Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Time magazine may have called it “the most boring bank in the world,” but after the crisis, its conservative approach is looking more appealing than ever; it is a brand that played it smart and safe.

Brand 66

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

In the summer of 2004, Peter Thiel's initial investment in the just-started company valued it at $4.9 Might our inability to understand the inherent nature of growth as unsustainable also be affecting our ability to navigate investing, economic, and career uncertainty? In May 2006, Facebook raised money at a $500-million valuation.

Banking 8

Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

First, entrepreneurship is not riskier than working at a big bank or law firm, a fact vividly underscored by the de facto nationalization of the banking sector and mass layoffs of the last few years. But the conventional position is nonsense; building new companies is far more sensible than the practical will admit.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. Its full name is, after all, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure." But he didn''t.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I don't know what sexy acronym our leading investment banks' rock-star economists will come up with next, but I hope their indicators will start to factor in whether a large population is being harnessed or whether it is seething youth bulge, and whether economic growth is coming at the cost of ecological sustainability.

Banking 15

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. “I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. This was also true for Michelle Hickox. “I didn’t want that,” she told me.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Working with Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Bank , the largest women’s bank in India, we created a unique two-day business counseling program for women ages 18 to 50 who had actively saved or borrowed from the bank between December 2004 and January 2006.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Banking Training Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

The involvement of banks such as Goldman and J.P. Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. cent per aluminum can. The article is less clear about what brought this on. Is it bad rules set by the London Metal Exchange?

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. That enabled the company to find a new lender who refinanced $25 million in bank debt. Ideally, borrowing should take the form of raising one’s line of credit with the bank every year (especially the good years).

Crisis 8

Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, has already hiked interest rates five times in 2011 and increased reserve requirement ratios nine times, but those measures have barely made a dent on the problem. For Beijing, tackling China's high inflation rate — 6.1%

Price 8

Price Sharpe Banking Class 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles.

Finance 8

Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Here’s an update of some key numbers in that article: In 2004-2013, 454 companies in the S&P 500 Index that were publicly listed over the decade expended $3.4 ASRs: Apple contracts with an investment bank to short its stock, enabling the company to retire in one fell swoop the entire amount in the contract.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

There's been lots of debate over how central banks should react to bubbles. mortgage borrowers got into this situation from about 2004 through early 2007. From the evidence of the IPO prospectus it filed last week, Groupon is playing this speculative finance game (it lost $456 million last year, and has $118 million cash in the bank).

Company 14

Company Finance Price IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Five years later, under the banner of "The Girl Effect," Nike Foundation and its many partners, such as the NoVo Foundation the World Bank, DFID and the UN Foundation, have successfully influenced the global agenda and helped launch multi-million dollar programs to empower adolescent girls around the world.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

Many more young people today are looking to make an impact — in 2004, 5% of HBS's first-year class applied for summer internships with Year Up — and that desire for purpose doesn't go away as someone advances in their career. Leverage your mission. Pay as competitively as you can.

Attrition 10

Attrition Entrepreneur Insurance Career 10

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In 2004, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled, The Risky Business of Hiring Rock Stars. Six years ago, we started tracking high-flying CEOs, researchers, and software developers, as well as leading professionals in investment banking, advertising, public relations, management consulting, and the law.

Short-term 57

Short-term Long-term Wiseman System 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively. ” • “Reserve Bank permission? David Mulford, U.S. Many other recent ambassadors have returned to Washington in two years or less.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. As embarrassing leaks from banks and spooks have amply demonstrated, keeping data secure isn''t easy, even for dedicated pros.

Document 8

Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

The first CableCARDs came out in 2004; since then the FCC has issued repeated rules changes aimed at getting the things to catch on. If the need to reuse the machines really was what was driving the cable companies'' return policies, though, they would make returns easy.

Market Penetration 8

Market Penetration Industry Telecommunications Strategy 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

In 2004, for instance, a Harvard Crimson poll found that as many as 4 in 5 Harvard students suffer from depression at least once during the school year, and nearly half of all students suffer from depression so debilitating they can’t function. In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think Inc. to share his research with a wider population.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Survey Case Study Positioning 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In banking, Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bancorp also announced pay increases for minimum wage employees. in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% For example, across our sectors and countries studied, in the decade from 1995 to 2004, growth in demand for goods and services averaged 4.6%, slowed to 2.3%

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. But these forms of external turbulence tend to be the trigger of free fall, not the cause. billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Two years ago, the much-hated Troika (the European Central Bank, the European Commission, and the IMF) provided €10 billion to Cyprus after insisting that it should contribute €5.8 The question is whether the austerity program will help or hurt Greece. billion (later, that went up to €13 billion) to the rescue package.

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Google, which adopted a similar share structure at the time of its initial public offering in 2004, has gone further with its decision last spring to issue non-voting stock. Sweden , for instance, amended its company law in 2004 to reduce the permitted disparity of voting rights from 1,000 to one to a maximum of 10 to one.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Class Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Before I knew it I was presenting the ideas in my book to Steve Black, who at the time headed up investment banking at JP Morgan Chase. And in 2004 Paolo Pellegrini, a VP at the investment bank Lazard Freres, was fired — then took on a low-level position at a hedge fund after a lucky phone call. She was right.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Of course, time is money, and in light of the long selling cycles, creative financing is often the name of the game: banks will sometimes step up to finance part of a firm contract with a large customer. In fact, advanced payments may be just the kind of proof that banks or equity investors need to open their pocket books.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

A succession of CEOs prior to Rick Wagoner (who fought heroically to overcome the dreadful hand he was dealt) allowed all manner of legacy costs to build up (retiree health, Jobs Bank, etc.) When Bob came on board in 2001, he inherited a mainly crummy set of 2001-2004 car launches. — as it did — than if it grew.

Company 12

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Unicorns are: Small in size. Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8