Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

RxAnte , Evolent , and Humedica are just three of the many new companies seizing the opportunity to help old players comply with new policy standards that focus on improving outcomes and efficiency. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

In an interview he told us: “SASB has now issued standards for 45 industries in six sectors The specific issues we examine for human capital include labor relations; fair labor practices; employee health, safety and wellbeing; diversity and inclusion; compensation and benefits; and recruitment, development and retention.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

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 8

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’d like to share what I learned while leading an SBM — to help other states as they navigate the health insurance landscape and, more broadly, to inform health-system leaders, employers, and policy makers about the challenges SBMs face and the solutions they’re developing. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. This program, our Fresh Food “Farmacy ,” has had clinical impacts superior to those provided by medications that cost billions of dollars to develop, and has done so at dramatically lower cost. Lee Hodges/Getty Images. >.

Class 8

Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

Furthermore, I understand all too keenly the complexities of determining a fair valuation for companies that are too early in their development to fit existing measurement standards and can't meet the criteria for standard bank or SBA funding. will not be legalized until 2013).

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

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

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 hours a day. Flash Fill (30 minutes to learn).

Bottom-up 15

Bottom-up Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Platform businesses bring together producers and users in efficient exchanges of value – Uber, for example, connects drivers and passengers just as YouTube connects videographers and viewers. He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. And we repeated this efficient process for other reforms, including complicated financial and regulatory decisions. physician assistants) in the ED.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

A witty comment or botched response on Twitter can travel to Facebook and even news websites in minutes (think of the Oreo tweet during the Superbowl blackout of 2013 ). After all, management exists to transform corporations into more efficient machines. Efficiencies are made the expense of humanity.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. Most of the developing world is overwhelmingly cash-dependent; in Malaysia, Peru, and Egypt, only 1% of transactions are cashless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? billion in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8