Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. The issuers’ stock price increases around the announcement of green bond offering, indicating that investors expect the bonds to contribute to shareholder value. How the stock market responds.

Bond 11

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. The two different types of research are complementary.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In the more recent crises, Bernanke explained, liquidity started to dry up when housing prices declined, and subprime mortgage defaults rose in 2007. Unregulated and a relatively new innovation, trusts were the ‘ toxic assets ‘ of the 1907 crises. ” This had little direct impact on consumers.

Banking 50

Banking Crisis Morale System 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

First, individuals focus on short time horizons and thus underprepare for future threats. But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. Better Data Can Help Insurers More Accurately Price Climate Risk.

Insurance 11

Insurance Real Estate Industry Bond 11

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.". In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.".

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. Embracing the long-term view. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Short-term budget constraints among both public and private insurers, and the fact that re-allocating resources away from low value services takes time, further limit investments in high-value services. Consider, for example, the debate around the pricing of new Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) therapies.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee.

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

The common thread is that today''s model of capitalism overemphasizes short-term financial data and neglects information that gets at the true sources of sustainable value creation — things like innovation, brand equity, customer loyalty, and key stakeholder relationships. Corporate social responsibility Sustainability'

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Report Short-term Press Release Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. New, small entrants into the market will be at pains to form relationships with such firms, and the power imbalance is effectively a monopsony — sell to us at our price, on our invoice terms, or get lost.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending. In short, the middle is being squeezed, the top doesn’t spend enough, the bottom doesn’t earn enough, and the policy mix is fatally flawed. We need new policies.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer. ” Health care.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. Theirs is a “bricolage” approach to digital.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. Without its own currency, Zimbabwe relies on USD for over 90% of transactions , but the collapse in exports means money is in short supply.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Moreover, employers who used to be willing to pay a price premium for a degree candidate are seeking instead those with relevant working experience. competition from one-year, more focused courses (such as one-year degrees in finance, which are increasingly popular); and the ability to obtain somewhat substitutable credentials of other kinds.

Creativity 8

Creativity Short-term Trends Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

But he rationalized those actions in his mind at the time, because the result was higher leverage, a higher return on equity, and a higher stock price. Fastow said we can begin by understanding that structured finance is like steroids: a little can cure many illnesses, but a lot can destroy your organs.

Chief Financial Officer 11

Chief Financial Officer Finance Banking Class 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. Entrepreneurs often perceive a short window of opportunity. For example, a new venture might employ a new business model for an innovative product. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms.

Definition 10

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In short, change would happen, but at a dangerously slow pace. Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. Breakthrough Finance. Business would change the rules of the game. Breakthrough Science.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve met so many leaders who are brilliant when it comes to product design and capital structure but who treat the people in business as an afterthought, a matter of sound administration as opposed to daring innovation. But the reality of competition today is that long-term success is virtually impossible without short-term stumbles.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For chief executives and other senior leaders, it is not unusual for 60-80% of their pay to be tied to performance – whether performance is measured by quarterly earnings, stock prices, or something else. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Besides the short-term costs of such a move, history shows us that Greece has never managed to benefit from currency devaluations. Although former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis made eloquent appeals about the need to rethink macro, he said very little about changing how the economy is run. And what about that price?

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In their piece, they observe the following: In the short term, however, the current team might actually outperform in the absence of its mercurial and stubborn mentor. Take health care — as a patient, you've got to coordinate the visits, get the prescriptions, keep track of the appointments, figure out the financing, and so on.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 14

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the cold hard truth…if you cheat your family to invest into your career, you and your loved ones will pay a very heavy price. We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling. link] Mike Henry Sr.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

These teams focus on more than just product formulation, now constantly probing customer usage, storage, and pricing plans to make sure that both Rich’s and the customer make profitable returns. We persisted because our ambition to improve our customers’ financial lives means that we are always falling short.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. So I wanted to see if Campbell could make sense of the prizes and the current state of academic knowledge about asset prices.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Yet, investors price Alphabet’s Class C stock, which carries no voting rights, almost no differently than Alphabet’s Class B stock, which carries voting rights. Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

To patients, many of whom do not pay the full price of the care that they receive, value often means better outcomes regardless of cost. The right way to think about value in health care delivery is a stream of benefits accrued over a lifetime that is attractive relative to the price paid to acquire them. The fragmented nature of U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Short-term Insurance Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Innovate and invest, even when it hurts. .” This story leads us to a question: Which sounds sexier: sassy Silicon Valley startup or nose-to-the-grindstone supplier?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

There is strong bipartisan consensus that our current level of health care spending does not deliver sufficient value in terms of individual or population health. These efforts have addressed the infrastructure, processes, and financing (e.g., price transparency ) in the dual objectives of enhancing quality and containing costs.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Insurance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. Innovation and change. Digital players wield outsize market power.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. This point was underscored by Unilever CEO Paul Polman when he courageously told short-term investors who did not support sustainability efforts not to buy his company’s shares.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. In short, everything that can make you the most helpful and inviting business partner possible! It grows sales. There's that q-word again.) (3)

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105