Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, the UN informs us that over the course of the 21 st century, Africa’s share of the world’s population will nearly double, from 13.1 Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions. But there is progress being made.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Example #2: Breaking into a new industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Although it is premature to declare this the greatest example of misgovernance in modern U.S. Among the effects: 703 fewer new and competing research projects. noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

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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). Examples include payroll, benefits, risk and compliance, and labor relations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A simple example is the all-hands meeting. 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. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In November, for example, David Kestenbaum of NPR’s Planet Money asked two just-anointed economics Nobelists, the University of Chicago’s Eugene Fama and Yale University’s Robert Shiller, what they thought a bubble was. The actual outcome for Cisco turned out to be a 156% increase in net income from fiscal 2000 through fiscal 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya. “If you are a CEO who has some large, profitable project you are shelving because of short-term worries,” he offered, “call Berkshire. Let us unburden you.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Predictions are that 2013 will be even more active as companies that have stockpiled cash look to invest in new growth opportunities. What managers can be freed up to contribute to the integration projects? Odds are the answer is yes. And this was a slow year. But acquisitions can be risky business. What priorities can be reset?

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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. However, remaining U.S. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Algorithms will harness personal data in order to assess an employee’s predicted success at work: for example, how likely she is to bounce around jobs. In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. And it potentially eliminates the need for all intermediaries in most transactions, even those outside finance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

European banks, for example, closed over 9,000 branches in 2016, which represents a 4.6% since 2013 , and shrank by more than 1,700 in 2017 alone. It turns out that women entrepreneurs who seek to finance their ventures using bank financing are increasingly forced to find solutions elsewhere. reduction in a single year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013).

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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.

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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. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5 Financed by VC firms. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

For example, if an employee costs $5,000 to insure and a family costs $10,000, the 30% cap on penalties increases from $1,500 to $3,000. For example, a self-insured company that learns its employees have certain genetic characteristics might want to become fully insured or vice versa. This should allow more-accurate cost predictions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. Gail was in her fifth year at a large finance firm when she recognized a disconcerting pattern. Get yourself an agent. So he does his homework.

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