Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Periscope is creating entirely new expectations around media consumption. 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. Patagonia is spreading expectations around supply chain transparency.

Trends 50

Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. He was fired shortly thereafter for the offense of "improperly communicating company information through social media.". Complicating matters, social media in the enterprise is spreading at viral speeds. "Go

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

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

JUNE 3, 2014

With a market size of $8 billion in 2013 Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) is becoming big business. million as of 2013. Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. Welcome to the brave new world of e-Sports.

Industry 8

Industry Sports Advertising Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Far too often, the media conflates profit and revenue when reporting on charity fundraising. This collapsing by the media of profit and revenue when it comes to charity consultants of all types infects public attitudes about good people doing good work throughout the sector. Non-profit Finance & Accounting'

Telemarketing 8

Telemarketing Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

They have given their social media staff a clear mission and a great deal of autonomy; the account’s managers chat with customers, offer up front to solve problems, and empathize with frustrated travelers. But the worst have exported their old tricks to new media. How do you measure empathy on social media? This matters.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 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

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Note, for fiscal 2013 the U.S. So please Mr. President (and all others in the government and media), stop saying it might and make it very clear that the U.S. Cutting costs Finance Government' It would force the U.S. government to stop additional borrowing and limit spending to the revenue it takes in.

Maturity 9

Maturity Cost Finance Budgeting 9

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.” Then Shiller jumped in with a fourth: “The news media are involved. There were no bubbles before there were news media.”.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

In 2013, the world of "influencer marketing" is a crucial element of the marketing mix. They want marketers to better help women age well; it's about looks, finance, dreams, work, parents, and kids. Barbara Grufferman writes The Best of Everything After 50 , talking to Boomer women about health, style, finance, sex, and design.

Marketing 8

Marketing Freedman Forrester Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Despite all the media attention venture capital gets, it’s far from the most common source of startup funding. So Shai Bernstein, an assistant professor of finance at Stanford’s GSB, and Arthur Korteweg of USC’s Marshall School of Business devised an experiment to identify what characteristics do distinguish startups.

Long-term 8

Long-term IPO Human Capital Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The band was distributing its self-produced first album, having created buzz for it in online forums and chat rooms and building a community there (this was several years before Facebook and Twitter transformed social media). I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

As a long-time business journalist in the mainstream media, my professional and personal reputation was on the line. 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.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

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. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

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. When I post using social media, whether it is through Twitter or our internal social media tools, I can engage and connect immediately.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Early on, BuildDirect had its setbacks and near-death experiences, but in each of the last four years growth has accelerated.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

That compares to only 16% who found the media most credible and 12% who view political parties most credible. 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

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 fact, we may be seeing a technology disruption in small business lending along the lines of what weve seen over the last few decades in industries like travel and media.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Did you know that some life insurance underwriters are attempting to assess your personality — via your magazine and website subscriptions, the photos you post to social media, and more — in order to determine how risky an investment you are? We’ll see advanced bots manipulating social media and stocks simultaneously.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

The researchers looked at systematic reviews conducted between 2006 and 2013. The effect sizes for these trials are still quite small, but when added together, there was more, and qualitatively better, evidence associating sugar consumption and increased weight gain the closer one got to 2013. But what about peer review?

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 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. Building Empathy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

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

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In the wake of intense media coverage of the dispute, the governor intervened and required UPMC and HighMark to renegotiate. These payment changes should be accelerated so that providers have a clear direction on where financing of health care is heading. But this left many patients with huge bills and no access to their doctor.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8