The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The attractiveness of an individual’s loan request to potential investors typically hinges on factors such as a favorable credit score and a reasonable loan proposal. Specifically, when the investor’s state exhibited a more conservative political leaning than the borrower’s state, lending offers declined by up to 11.6%.

Politics 102

Politics Credit Scoring Banking Proposal 102

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

It proposes to refinance existing Greek debt to the public sector with longer-dated debt at lower interest rates and throw more public money at the Greeks. Greece's big problem is that it has such a huge debt-to-finance ratio that it can't really invest in growth. All that this proposal seems to do is to postpone the inevitable.

Proposal 13

Proposal Bond Banking Restructuring 13

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

We are proposing that an entrepreneurial opportunity exists objectively, but that does not guarantee that if you identify it and try to exploit it, you’ll turn the opportunity into profits,” the authors say. This helps both in terms of coming up with novel ideas for new businesses and also attracting the finance to help them to grow.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Human Capital Comparison Education 105

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Then, based on the insights drawn from this sample, the company would decide the reason for the recent losses and propose changing a feature to address that specific "pain." Amir served as a member of the Board of Directors and of the Finance committee of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange-listed ISSTA-Lines LTD (ISTA.P)

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

For those in the public sector, this includes being shielded from governmental politics. These individuals can provide valuable political capital that enables a fund to take and defend decisions that may be politically controversial. Strong governance. Autonomy for pension institutions starts with a strong governance framework.

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Join us to hear expert speakers from across the realms of politics and business discuss compelling issues such as: Where do men fit into supporting inclusive workplaces? CMI’s proposal has already been picked up in the media and some key influencers. Reserved your spot?

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

Among the acute political risks facing the world this year, the nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea are serious, no doubt, but the behavior of the 20 major economic powers scare us more: these countries can no longer agree on how the global economy should function. "Oh, This enormous change ushers in an era of growing political risk.

Politics 14

Politics Gordon Scenario Planning Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Should companies use funds from the corporate treasury to advocate directly for or against political candidates in contested elections? Should we be passive and avoid such spending, or be active and get involved in partisan politics? The issues arise in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v.

Company 13

Company Politics Policies Proposal 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

She has had done an admirable job as France's Finance minister, showing composure and resolve during a crisis that would wither weaker dispositions. Yes, she is a finance minister but her background is in the Law; she was the first woman to run Baker & Mackenzie, the famous US law firm and founded its European arm. What's not to like?

Finance 14

Finance Restructuring Crisis Politics 14

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

So let me propose the defining game changer which is one all good leaders practice regularly: know what you can do, what you cannot do, and know what you need to focus on to achieve your intended results. I have found that great leadership is always the best catalyst for growth. You insights and observations are always appreciated.

Blog 379

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

In what has now become an iconic statement about American politics, and maybe politics everywhere, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (now Chicago Mayor) declared that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” The regressive nature of the charges only complicates the politics. Medicare vouchers.

Politics 8

Politics Health Care Budgeting Insurance 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Posted by: Allan Gainer | February 23, 2010 at 01:41 PM Bubba says, "By golly Cletus, it's the making of the next Obamacare health care proposal." Posted by: JustinArndt | February 23, 2010 at 01:45 PM Bubba says, "By golly Cletus, it's the making of the next Obamacare health care proposal."

Health Care 85

Health Care Henderson Blog Letter 85

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). In 1995 a train strike paralyzed France and forced the government to back down from its proposed reform of the railway sector. GDP grew by 1.9%

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Political spending, climate change, diversity, and human rights are now some of the most frequent resolutions that investors file. ” We found that 58% of the shareholder proposals in our sample were filed on immaterial issues. Rather, it reflects the pro-social objectives of a large number of sponsors of such proposals.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Our data shows, for instance, that 18% of multimillionaires work in finance, while only 1% of them are professors and scientists. The resulting tax rates might favor sectors with the most political clout rather than the largest spillovers. These policies could spur economic growth far more than many current tax reform proposals.

Policies 8

Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

While proposing that a copy of most types of personal data be kept on servers within India, the bill leaves it up to the government to decide which data cannot be transferred out of India at all. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. Lower-income consumers also present a lucrative opportunity.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Only in the face of concerns about Mexico's political stability did the U.S. attitude came in October 1988, following the Brazilian debt moratorium of 1987 and serious political instability in Mexico following its 1988 elections.

