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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

in 2013 to 3.7 The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. If the GE board had had a finance committee, the board might have done a better job of overseeing the design and funding of its retirement plans. The board has since transformed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

If the divestment movement can reallocate capital toward clean technology companies, that could have a far greater impact on mitigating climate change than divestment alone. 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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

More US bank branches closed in 2013 than ever before. Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”. Finance Internet Retail' In our view, no. Here’s why.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. without any compliance process or technology in place.". The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant. 132 characters for Goldman; one giant leap for the Twitterverse.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance' This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In the guitar business , too.

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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.

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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

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.

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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. Vertical Sales Adoption. SMB Specialization. Inside Sales Roles.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. For instance, in our study on the digital maturity of French companies, we saw that while nearly six in 10 French people shopped online in 2013, only one in 10 French companies sold online that same year. Nevertheless, we should be careful not to overestimate the boon of digital transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group, exploring how pioneering providers are making change happen. Technological challenges.

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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'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. Prices for the 5S in the U.S. 5C prices in the U.S. start at $99 on contract and $549 off-contract.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world. percent to 7.5

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. Prices for the 5S in the U.S. 5C prices in the U.S. start at $99 on contract and $549 off-contract.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

As Pew Internet reports : Young adults: 50 percent of teen smartphone owners, aged 12-17, say they use the internet mostly on their cell phone, according to a 2013 Pew Internet report on Teens and Technology. Internal data from some finance, healthcare, and travel providers show similar mobile-only usage.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

The company provides services in a myriad of industries, such as health care, water treatment, aviation, and financing. Taken together, much of the research we reviewed shows that these barriers are so prevalent and significant that consistent monitoring just isn’t very likely.

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

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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.)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder." Today, the greatest number of multimillion-dollar women-owned businesses are in wholesale trade (20%), finance/insurance (12%), and transportation/warehousing (11%). In 1977, only 4.5%

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. But a lot of times, glitches have to do with newer technologies, which we are learning break in unexpected ways.

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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. more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013. . “I see the sparkle in the eyes of a few.

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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. But once IDEO grew to hundreds of Palo Alto employees, even Kelley couldn’t sustain the intimacy.

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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. I don''t think English is "better" than any other language. It was purely a practical choice, drawn from my own experiences in the global marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Consider what the board of General Electric has declared as its criteria for new directors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. This is because self-service, which requires ad network customers to pre-pay, forces app developers to use credit cards to finance their app advertising campaigns.

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