Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs would pay VCs well, through carry, when they do what they say they will: generate great returns in excess of the public markets.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

They usually run into at least one of four barriers: They lack access to used products, they aren’t able to refurbish or recycle used products in a cost-effective way, their products are not designed with circularity in mind, and their customers discount the value of refurbished or remanufactured products. Two Success Stories.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. You won’t have a lot of money.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 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

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. billion in 1997 to U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

The Syracuse story, for example, shows the top five telemarketers in New York were paid 44% — not 95% — of the $201 million they raised in 2013. And consider that if the tele-marketer is paid a flat fee, as some are, then the expense of calling you has already been incurred, whether you give to the charity directly or not.

Telemarketing 8

Telemarketing Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Unless your company’s return on capital exceeds its cost of capital, no amount of revenue growth can create value. For the many firms whose cost of capital and return on capital are roughly equal, in fact, the only path to value creation is to increase return on capital.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

By serving the price sensitive market, Apple will grow its business with new early-bird customers. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. It will preserve the 5S''s margins. Apple Customers'

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

By serving the price sensitive market, Apple will grow its business with new early-bird customers. Often times a premium product with large market share encounters a new wave of competition that is winning customers via rock bottom prices. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. It will preserve the 5S’s margins.

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Roughly 80% of individuals and families who bought their health insurance through an SBM or FFM in 2014 received a tax credit to defray the cost of premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. After all, when HR people routinely talk to finance staff, they are effectively working as members of a cross-functional team.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. The size of the gig economy and how fast it’s growing also seem to be over-imagined at times.

Quinn 10

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Will they work or won’t they?

Insurance 9

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In comparison to larger firms, small businesses are less well equipped to efficiently navigate the loan process  in economic parlance, their search costs are higher.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. million apps as of July 2015.

Development 8

Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. In 2013, the multinational contract manufacturer Flextonics — which makes products for Apple and Microsoft — began offering Lab IX , a service that connects startups with manufacturing partners.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Implementing the model would cost only $100,000 – so the project was quickly declared one of BuildDirect’s five rocks.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down. That could be a bad thing, a step away from investing in talent.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That''s not a cost-effective strategy. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 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. For a junior programmer who might make a market-rate salary of $60,000, we'd offer perhaps $48,000 plus commission.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

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. So find them, ask questions, and let them help you.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Is the cost structure too high? Consider what the board of General Electric has declared as its criteria for new directors.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 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. What distinguishes it from lower cost Walmart or more convenient Amazon?

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. Failure to share the surplus.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. But that’s just not true.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. Treasury securities; the world’s largest trading nation; the world’s largest e-commerce market; and the world’s largest economy in purchasing-power-parity terms. And once again, the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Either way, employers will know who did not agree to the testing and would be allowed to fine noncompliant employees, up to 30% for nonsmokers and 50% for smokers, but now those percentages could be multiplied by the cost of the full family policy, rather than the individual employee’s. This should allow more-accurate cost predictions.

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market. So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. real estate market showing signs of recovery, this is probably a better time to talk fiscal restraint than two years ago. entry into World War I.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8