Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Erik Dreyer/Getty Images. In 2010, J.P Lessons from Microfinance.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

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. What’s more important, Germany is better at adapting inventions to industry and spreading them throughout the business sector. True, Americans do well at inventing.

Innovation 14

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Much like credit data, we could soon have a burgeoning cottage industry in what I call extrapolated uses of biometric data. For instance, based on your credit score, profession, age group, or zip code, marketers infer that you fit into specific marketing demographics. In a global market where 144 million unique U.S.

Crisis 8

Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

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. Economists and big data.

Strategy 10

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For my company, I focused on a big market and found a profitable and attractive niche. Consider the type of business and industry. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Find your niche in a sizable market. Are you counting on advertising to bring in customers?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Competitive products came on the market, but none were as popular as the Express. Terranola’s market cap skyrocketed to $8.1 It seemed that many market players, notably Jeremiah Hughes, thought the Terranola story was too good to be true. Just then the chief marketing officer, Janet Washington, came in. Doom and Gloom.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. And like any industry, the ICO arena has had its fair share of outright scams, pump and dumps, and blatant Ponzi schemes. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the “ Scientific Background ” essay on Tirole’s work provided by the Nobel committee, the focus is on Tirole’s work on industry structure, which has had a big impact on antitrust and other regulation, especially in Europe. But Tirole’s 1980s work on industrial organization also found its way into thinking about business strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Where should all this go in our minds?”.

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

For years, the creative side of the company was the top priority, leaving things like finance, IT, and HR to suffer (yes, they tried to run their operations on spreadsheets). Keller, a top auto analyst, "never rested," working the phones and gathering industry data constantly. Missing the "How" and "Why". Sorry for Your Loss.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. Cross-functionalizing the marketing mix to drive incremental revenue generation opportunities" isnt reflection (and heaven knows few breakthroughs ever lie down that path ).

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 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. The effect of connections is even greater in… how the market reacts to their buy and sell calls. This could suggest that women need to have more advantages to even get into finance in the first place. What a wild idea.

Advice 8

Advice Sample Social Capital CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Tech companies, like any other enterprise, are already subject to a complex tangle of laws, varying based on industry and local authority.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 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. go to the system that almost all other industrial nations have of just taxing people where they earn the money. The corporate inversion — when a U.S. It’s driven many U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8