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 11

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. It is as plain as day that women are equally qualified to lead in terms of skill and talent, yet we capture far fewer job slots at the top. The Promotion Paradox.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown.

Company 13

Company Survey Finance Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise. 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).

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

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.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

The Syracuse story, for example, shows the top five telemarketers in New York were paid 44% — not 95% — of the $201 million they raised in 2013. Long-term value changes the math. Over the long term the telemarketer only got.2% Raising money always costs money, but the ROI typically improves over the long term.

Telemarketing 8

Telemarketing Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance' So allow me. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

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. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

And we need to focus on the aspect of the situation that surprises me the most: the lack of innovative financing mechanisms to allow investors (companies, individuals, or governments) to channel much needed funds to where we all know they will reap a reward. Corporate social responsibility Education Finance'

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

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.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 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.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Japan’s Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry published The Ito Review in 2014 which points to integrated reporting as a way to combat “short-termism.” For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. In contrast, several longer-term structural factors are contributing to the dearth of small business lending.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. Try thinking about this in terms of your own global business efforts. Translation software?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

.” Good means directors who exercise independent oversight and who are deeply engaged in the company’s long-term strategy. 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.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 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

Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2015

Roughly half report that the two aspects of employee performance most negatively affected by personal finances are stress and the ability to focus on work (50% and 47%, respectively). Overall productivity, absenteeism and tardiness, and employee engagement are also affected, according to participants. It bestows 'employer of choice' status.

Education 50

Education Survey Absenteeism Participative 50

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.

Development 8

Development Advertising Download Budgeting 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.

Banking 8

Banking Entrepreneur Finance Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

The stock market was intended to be a long-term vehicle for companies to raise money and for investors to reap the rewards after their money was utilized to grow those companies. Over the long term, markets are efficient and generally increase in value. Over the long term, markets are efficient and generally increase in value.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Long-term Efficiency 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. Problem No.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are two stories you can tell about finance in America. The number of companies targeted by activist hedge funds has increased dramatically since then, to more than 200 in 2013. Activists aside, the need to refocus the economy on long-term productivity is real. eBay is a recent example.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. competitiveness in terms of its digital economy and international data flows and thinking beyond traditional manufacturing and trade of physical goods and services. Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 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. 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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology. Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8