Crisis 11

Crisis Banking Politics GDP 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Setting aside the issues of political legitimacy this raises in democracies, high and sustained levels of inequality are bad for long-run growth. So one solution suggested by a growing number of economists in Europe is for central banks to “helicopter drop” money , and directly finance private sector spending.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Any proposal, the rules said, should: remove obstacles to growing revenues, minimize up-front expenditure, provide benefits immediately (rather than paying off in the long term), and. Once they understood the rules and their underlying rationale, ALL's employees generated a series of innovative proposals based on what they had to work with.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

A few verbal tweaks (such as renaming the “Troika” — which consists of the EU, the IMF, and the ECB — the “Institutions”) were given as a political concession to the newly elected government, which had created high expectations with its electorate. Will there be progress in this regard?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Her peers complained bitterly about her "my way or the highway" approach and often felt blindsided when they heard her present a proposed plan of action to senior management without having solicited their input. However, it was an understatement to say that Carla did not "suffer fools gladly."

Proposal 11

Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations. The proposed rules are vague and incomplete, where they could easily be straightforward and even obvious. But are the delays justified?

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics). As the CMO, I can say that a big part of trusting Gene (CFO) was that he not only demonstrated a passion for marketing, but a genuine interest in helping our department with his finance expertise.

CFO 8

CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

.” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. Of course, we should be doing all we can to eradicate institutional bias and its pernicious influence on decision-making algorithms.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

in political science, and is now a research associate at Harvard Business School. He regrets that economists didn't give him better advice. What Trichet said was that state-of-the-art macroeconomic theory was almost entirely useless in dealing with the crisis that began in 2007. All that matters is whether it delivers useful predictions.

Crisis 12

Crisis Expectancy Theory Banking Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We studied 49 teams at a publicly held Dutch company; the teams were auditing finances in search of tax evasion and fraud. Don’t get snowed by political connections or persuasiveness or the appearance of authority. We replicated these findings in the field, by the way. What lessons should managers take away from these studies?

Quality 8

Quality Leadership Dunning Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. The team was polite and respectful. As we recounted in the Atlantic article, Tejon Ranch management was polite and respectful.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

All they read is commercial offers, proposals, etc. link] James Strock Terrific post, as ever! Avil Beckford [link] Slava This is somewhat surprising and quite contrary to the CEOs I know. They haven't read a book in years. Some magazines – yes, but mostly glance through the pictures. 50+ employees tops.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2011

More generally, how do the proposals stack up? Since British depositors lost a fair amount of money in the collapse of Iceland's banks in 2008 and would presumably be sensitive on this issue, the absence of a guarantee should give pause to any bank considering relocation. Some components make intuitive sense.

Banking 11

Banking Report Retail Bond 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

HBR Guide to Office Politics. ” Proposing options “helps the other person see a way out, and it also signals respect.” Tabatha Turman, the founder and CEO of Integrated Finance and Accounting Solutions, a financial firm with both government and private sector clients, knew she had a problem with a certain employee.

How To 8

How To Construction Case Study Performance Review 8

Reiter Thinks

JUNE 8, 2011

GPA in Political Science. . Here’s what I propose. Filed under: Inspiration , mentor , Self Help , Success Tagged: class of 2011 , family , high school , Personal Finance , personal success , Success , Work. (Not really.) You are doing an amazing job and continue to do so for the next couple of years. Keep doing that.

Class 42

Class Follow-up Education Finance 42

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Let me couch this for you in the pedestrian terms of financial hydraulics — the tawdry terms which seem to substitute for thinking in what's become of our thin, shallow economic and political discourse. Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited. Who authors the destiny of nations?

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

corporate tax code should be reformed, but not every proposed fix is a good one. companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. In addition, certain types of investments are tax-preferred, and the system encourages debt-financed investments over equity-financed investments.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. These contrasting paths are used to propose alternative approaches and new solutions. The increased role of finance in our economy. Wholesale changes must be contemplated. Government.

Cost 172

Cost Health Care IPO Finance 172

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

This is taken from The Intercollegiate Finance Journal (IFJ) is an undergraduate student-run journal about how current finance, economics, business and technology issues affect students'' lives. Substantive tax reform is one of the most politically poisonous issues to grapple with in Washington D.C.

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Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131