Women on Business

DECEMBER 6, 2010

By being available as a mentor to other women – and also to men – we can lead by example as professionals and leaders, give others the benefit of our experience and perspective, and reap the reward of seeing others succeed in part because of our input. However, that’s a small price to pay for the positives that are derived.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

This scandal isn't about price-fixing. The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. For example, I've proposed redesigning the economy around the idea of a national balance sheet, which redefines profit and wealth to matter in human terms. It's not about a bank. It's about life, tragedy, and human potential.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Sometimes these have been imposed by government — the Glass-Steagall division between commercial banks and investment banks, for example — but often they have arisen organically. Rowe Price spring to mind) have built a reputation for looking out for investors's interests. Investment banks used to all be partnerships.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

To many, the obvious candidate for measuring corporate performance is share price. A generation of economists, finance theorists, business school professors, and would-be governance experts has embraced the notion that companies exist only to maximize "shareholder value.". Suppose, for example, you decided to go out to lunch.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

For example, application of complex financial accounting rule — FAS 133 relating to derivatives — led to expensive restatements in numerous businesses. Such a culture was sorely absent in these sectoral scandals — and companies, business leaders and the corporate world in general have paid a stiff price.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I would argue that it's not so much about misaligned incentives, as we might guess from standard economic theory, but rather because, from a behavioral perspective, hedge funds are "criminogenic" environments that can turn even ethical people into conscienceless sociopaths. Signal 2: Other Traders Aren't Acting Ethically.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Their goal was to hit the lowest possible price point, and to appeal to “digital native” customers. Cloud-based hardware is also increasingly available to any business at low cost.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Moreover, increases in pay for the FTSE 350 occurred at a much faster rate than increases in company profits or share price. For example, only 20 per cent in the UK believe the CEO is "a credible spokesperson," according to an Edelman study cited by the Commission. customer satisfaction, risk audits, adherence to company ethics).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co. It’s not just products.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. For example, consider the Economist ’s Big Mac index , which measures the cost of a Big Mac in various countries in terms of its difference from the average Big Mac price in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

They are key both to cash flow which finances dividends, and to "net income" that drives stock price which, in turn, benefits shareholders (heavily American) — especially older individuals who are either direct investors or who rely on pension funds. Worker Transition at Home.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

In the early 1980s, for example, at least some partners — Bob Waterman, co-author of In Search of Excellence , among them — counseled gradual, quiet expansion, this to maintain the top-flight quality of the consultancy's people and its work. Others decried what they saw as a lowering of hiring standards. "I

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste. Challenges of this frame: Be wary of pricing everything that moves in the environment and focusing too much on costs. The Moral Frame.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from healthcare and government to agriculture and finance. To take just one striking example, imagine if there had been a discussion around how to interpret probabilistic models in the run up to the 2016 U.S. Facebook, for example, has its own private cloud.

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