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. Strategy'

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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. One direct marketer learned this the hard way. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. A clear link to financial and strategic outcomes.

Incentives 10

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

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. It appointed a gatekeeper.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

coal market. Given what’s at stake now — not just financial system stability, but planetary, human-supporting system stability – it’s more than prudent to avoid the game of timing the market perfectly. Economy Finance Sustainability' Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new.

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Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Sometimes the market's just too small (luxury vacation planning for couples honeymooning in Belarus). Sometimes the margins are too thin (personal finance author Ramit Sethi derides textbook exchange businesses and t-shirt companies as "stupid frat-boy business ideas"). (Michael Gerber writes about this extensively in The E-Myth.

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Wilde Film Career Marketing Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Or, in Kamchatka, you’ll find ecotourism ventures by Wild Salmon River Expeditions , initiated by an alliance between a former American military officer and his Russian associates. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. Entries into markets triggered more entries, and markets that saw companies fleeing went cold.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For my company, I focused on a big market and found a profitable and attractive niche. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Find your niche in a sizable market. Travel is a good market for entrepreneurs, but it''s not the place for copycats.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

For instance, based on your credit score, profession, age group, or zip code, marketers infer that you fit into specific marketing demographics. Perhaps the extrapolated marketing use points to a heavy drinker in a desirable economic demographic or with a preferred liquor brand. In a global market where 144 million unique U.S.

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Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 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. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. Indeed, as part of an effort to learn from Germany about effective innovation, U.S. True, Americans do well at inventing. It’s high time for the U.S.

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Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Reviewing your accomplishments can also help you identify what you’d like to be doing more of. She knew she’d like to add more marketing tasks to her role because she really enjoyed them, but she didn’t know how to go about it. The key is to take small actions, and to do so deliberately.

How To 8

How To Mentor Case Study Career 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Reviews: “This wild, wicked show is not just a screamfest; it’s a good piece of theater!” - The New York Times “Funny, furious and wholly enthralling!” - Wall Street Journal “Teller has filled Play Dead with elaborate illusions and effects including a slam-bang finale!” Great reviews to date. 6 Richard T.

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Press Release Discount PR Fraser 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” You have the charm, charisma, enthusiasm, hard work, and marketing mind to encourage and drive your teams to think anything is possible. This means managing entrepreneurs who can navigate trends and market behaviors. You persevere.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 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.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

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

Having high ratings from S&P, Moody's, and Fisk thus means a bigger market and lower prices for your debt. Frank Partnoy , a law professor at the University of San Diego and my main tutor in ratings-related matters, has long urged the use of market-based measures such as credit spreads. And clearly, some regulatory judgment (horrors!)

Credit Rating 13

Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Competitive products came on the market, but none were as popular as the Express. Terranola’s market cap skyrocketed to $8.1 Investors adored the Terranola story.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. Such tactics and strategies for improving supply-chain performance can increase market share, reduce costs, and dramatically improve profitability. These are just the first-order costs of congestion.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

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 Diversity on your founding team will give you strength.

How To 15

How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

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. Don''t bad-mouth anyone on an online forum, and if you have some photos of your wild youth hidden at the bottom of a drawer, just keep them there.

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Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

But the fact is that in the Wild West of investing, an Annie Oakley is rare — the realm of investing is still very much a dude ranch. So if you feel uncomfortable as an investor, here are two bullets to pack in your pistol: Investing is about financing dreams. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home.

Finance 8

Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 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?”.

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Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 8

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. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

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.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 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

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). Why would an industry beat a hasty retreat from a market that continues to boom?" Missing the "How" and "Why". The Psychiatric Drug Crisis The New Yorker.

Supply Chain 8

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. 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.

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Advice Sample Social Capital CEO 8

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.

Long-term 10

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

George Mason University’s Adam Thierer, reviewing a resurgence of books about the “existential threat” of disruptive innovation, has detailed what he calls a “techno-panic template” in how we react to disruptive innovations that don’t fit into familiar categories. tech companies and hope for the best.).

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) They also built a process governance structure that was an organizational overlay on their functional and product structures. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

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