Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The 2012 batch includes CEOs sending memos explaining whose platform they think will help the organization thrive (and encouraging employees to vote accordingly, lest jobs be lost) and even one who sent his people to a rally. Trust is necessary to influence others, and that trust is missing in many workplaces.

How To 8

How To Politics Influence Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. A third signal is that health care financing is testing these pathways too. What Business Are We In? The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. bankruptcy court.

Health Care 16

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. The intelligent use of data will have a transformative influence on all points of care. New players are fearlessly sensing the opportunity.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Smisek, for example, resigned in the scandal of a federal investigation into whether United Airlines had unduly influenced David Samson, the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Samson eventually pleaded guilty to a bribery charge this year). It wasn’t always like this. By 1986 about a third of the largest 250 U.S.

Golden Parachute 9

Golden Parachute Hostile Takeover Airlines Execution 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And while some question whether such special treatment is appropriate , it’s clear that this group has outsize influence: high-performers have been estimated to be four times as productive as average workers, and research has shown that they may generate 80% of a business’s profits and attract other star employees.

Attrition 8

Attrition Charisma Cost Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. This means that the rise in income is something our team members can largely influence and control on their own.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. The chances of Congressional action on this issue in 2012 are zero. 5,000 per election).

Company 13

Company Politics Policies Proposal 13

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. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Determining how much to share about your finances with your kids and when to do so can be a tough call. A 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Missy Sullivan references a 2012 study by U.S. Many high-wealth parents put off having conversations about money. They’re right to be worried.

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Budgeting Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In 2012 only about 21% (420,000) of the 2,000,000 stay-at-home fathers in the U.S. Our networks tend to tilt toward our own gender, and men are more likely to be in positions of influence in organizations. We decided that our children needed more parental involvement, a scenario faced by many dual-career couples.

Rogers 8

Rogers Career Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

At the current rate, 2012 will easily see more disputes than in the two previous years combined. Contests for influence over public policy have an added edge for managers during crises. Did all this serve to prevent discriminatory and selective state intervention during the crisis era?

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

A 2012 industry survey asked top hospital leaders (CEOs, COOs, and others) what was necessary to improve the patient experience. If he doesn’t feel that his caregivers are compassionate, that may heavily influence his overall perception of the experience.

Health Care 10

Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

At one point during argument on April 16, 2012, Justice Scalia said of the plaintiff salespeople: "They look like salesmen to me," while Chief Justice Roberts commented, after one exchange, that "they don't make sales," presumably because sales calls do not lead to a "binding commitment" from the doctors.

Pharmaceuticals 13

Pharmaceuticals Banking Objective Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

This is the question we investigated in our recent research , and we found that political preferences of CEOs do have a significant influence on the political decisions of their employees. Or was the CEO actually influencing employees’ behavior? Let’s look at one example: In 2012 Robert E.

Politics 8

Politics CEO Sample Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of equity capital for startups is one of a handful of jewels in the crown of the JOBS Act that swept through the House and Senate in a rare and refreshing show of bipartisanship, and was signed into law by President Obama April 5, 2012.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As Amar Bhide said in " Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups " (a 20-year-old HBR article that is an uncanny precursor to today's "lean startup" meme), traditional business planning processes are less relevant to bootstrappers — where resilience trumps planning and energy trumps experience. In short, the business plan is overrated.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Planning Taylorism Taylor 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8