Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

This same principle applies more broadly to clean technology; to compete, it must outperform incumbent technologies on these dimensions. It would only undermine the long-term goal of creating an innovative, sustainable, and competitive clean energy and technology marketplace if the U.S. But those days are coming to an end.

Energy 10

Energy Price Long-term Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. With its 2012 London Olympics sponsorship it resolved to optimize its ads in real time.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. Because no one is managing the store. How did we get here?

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. Finance Tech industry Technology' Maybe it’s both.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

We've started a program on reporting and investment that will collaborate with The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (as in Prince Charles) and the International Integrated Reporting Council to make sustainable performance concrete, measurable, comparable, and linked to scientific priorities.

Social Capital 10

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm. However, not all investments are equal.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

It has business applications in areas from manufacturing to architecture, as Exploration 's project to 'turn the desert green' shows. In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda. Breakthrough Finance.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

While looking for his next project, he happened to see the movie An Inconvenient Truth again and decided, during the sleepless night afterward, to build something meaningful out of his concern for the environment, his love of his native Colorado, and his knowledge of banking. Ethics Finance' government. “A A gun manufacturer?”

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 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. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding. Crowdfunding of debt can work.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Back in 2012, Erasmus’s CEO, Professor Hans Buller, was a huge proponent of VBHC and led the development of the organization’s 5-year VBHC strategy with one of us (Dr. Engaging leadership in the finance domain – representing the denominator of the value equation – is helpful as it will ensure dedicated resources.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Assuming the opt-in take up rate of 25.1%, as reported in my 2012 research with Ehud Peleg and Richard Thaler, that’s an under-statement of more than five million participants (75.4 Digital and mobile technology makes this process feasible on a mass scale. Using the latest Plan Sponsor Council of America data, 22.8%

Tools 9

Tools Participative Planning Education 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

And though the idea of VCs abandoning cleantech has been around since at least early 2012 , I was initially skeptical. “Clearly all of this reflects some sober reevaluation of the VC role in cleantech finance,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, adding that “We’ve maybe asked too much of VC.”

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Rather than relying on venture capitalists and marketers to try to project nascent demand for new innovations, creators can directly reach out to customers and communities to refine ideas and gauge interest. Suddenly, virtual reality was no longer a forgotten ‘90s trend but had become a hot area of technology.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Project Diversity Technology 8