Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. Insight Center.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Should the new activity have a separate stock market listing or separate funding? New ventures, for example, often complain that the corporate finance function requires them to meet budget or lose bonuses or funding; or they can’t recruit the talent they need because of the corporate job evaluation approach. Strategy'

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

I still remember when Steve Jobs was featured in business school case studies as an example of bad leadership style. Other examples abound once you look for them. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. Entries into markets triggered more entries, and markets that saw companies fleeing went cold.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Here a few notable examples. 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. Economists and market design. Economists and finance.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. For example, many, if not most, of the Chinese products we buy every day are produced by German-made machinery, and the companies that make them are thriving. But the fairy tale that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

When you care deeply about a pet project, for example, it's hard to make a rational decision about whether it should live or die. Sometimes the market's just too small (luxury vacation planning for couples honeymooning in Belarus). (Michael Gerber writes about this extensively in The E-Myth. You're too emotionally attached.

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Wilde Film Career Marketing Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize. Corporate finance?

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

They all pay taxes, report their finances, disclose significant shareholders, and comply with the full range of employment, health and safety, advertising, intellectual property, consumer protection and anti-competition laws, to name just a few. What if, for example, artificial intelligence puts an entire generation out of work ?

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. Use closed-loop processes (call unhappy customers, for example) to ferret out the specifics of a situation for customer-facing employees.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” ” You believe anything is possible.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz ‘A contractor with limited experience can be a star in a specific field but cannot always see the system in a broader sense’, Wilde added. Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz The trick is to combine the financing model and the development calendar.

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B2B Development Wilde Project 61

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0 But you do need to share a view as to how much you will work.

How To 15

How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

A working paper by Lily Fang, an associate professor of finance at INSEAD, and Sterling Huang, a Ph.D. For example, while connections lead to a 2 percent improvement in accuracy rankings in general, among men, there is a further improvement of about 1.8 What a wild idea. percent, but not at all for female analysts.

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Advice Sample Social Capital CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. For example, one possible strategy is building dominant share positions with those customers who value faster, more reliable responses from their suppliers. These are just the first-order costs of congestion.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

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. The second source of revenue is trying to change the fact that corporations report large profits to the capital markets and relatively small profits to tax authorities.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8