Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist. Strategic judgment.

CEO 15

CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Roger Schwarz. For example, if a meeting charter has significant implications for finance, one person from finance can attend and keep their finance colleagues informed. And when they do, leaders are more inclined to use power responsibly. You and Your Team Series. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track.

P&L 13

P&L How To Finance Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

Company 14

Company Finance Price IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. The companies reviewed here are some of the most successful in the world. And many diversity programs fail.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

With a PhD in molecular biology from Columbia University, Roger had published a paper in Nature and was pursuing a promising career as an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School. In fact, during that first year, Roger’s colleagues were incredulous. That was a decade ago. Was he really leaving?

Rogers 8

Rogers Career Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Lafley, Roger L. Lafley and Roger Martin — get to the heart of strategy, explaining what it's for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. Check out these new, and forthcoming books from HBR Press: Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. Strategy is not complex. But it is hard.

Books 8

Books Rogers Globalization Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. HBR: Whats the main takeaway of the research? Then we measured the effect of their departures on firm survival.

Cooper 11

Cooper Rogers Advertising Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, as Jean Rogers, the Executive Director of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), points out in a Greenbiz blog , "It''s no surprise that banks and financial sectors are the institutions least trusted by U.S. Finance Sustainability SASB'

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. At its Center of Competence for Cities, in London, Siemens employs a diverse set of experts, from architects and urban planners to public finance specialists.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

The story of finance over the last 25 years has been the story of innovation run amok — and of our systematic failure, as a society, as companies, as individual leaders, to learn from mistakes we seem determined to keep making. But it has also become clear that the rapid growth of microcredit. has made the loans much less effective.".

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Back in 2008, Steve Strogatz and I were interested in sports, not the world of finance. What's more, those streaks were still made by the skillful, such giants as Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. Are these streaks more frequent, longer, and generally more impressive than what probability would have us believe? You can read the paper here.).

Management 14

Management Fashion Long-term Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

So she decided to become an entrepreneur, and started a baking business that is financing her trip to Korea — one $5 loaf of hot, homemade bread, and $12 fresh-out-of-the-oven pan of cinnamon rolls at a time. My teenage daughter is going to Korea for two weeks this summer. Which meant she needed to earn nearly $3,000.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Rogers Committee Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. Her request was not granted, and not long after, she was written up for an unrelated and trivial infraction.

Report 11

Report Long-term Training Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

FOX News Chairman Roger Ailes was reported to have received an exit package worth $40 million after being ousted from his job amid sexual harassment claims. The junk bond market made financing large takeovers possible and even the biggest among the Fortune 500 firms were no longer safe from a forced acquisition.

Golden Parachute 9

Golden Parachute Hostile Takeover Airlines Execution 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. pretty much ever since.

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

In-depth one-on-one interviews with five recognized leaders who have been operating CEOs in five different industries—PR ( Al Golin ), health care ( Glen Tullman ), finance ( John Rogers ), social enterprise ( Dale Dawson ), and marketing ( Bud Frankel )—revealed that their leadership development occurred in a process far more organic than (..)

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 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. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made.

Globalization 12

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

People like Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism , Matt Stoller at the Roosevelt Institute , John Robb at Global Guerrillas , economists and management scholars and thinkers like Joe Stiglitz , Gary Hamel , John Hagel , Richard Florida , and Roger Martin , all of whom have centrally challenged the tenets of what you might call financial determinism — (..)

Crisis 15

Crisis Marketing Banking Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 1979, Betsy Rogers became the first Central Park Administrator and set out to save park operations from a shrunken staff and dismal resources. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. Collaborative leadership was critical for the revitalization of Central Park in New York City.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. One paper, for instance, found that firms whose CEOs had backgrounds in finance or as professors performed better; another study found no relationship based on those characteristics.

IPO 8

IPO Execution Incentives Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Who authors the destiny of nations? Whose rights are sacrosanct?

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

She set up an advisory council with senior leaders from across the company — business units, HR, IT, legal, finance, marketing, and more — to create a shared vision on how "going social" would improve employee and organizational productivity. "And, once it is built, they have a stake in its success."

Media 15

Media Productivity Products Company 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts, also at last night's event, talked with Rotman Dean Roger Martin about the necessity to have an evolving digital strategy in the face of what she called a "mobile metamorphosis." At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping.

Politics 8

Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8