Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

August 2011 HBR. While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Even the big banks are getting social. Marketers no longer live in an above-the-line world; instead, direct-response and pay-per-click advertising have entered the mix.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). During early 2011, Shuttleworth’s team interacted with customers of two of the key products to understand their needs. Related Video.

Commitment 11

Commitment Banking Proposal Video 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Both associations managed their brands and ran the clearing and settlement systems for banks that issued cards or helped merchants accept cards. Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. A recent study found that SSOs published more than 200,000 standards between 1975 and 2011.

IPO 8

IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

It doesn’t require any special hardware or software. The unbanked pay four times more in fees to access their money than those with bank accounts, and they pay $4 higher fees per month for cash access on average than those with formal financial services. Cash – by which I mean paper currency and coins — has many benefits.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. Let''s suppose your idea is a good, viable business idea, but not a billion dollar market opportunity. And play he did.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day.

Industry 9

Industry Retail Banking Brand 9

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment!

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to,” Jobs is quoted as saying in a series of jeremiads , “and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40bn in the bank, to right this wrong.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. So what happened? billion of GE stock — about 1.5%

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Do we still take band-aid approaches (such as buying enterprise software)? billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%. Every day in the U.S.,

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

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. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. 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

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Housing , which is generously subsidized (largely through the tax deductibility of mortgage interest, which stimulates demand for homes as well as loans from banks.). Thus, the decline of manufacturing is not completely a result of "natural" market forces. Private equity , which enjoys a15% tax rate on carried interest. (If

Health Care 9

Health Care Biotechnology Industry Policies 9

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market. I’m thinking of HDFC Bank in India, Yahoo! Copyright 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. But they do it very consciously.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8