Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources'

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

To combat this pricing pressure, I inevitably recommend introducing a lower priced version — a fighter brand — which competes with new entrants and serves price sensitive customers. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. For the right to offer iPhones to their customers, wireless carriers typically pledge to sell large volumes.

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

To combat this pricing pressure, I inevitably recommend introducing a lower priced version — a fighter brand — which competes with new entrants and serves price sensitive customers. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. For the right to offer iPhones to their customers, wireless carriers typically pledge to sell large volumes.

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

Quinn 10

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors?

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In many ways, app developers, like popular consumer brands in a supermarket, are locked in a fight for two scarce resources: consumer attention and shelf space. It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales.

Development 8

Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. Luxury hotel brand Melia is joining Accor and Rotana to open the country’s first international five-star hotel, the Gran Melia Ghoo. Reclaiming brand equity.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Under Wood, Sears became a pioneer in using demographic and economic trends to anticipate customer demand.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Building Empathy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Knowing where your professional passions lie puts “you in a good position,” says Dorie Clark, the author of Reinventing You : Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future. ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. What the Experts Say.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Corporate tweeters need to know that they aren’t just promoting a brand or solving a problem: they are performing for an audience, supporting customers throughout their journey, and even, subtly, selling. Social media isn’t merely a place for people to chat with each other and for brands to talk at their customers.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the rallying cry I've heard from widely read female bloggers over age 49, who are frustrated that a well-established cadre of younger women with young children — known as "mommybloggers" — garner extensive promotional contracts with major brand advertisers, while Boomer-aged women online are often ignored.

Marketing 8

Marketing Freedman Forrester Fashion 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. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Medicare tax that will be imposed on certain investment income for higher income Americans beginning in 2013. The Social Security tax holiday is designed to leave more money in our paychecks.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8