition of top executive teams has changed, responsibility for leading strategy development has been shared by more members of the C-suite. In our experience at McKinsey, creating this ideal partnership usually requires the CFO to become more directly and deeply involved in strategy development.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments. “Clearly all of this reflects some sober reevaluation of the VC role in cleantech finance,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, adding that “We’ve maybe asked too much of VC.”

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. Any impact on prices would depend on how much spare capacity there is in the economy.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results. As a consequence, salespeople tend to sell to anyone they can, often at discounted prices to make a volume quota target. But a market never buys anything.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Mnangagwa is clear that he wants to rebuild the economy and start fresh with foreign businesses.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities.

Strategy 9

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation. The idea that employees could contribute their own money to help kickstart a provocative proposal is organizational heresy.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Until some dramatic development galvanizes people to act, they sit on the shelf. Congestion pricing. In what has now become an iconic statement about American politics, and maybe politics everywhere, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (now Chicago Mayor) declared that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”

Politics 8

Politics Health Care Budgeting Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Innovations in spatial sciences, combined with big data, raise the possibility of the insurance industry introducing innovative pricing strategies that induce private real estate owners and local governments to take efforts that together yield a more resilient real estate capital stock. Dating back to at least F.

Insurance 8

Insurance Real Estate Industry Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In our view, while the proposal to ban dual-class shares raises important issues, its implementation would do more harm than good, given the challenges from the digital revolution and the growing imperative for established firms to transform their business models. Influential institutional investors or Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchanges?

Class 8

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Leading retailers have developed the ability to nimbly change direction, even based on beta testing.

Retail 8

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

We propose an answer to that question in our new research paper. This sweeping development known as “common ownership” – the same firms owning the competing firms in the same industry – is relatively new. It has resulted in higher prices in the airline and banking industries.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

It faced a 21% prime rate on its floating debt, falling oil prices, and recession in the developed countries. On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Mexico was asked to develop an economic adjustment program in exchange for a "jumbo loan" put together by the banks, the U.S.

Crisis 11

Crisis Banking Politics GDP 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. The EU is notorious for putting off its hard decisions.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

While Medicare has led the development of bundles in the U.S., HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Business development, contracting, and finance personnel are also required.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

If they were required to purchase a seat to strap their car carrier into, it would increase the price of the trip for their parents, who would then be more likely to drive. By forcing people to purchase additional seats it would inevitably drive up the demand and therefore the price of airline tickets (and I fly quite a bit).

Airlines 13

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets. They also took an equity stake in ASML of 15%, 5%, and 3%, respectively.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. If they can help boost the stock price by working with current management, they are often happy to do so. Activists are significant shareholders.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For chief executives and other senior leaders, it is not unusual for 60-80% of their pay to be tied to performance – whether performance is measured by quarterly earnings, stock prices, or something else. We propose that, instead, most firms should pay their top executives a fixed salary.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. Quantify your level of risk tolerance by taking one of the many self-assessments you can find online, such as the financial risk tolerance questionnaire developed by Virginia Tech’s Ruth Lytton and the University of Georgia’s John Grable.

Career 9

Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

She’d been talking to the head of a Colorado engineering company that developed pumping systems used in hydraulic fracturing—fracking—and wanted to expand into making the polymers, emulsions, and surfactants the industry relied on. I didn’t get into this just to run another bank, but I accept it as the price to play.”. Twin Debates.

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8