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? Last week, the U.S.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! An old client became well known and rather notorious through this technique: he liked to predict the future in his industry, always outrageous.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. Impact investing can learn from the history of microfinance — the provision of debt and other financial services to the poor — an industry that was at a similar stage 15 years ago. Erik Dreyer/Getty Images. In 2010, J.P

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Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Just how big a problem this is for industry — and for one industry in particular — is illustrated by a recent study, which, ironically, claimed to uncover the kind of bias we don’t want to see when it comes to assessing the validity of data. Moreover, the PLoS study design (conflict with industry? Yes/no; positive association?

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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. Social Security numbers have been released into the wild, the time to integrate added security into our identity verification regime is upon us. In a global market where 144 million unique U.S.

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Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 9

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.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

“We are taking action now to reverse this trend, just as organizations took measures to reduce environmental pollution after the industrial revolution.” Despite his seemingly radical thinking about email, Breton isn’t exactly the model of a rogue start-up founder testing out wild new ways to work.

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Company Stress Participative 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.

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Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

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. This could suggest that women need to have more advantages to even get into finance in the first place. While Fang and Huang’s study is limited to the investment industry, other researchers have found similar effects elsewhere.

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Advice Sample Social Capital CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Regulatory capture — when regulators come to act mainly in the interest of the industries they regulate — is a phenomenon that economists, political scientists, and legal scholars have been writing about for decades. Ethics Finance Government' This won’t be an easy thing to fix.

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Banking Conflict of Interest Hedge Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. Breaking through the industrial ages rusting, cracking ceiling wont happen by just doing more of the same. Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Firms in these industries and their customers who thereby benefit from lower prices (admittedly through processes they never see) benefit greatly. Economists and finance. Economists and big data. The first step to succeeding wildly as a first mover may be to connect with a first thinker. Strategy'

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Consider the type of business and industry. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. While enthusiasm and faith are needed when planning out your business, you do want to temper those thoughts with realism. Are you counting on advertising to bring in customers?

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Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

But when his marketing chief got a tip that a global snack industry website was about to publish an interview with Hughes about Terranola, A.J. Investors adored the Terranola story. When the Express launched, sales of food bars in the United States were already $2 billion annually and expanding by double digits.

Case Study 8

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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.

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Globalization CEO System Offshoring 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. Distributed Database.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

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.

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