Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

Bond 10

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Barclays Bank PLC and The Walt Disney Company EMEA are great examples. To identify leaders, start by looking for people who care deeply.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. Innovating away from past exclusion.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. According to a Bloomberg report , banks were estimated to have received 14.97 Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

The partnership has been a triumph of efficiency — a win-win for the cultural climate of Judson and often-stretched student bank accounts. Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., Nesterly , an intergenerational homesharing service, is one of these promising innovations.

Education 12

Education Absenteeism Efficiency Hotels 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. How else did the companies projecting the greatest ROI from Big Data differ from underperformers? Yet ROI leaders in our study also included telecoms, retailers, banks and high-tech companies. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Then the lawyers step in, ask questions, and kill the project — or reduce it to a shadow of its potential. A leading professional services firm signed up 1,000 people to Slack groups before confidentiality lawyers closed down the project because it was cloud-based. Remind your company that there are risks to not innovating.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Compliance Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models. To keep up, new standards, architectures, and infrastructures will have to develop at the same pace. Internal diversity.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Secondly, they are global instruments — not national ones — and they are funded using bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies that are not controlled by any central authority or bank. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013).

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. We wanted to take a deeper look at some of the more abstract aspects of workplace design that can impact employee performance.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries.

Middle Management 14

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Toward the end of 2014, Google researchers unveiled a new project that uses neural networks and deep learning to identify multiple elements of a scene without human assistance. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Innovation Internet' All without you explicitly asking it to do so.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Clearly one reason is remittances: according to the World Bank, over $400 billion was sent back to developing countries in 2012. In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. If long-term infrastructure buildout is key, the focus could be on diaspora participation in these projects.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8