Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Focus obsessively on the short run. Define long term ‘something we can focus on once the basics are in place.’ This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Inflate budgets.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

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.

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Bond Company Long-term Short-term 10

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. Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. That sounds like progress.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

‘Tis the season for futurists, forecasters, and analysts to line up with seers, fortune tellers, and prophets to earnestly foretell what 2013 has in store for us. And only one of the sixteen — short-term weather forecasts — has any scientific foundation.”

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Heskett Collins Uncertainty Short-term 45

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Prioritising Short Term Profits 2. Short Term Thinking 3. In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

For example, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City and Salt Lake City are among the fastest-growing hubs for high-tech startups in the country, according to a 2013 report by the Kauffman Foundation. In layman’s terms, venture capitalists don’t want to fly across the country for a board meeting. About the Author.

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Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. households are generally not directly at risk in short-term wholesale funding arrangements.” Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. earlier this month.

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Banking Crisis Morale System 50

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. The small-scale project would test a possible solution in a low-risk way, in 100 days or less, and without the pressure of having to be right.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. In short, you wouldn’t have needed big data at all to do better than Google Flu Trends. Unfortunately, no.

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Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

More than 2,500 developers and start-ups have reached out to the IBM Watson Group since the Watson Developers Cloud was launched in November 2013. They brought in 2000 people, a dozen projects, a couple of Big Data and content analytics tools, and a consulting unit (outside of IBM Global Services ). So how does it work?

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That leaves at least three other deep benefits to investing in green power on your own facilities in ways that may take longer to pay back in traditional terms. Companies need to invest in innovation and resilience, which may require projects that pay back over longer periods of time or in ways that are not easily measured.

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CEO ROI Environment Hedge 8

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).

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2016

as of 2013, there were 2.6 Access to an “on call,” paid alumni consulting pool to cover parental leaves, special short term projects, and other on-demand work opportunities. With the large numbers of returning professionals and other career transitioner populations (e.g. million women in the U.S.

Career 8

Career Short-term Follow-up Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Emotional groups, which represent communities of growth, are difficult to value in terms of their contribution to the organization, given their unpredictability, and it can be risky for management to try to engineer them. Collaborative: CCAs are not solo pet projects, but require employees to work together.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Later, as a project officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, he channeled resources to risk mitigation schemes that allowed banks to better serve small farmers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. of revenues).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Are you stalled in a project at work, waiting on someone else to take initiative to get things moving? It doesn't always mean you have authority over a project. Many of us were conflating the two terms: fault and responsibility. Honda quickly followed up by announcing a new release for 2013, a year ahead of the original plan.

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Short-term Case Study Learning-by-Doing Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

The English grandmaster Nigel Short recently declared that computers are stripping chess of its mystery; by crunching reams of data, computers can deconstruct once-obscure board positions in a matter of seconds and reveal the optimal move. Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. Take my company, athenahealth.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term. The region has piqued executives’ interest, as it benefits from improving business conditions, demand for infrastructure projects, and a strong demographic profile. Latin America.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. But because midsize companies lack the resources of big companies, which can experiment with multiple new strategies and launch pilot projects, midsize firms are at risk when they divert scarce resources from their core business.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

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.

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GDP Education Finance Globalization 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 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. External agile talent is hired for expediency, for the short term, to fill a specific need.

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Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Short of any singing, dancing, and costume changes, this sequence could have been taken from Bollywood, a movie industry widely known for its fantastical flights of fancy. Public policy for rooting out corruption calls for a systemic approach, with carrots and sticks to motivate cultural, institutional, and behavioral change in the long term.

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Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems. For example, when P&G was making its digital push in 2012 and 2013, it was already well ahead of most companies—and perhaps all of them—in the consumer products industry.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

This is the time to “think small”— both in terms of the number of objectives and the timeframe in which you plan to accomplish them, according to Weintraub. To ease this problem, work toward short-term targets that bring you closer to your end goal. Be realistic. “But over time it just kept gnawing at me.”

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Goal CAGR Career Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

In 2013, they recruited 212 undergraduate students at FSU to participate in an experiment. Short answer: Yes. Stothart said that in terms of effect size, their results were consistent with those of the distracted driving literature, which has looked at the effects of texting or talking on the phone (interacting) while driving.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Participative Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Were you misled by the data?

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. The book cites short-term innovation, in the decision to borrow the computers, and the team’s ability to creatively resolve conflict, as marks of innovative leadership.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. The book cites short-term innovation, in the decision to borrow the computers, and the team’s ability to creatively resolve conflict, as marks of innovative leadership.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Hiring managers often view newcomers to their organizations as not only long-term assets but also short-term burdens: people who need to be inducted, trained, and given lighter loads as they get up to speed, inevitably slowing everyone else down. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Team Learning Curve Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas. Here’s how we did it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

since 2013 , and shrank by more than 1,700 in 2017 alone. And that even when they are approved for financing, they face more demanding credit terms compared to men. In 2017, we launched a research project in order to learn more about the effects of banks’ lending model transformations.

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Banking Entrepreneur Finance Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To expect anything as complex as this particular project to emerge fully functional on day one was the first (and perhaps most important) failure. The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. Playing the blame game.

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