Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

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. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Later stage clean energy investments — like projects to deploy wind and solar — have remained somewhat more popular than early-stage start-ups, but are nonetheless down in recent years. Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak in 2013. Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

The first step is to carefully review each job posting. 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. Here’s how. Go well beyond job descriptions. Unflappable during crises.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Sales is both an art and a science. Vertical Sales Adoption.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

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. Nigeria, in particular (with a population projected to exceed that of the USA by 2050 ), will increase its workforce threefold in the next 50 years. Our future progress depends on it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. Finance Human resources' Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. Finance Venture capital' The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

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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 measurements can vary a lot and so can the predictions for how much it’s likely to expand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. in the September 26, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). From the Editors of Harvard Business Review and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

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). Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

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). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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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. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. And more are joining every day. Impressive, but that’s only the start.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

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. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow.

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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

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.” The actual outcome for Cisco turned out to be a 156% increase in net income from fiscal 2000 through fiscal 2013. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty'

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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

JUNE 8, 2016

He’s a middle-aged former minister of finance for France and a former professor at Harvard Business School. They organized the network around 7,500 open communities representing the various projects that required collaboration. Of course, Atos didn’t ban electronic communication outright. percent to 7.5

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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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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

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. Other programs are already up and running, putting MBAs to work in frontier markets. Let us unburden you.”

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Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

.” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Later, as a project officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, he channeled resources to risk mitigation schemes that allowed banks to better serve small farmers.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Our Prosperity Project (P2) strategy and platform is the largest and most pervasive business grassroots and advocacy platform in the United States. We expect to see more communication from employers to employees in the future ( our 2012 National Pollis set to release in early 2013). And I don't see a problem in that.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. Blockstream and the sidechain projects that follow will turn the blockchain into a universal platform that can be used for anything requiring signatures or authentication. Last year, a glitch caused 5,000 United flights to be grounded for two hours.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

since 2013 , and shrank by more than 1,700 in 2017 alone. In Sweden, for example, the portion of approved bank loans to small and medium-size enterprises has decreased by 15% over the last 10 years , and roughly 60% of all ventures in need of external financing have reported difficulties in accessing financing for their investments.

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Banking Entrepreneur Finance Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 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). Since 2013, there’s been about $2 billion invested in blockchain and bitcoin startups from the VC community.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The board approved, and Erasmus’s next CEO – Ernst Kuipers – drove this forward from 2013. Engaging leadership in the finance domain – representing the denominator of the value equation – is helpful as it will ensure dedicated resources. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 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. You’re right.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% in 2012; 5.4%

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GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

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. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

The genetic testing in question would be financed as an administrative cost, rather than as a regular medical claim, and would be for the benefit of the employer, not to inform the confidential doctor-patient relationship. The chair of the Health Project , an industry-financed group that evaluates wellness programs and annually bestows the C.

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9

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. Make politics less personal.

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Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 8