Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. 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.

Company 8

Company Stress Participative Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Five years ago, "shadow IT" efforts were the dirty little secret of organizations. IT as Process Creator.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

They too are paid by issuers, but it doesn't appear to be as close, conflicted, or lucrative a relationship as that between, say, the structured-finance raters and the big investment banks. there are hundreds of budget wonks in Washington with access to at least as much information as S&P had at its disposal. In the case of the U.S.,

Credit Rating 13

Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Actually witnessing capture in the wild is different, though, and the new This American Life episode with secret recordings of bank examiners at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York going about their jobs is going to focus a lot more attention on the phenomenon. Ethics Finance Government' This won’t be an easy thing to fix.

Banking 9

Banking Conflict of Interest Hedge Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

This is information that government leaders and lenders need to pay attention to as the debate over regulation heats up – and that students need before they make possibly the biggest financial decision of their lifetimes. Education Finance' For instance: Whether your mother went to college.

Wilde 8

Wilde Finance Sample Education 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. Unless line managers and finance really believe in the link between customer feedback and business outcomes, your incentive system won't last long. You can also use these processes to inform policy, pricing, staffing, process and product improvements.

Incentives 11

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. Improve information flows. Supply-chain speed and agility sharply increase when information is shared across the network. These are just the first-order costs of congestion. The second-order costs are even greater.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Google generates most of its revenue through an auction-based system of selling ads that was developed by two engineers but validated by its chief economist, Hal Varian, a former consultant to the company who was also the first Dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Economists and finance.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Launch day was a wild success. Customers show up regularly to take out loans, arrange payments, and track their finances. The thing is, for millions of people, this model doesn’t exist — and those people are my customers. Chai stands were built, graphics were printed, and the team was ready for launch.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

In November 2009 I took leave from my academic position to serve as the Secretary General for Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. Despite the fact I wasn''t actively using the site to share private information, I didn''t feel confident about what accepting a friend request meant for my privacy.

Document 8

Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Use that information to pinpoint what tasks make you feel motivated and absorbed. Though she liked the stability of her role as head of communications for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), which finances private-sector ventures in developing countries, she could feel her interest in her role beginning to wane.

How To 8

How To Mentor Case Study Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

In subsequent weeks, as the stock sank to 30% below its peak, Terranola’s silence created an information vacuum into which all sorts of rumors and speculation rushed. He probably didn’t have enough solid information to go public, but if pushed, he would undoubtedly dig around and get it. Investors adored the Terranola story.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. No single party controls the data or the information. Each node stores and forwards information to all other nodes. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and many other regulatory bodies are still investigating them.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Intuition is a potent source of information, and research has demonstrated that among experts, tacit knowledge and gut instinct lead to rapid and effective decision-making. Entrepreneurs told us one of the ways in which they overcome the feelings of fear was through learning and information seeking. Seeking support.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Self-aware Tacit Knowledge Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Then a new generation of economists, with Tirole at the lead, showed that a rigorous, orthodox economic approach, if you threw in a little game theory and information asymmetry , actually delivered much more complicated results. Still, that work has continued to be informed by Tirole. Corporate finance? Since when?

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Our consumption of information requires an algorithm of narrative and the perspective of bias in order to produce focus. If the past few years have taught us anything, it is that academic publishing is what the Internet was once called — the Wild West. But only if the PLoS study is itself true. But what about peer review?

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

They consistently ask — in my experience, at least once a week, in informal, quick powwows — a handful of interrelated questions, never taking for granted that theyve found the right, perfect, everlasting answer, but understanding instead, that the better answers evolve (and coevolve) with the world around them.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15