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. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. VCs barely invest in their own funds.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This of course begs the question: is this self-inflicted inter-domain complexity a problem? Ironically, we are crummy at dealing with it because of the predominance of narrow knowledge siloes – which are of course the self-same knowledge siloes that created the inter-domain complexity in the first place. Should we be worried about it?

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

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 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Finance Human resources' And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. Yet neither has collapsed.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

This, of course, raises an obvious question: Why are so few CEOs skilled at capital allocation? Looking at the resumes of current CEOs across developed markets suggests that the answer may be that many lack training in the skills of investment analysis.

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 ZB by 2020.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. Of course, we all want to make good decisions, and it makes for an appealing can-do story to identify the job you want and land it.

Career 12

Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Employees, particularly those in the sales and marketing functions, need to know the rules of the road," Langford says. By the end of 2013, Gartner research estimates half of all companies will have to produce social media records for e-discovery.

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

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 10

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. There is tons of evidence, much of it compiled by the formulator of the efficient market hypothesis, Eugene Fama , that value investing works.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

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 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

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. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. With more than two centuries of making everything from gunpowder to nylon and Tyvek, Dupont Co.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 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

MAY 15, 2013

Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. The problem, of course, is that organizational immune systems also can attack agents of needed change, and this has important implications for on-boarding and integrating people into organizations. ." — Rolf Winkler.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? ” It’s a question only you can answer, of course. ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. They “carved out time on nights and weekends” to do research and market analysis.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

They were carefully chosen, of course. He had no idea that the ad they’d just run to launch their latest mass-market device was so completely male-oriented. After all, Red Bull and P&G were strategically going after a market segment they had chosen to focus on. .” He was horrified, and I hadn’t said a word.

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

of course). Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. So they began to prepare for their next decade. A New Model.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. Failure to launch the right side.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 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 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. billion in 2013. to assist with the local go-to-market approach.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Its approach was the first to align the key actors in the ecosystem in a way that addressed the critical shortcomings — range, resale value, grid capacity — that undermine the electric car as a mass-market proposition. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

The genetic testing in question would be financed as an administrative cost, rather than as a regular medical claim, and would be for the benefit of the employer, not to inform the confidential doctor-patient relationship. This figure is likely to decline as genetic testing technology improves and more vendors get into the market.

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9

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. Last year, of course, the Tea Party wing of the Republican House majority decided instead to stage a showdown, resulting in a downgrading of the U.S.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. The ACA legislation addressed this by establishing different financing models.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Of course, the ACA (or Obamacare) remains a flawed law. Not in health care, which is not structured for true market competition. In many markets, there is only one main provider, at the most two, and they shadow-price each other, meaning they make sure prices charged to insurance companies are similar. Encourage Competition.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8