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

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

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.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. 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.” and compete successfully.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In a concentrated market, competitors are few, and growth may come more from mergers and government lobbying than new product lines.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

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

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. into multiple global markets.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

We found that companies that were successful in building CEs did three things: (1) They all implemented modular product architectures; (2) they leased, instead of sold, at least some of their products; and (3) they expanded their refurbishing operations.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 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. The key, as with so many things in life, is to get beyond either/or.

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

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. Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

There are just two ways to increase ROIC: improve operating profit (by increasing revenues or cutting costs) or invest capital more wisely. 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. The bottom line?

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music (first downloads and then streaming) had changed the business dramatically. Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 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

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

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 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 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

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. He tried tech, finance, and real estate — all to no avail. “It’s very much, ‘Can you learn?

Career 12

Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

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

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. 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

AUGUST 6, 2015

As Diane Mulcahy explained in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article : ”Angel investors — affluent individuals who invest smaller amounts of capital at an earlier stage than VCs do — fund more than 16 times as many companies as VCs do,” she wrote, “and their share is growing.” Steven Moore.

Long-term 8

Long-term IPO Human Capital Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

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. In most industries, more competition lowers cost.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 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. These lenders vary along several dimensions  you can read more about them in our full report  but together they offer hope that the small business credit market may be being reinvented.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

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

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

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The company has adopted an Amazon-esque strategy; it now owns and operates twelve large warehouses well located to deliver loads of flooring, roofing, and other heavyweight building materials to do-it-yourself homeowners and contractors. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc., We expect to see more communication from employers to employees in the future ( our 2012 National Pollis set to release in early 2013). And yes, it can be difficult to navigate our nation's evolving campaign finance laws.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 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. Everyone knows what the monthly operational "nut" is. Here are some specific examples to illustrate our structure.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. 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

MAY 15, 2013

Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. Organizational culture is shaped by and overlaps with other cultures — especially the broader culture of the societies in which it operates. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g. The cultures of organizations are never monolithic.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8