Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Sridhar had a small network management tools business that basically functioned as a highly profitable cash cow. Fast-forward to 2013: Zoho is a $200 million dollar a year company. The initial cash needs to come from revenues, not financing. Not even any kind of bank financing. At that time, no one had heard of him.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Sixty-four percent of study participants have vertical sales specialists on their sales force (calling on verticals such as public sector, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, etc.). Trends for 2013 and 2014 projected annual revenue attributed to field sales as opposed to inside sales varied by industry. Vertical Sales Adoption.

Metrics 11

Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

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. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 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). But the locus and scale of this activity is now changing.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

But digitization is more than just a change of tools. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Instead of designing tools and implementing them in a top-down approach, managers should rely on their staff’s digital maturity, which is often higher than they might assume. This change is happening more commonly than we think.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. The most successful accelerators identify the respective entrepreneur’s specific financing needs rather than assuming that there is one path to success and scale.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

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' That needs to change.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

However, they don’t have the tools or practices to best allocate capital, and as a result, 92% of companies allocate their capital the same way year over year. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. The costs of AI-enabled tools are falling, and availability is rising.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 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. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. By the end of 2013, Gartner research estimates half of all companies will have to produce social media records for e-discovery. Other tools focus on preventing rogue posts from ever reaching the web.

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

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

OCTOBER 30, 2018

” Indeed, the gig economy has not only turned millions of Americans into contractors, but it’s given the more successful entrepreneurs the tools to grow even faster. The size of the gig economy and how fast it’s growing also seem to be over-imagined at times. ” This lines up with EY’s recent findings.

Quinn 10

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Decision-makers argue that users only need quick, task-focused tools on their mobile devices, because the desktop will always be the preferred choice for more in-depth, information-seeking research. Internal data from some finance, healthcare, and travel providers show similar mobile-only usage.

Content 11

Content Audience Marketing Strategy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

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

Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2015

Financial education can help, but new voluntary benefits—such as student loan refinancing—offer employers a more proactive tool for combatting this productivity drain. Research shows that money worries have a distinct negative impact on employees’ ability to perform their jobs. About the Author. About SoFi.

Education 50

Education Survey Absenteeism Participative 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

So users rely on tools, primarily search, to navigate the “aisles” and find the apps they want. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. The virtual shelves that line the Apple iTunes and Google Play app stores are brimming with 3.1

Development 8

Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

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. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Determining how much to share about your finances with your kids and when to do so can be a tough call. A 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Missy Sullivan references a 2012 study by U.S. Money is a tool, not a toy. Many high-wealth parents put off having conversations about money. Foster a stewardship mindset.

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Budgeting Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP). Lee Hodges/Getty Images. >. Diabetes has long been one of the most expensive medical conditions.

Class 8

Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I have inflated all the incomes to 2013 dollars to make comparisons more easily understood. Like a sales tax, income tax was seen primarily as a revenue earner and not as a tool for influencing behavior. Let’s look at how the pendulum has swung and how the treatment of the super-rich has changed. The First Era: 1862-1915.

System 8

System Incentives Hedge Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Digitally enabled tools and processes have altered what and how a business sells, flipped the tables on the typical customer relationship, introduced a glut of new channels and competitors, and made it harder for organizations to break through the “noise.”. Digital disruption has driven much of this shift.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

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

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 hours a day. Flash Fill (30 minutes to learn).

Bottom-up 15

Bottom-up Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 15

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 Your Data Collection Tool. 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.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

So most companies in traditionally male-dominated sectors (IT, finance, law, most heavy industry) are unwittingly speaking and selling “male” while they profess to want balance. Ads are a great tool for building gender awareness, and watching your own ads can be a great tool for surfacing your company’s own assumptions.

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8