Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. Rajamannar involved finance early. At many companies we work with, analytics becomes the connective tissue between the different visions of what drives results emerging from marketing and finance.

Finance 12

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 12

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

Books 150

Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Germany is in many ways a perfect Petri dish, as not only has inequality risen significantly since unification, they have also forgone the shift towards a finance-driven economy seen in Britain and the United States, and have seen few jobs outsourced due to globalization. per year in 1992 to just 0.3%

Technology 55

Technology Report Productivity Products 55

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Max also oversaw the TW:IN trend spotter network until 2013, hosting meetups everywhere from Johannesburg to Manila. The Expectation Economy is sector-agnostic.

Trends 50

Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

One of the biggest challenges facing any company in global expansion mode is how to maintain swift and sure communication. At Rakuten we faced this challenge and have embraced a solution that not only improved our communication as a company, but it propelled us into the ranks of global expansion leadership. What do you do?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Everyone knows that large companies share board members, but it’s hard to appreciate just how enmeshed global governance has been for decades until you see the connections. We plotted shared directorships among 176 large companies in 1976 and 2013, two years that followed a major global economic crisis. Interlocks, 2013.

Crisis 8

Crisis Globalization Banking Consensus 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

Bond 10

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

But do such gestures actually help slow global warming? Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak in 2013. Finance Sustainability' The nation’s most iconic oil family will no longer be profiting from the fuel sources responsible for overheating the planet.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist How To Energy Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

This was a major theme at the Global Education & Skills Forum last week in Dubai. At the forum we were reminded that the global economy is facing a “talent time bomb.” And not only for their own benefit, the economic fortunes of many other global regions depend on it.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 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. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

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' Even HR itself agrees.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

With a market size of $8 billion in 2013 Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) is becoming big business. It’s not just about the players, either: people are going online just to watch the games being played, a global viewership estimated at about 71.5 million as of 2013. Welcome to the brave new world of e-Sports.

Industry 8

Industry Sports Advertising Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Recently, Bitcoin has become popular in the country with the digital currency trading at $13,000 USD in October (at the time about 50% higher than Bitcoin’s global price).

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

As Bitcoin entrepreneur and Circle founder Jeremy Allaire — whose company this morning announced another $17 million in venture capital financing — explained at a panel I moderated Monday at Harvard Business School, there is an appropriate role for regulators to play in ensuring consumer protection. When companies like Mt.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Decentralization Banking Compliance 8

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 9

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. A second, separate set of necessary skills deals with systems literacy.

Training 12

Training Leadership Health Care Education 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

“We recruited globally, and this candidate was absolutely top flight. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. It’s no accident that ABF is being launched at the Milken Institute Global Conference this week in Los Angeles. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Six years after the global recession began, many parts of the world are still struggling to achieve growth. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. For all the global rhetoric around inequality, the absence of credible global voices on the topic is notable.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. The most successful accelerators identify the respective entrepreneur’s specific financing needs rather than assuming that there is one path to success and scale.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. After all, when HR people routinely talk to finance staff, they are effectively working as members of a cross-functional team. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. If we train enough of them, I think we’ll see many positive changes in the years to come.

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

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. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08 Cuts to 2013 budget : $209 Million or 5%. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.)

Health Care 8

Health Care Budgeting Pharmaceuticals Review 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. 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

JULY 3, 2018

Our first example, JLG Industries, is a globally recognized manufacturer of lift equipment used in construction and maintenance. JLG jump-started its CE execution in 2013 by launching an asset management program, which established a predictable flow of used assets and justified investment in a scalable refurbishment facility.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. into multiple global markets. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR. to eight global offices, dispersed across multiple time zones.

COO 12

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Even though the Japanese government dared to take deficit financing in order to boost the economy, it mostly injected money into building infrastructure, but didn’t expand spending on welfare much. The Korean economy is increasing at a rate of less than 3% for the third consecutive year in 2013 – far below its potential growth.

Consensus 8

Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

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.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

I wouldn’t be surprised if the statistics are worse in my industry, financial services, where so many companies are large, global, regulated, and structurally complex. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) This is what I learned: Ask, listen, and be transparent with employees.

Management 10

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Marijuana companies will trade on the major stock exchanges, and they’ll have global businesses. And more are joining every day.

Industry 9

Industry Retail Banking Brand 9

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. Looking further into the future, Iran is a potential global trade hub. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. By the end of 2013, Gartner research estimates half of all companies will have to produce social media records for e-discovery. "Follow us here for updates on our work, our research, and our people.".

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In the first half of 2012, thousands of merger and acquisition deals were announced globally, worth more than $900 billion. Predictions are that 2013 will be even more active as companies that have stockpiled cash look to invest in new growth opportunities. Are acquisitions part of your company's growth plan? And this was a slow year.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. This observation highlights the challenges that global organizations face in establishing and maintaining a unified culture when operating in the context of multiple national, regional and local cultures. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8