Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Norway has had a quota since 2002, and women now make up more than 40% of board members. Set up a talent bank and clearinghouse for women and men who want to "on-ramp" their careers after voluntarily off-ramping for childcare, eldercare, or other personal obligations.

Diversity 15

Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

million European firms (for over 6 million firm-years of data, from 2002 to 2012). The paper that showed a positive correlation between an eponymous firm name and financial results looked at a data set of 1.8 The other paper uses a sample of roughly 8,000 firm-years of data from U.S. family firms (from 1993 to 2009).

Company 10

Company Entrepreneur Reputation Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else.

Globalization 12

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 Back in 2013, PayPal had acquired the parent company of Venmo, the mobile app that enables people to transfer money even without bank accounts. PayPal, the electronic payments giant, found itself at a crossroads in 2015.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Dilma will presumably maintain the independency of the Central Bank. There are many reasons to be optimistic about Brazil's post-election future. Dilma is likely to preserve the macroeconomic policies consolidated in the last 16 years and accountable for delivering an estimated 7.0% growth in the Gross Domestic Product in 2010.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Globalization Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Since 2002, listed Japanese companies were permitted to have three board committees— audit, compensation and nominating. By contrast, the laws of most advanced industrial countries require the board to be composed of a majority of independent directors, who are interviewed and recommended by its nominating committee.

Committee 8

Committee Chief Financial Officer Document Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% James Mwangi, CEO and managing director of the Equity Bank and chairman of the Equity Group Foundation, is focused on driving African development and creating opportunities for prosperity. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

We tested different approaches and in 2002, we began deploying a new set of interventions now known as the “graduation” approach, which provides these women with a host of services and benefits to move them out of ultra-poverty and eventually into sustainable livelihoods.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

To a large extent, say-on-pay — which was introduced in the UK in 2002 and has spread to several other countries, most recently Switzerland — is a simple exercise in bandwagon-following. So paying bank CEOs mostly in stock is a recipe for a financial crisis. Since say-on-pay hit the U.S. That''s not all it is, though.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The consumer banking industry is notoriously difficult to enter, not least because most customers rarely switch banks. In some countries, people change spouses more often than they change banks. It has now become the largest bank in the country. After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

stock exchanges in 2002 to identify causation rather than mere correlation. Banks, workers, customers, and suppliers can all quit, depriving a firm of credit, labour, customs, or supplies. While Japan’s underperformance has many causes other than illiquidity, there is direct evidence on the benefits of liquidity.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. Why the disparity? Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason.

Crisis 13

Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

years in 2002 to 7.2 Bank of England economists Andrew Haldane and Richard Davies argue reasonably convincingly that corporate impatience is increasing. Clouding the picture, it is not at all clear that CEOs’ time in office is in fact consistently shrinking. years in 2009. However, since then it has lengthened, to 9.9

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Crisis communications means banking goodwill for those times when the plan is called to the test. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. About the Author.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1 Or calling.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 15

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Sweeping reforms by Wall Street and the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) are needed, forcing firms to separate their investment banking business from their stock advisory business. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% by 2020, according to the World Bank. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe. The “input” indeed appears impressive: China’s R&D expenditure increased to 1.6% of GDP in 2012 from 1.1%

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When Sir Dave Brailsford became head of British Cycling in 2002, the team had almost no record of success: British cycling had only won a single gold medal in its 76-year history. That quickly changed under Sir Dave’s leadership. I moved from Olympic to professional cycling right when a major era of doping was coming to an end.

Kaizen 8

Kaizen Critical Success Factor Competitive Advantage Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

One bank lost more money in a few weeks than it had accumulated over the previous century. As that dramatic disintegration played out in early 2002, I had to present our office’s results and perspectives at the firm’s annual partners’ meeting in Switzerland. Over 12 days, five different presidents took control of the country.

Emotional Intelligence 10

Emotional Intelligence GDP McKinsey Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. And I say a bubble.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Executives never stayed long. Congressional Hearings.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In 2002 the Commission switched course again and ruled that broadband access provided by cable TV companies was an information service — the reasoning being, in part, that cable broadband had ended the DSL monopoly and created a competitive market once again.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8