Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated? Create one integrated workforce strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. The goal is create a common platform, “an open ecosystem for the open road,” the alliance website proclaims. With a similar goal, the U.S.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Keith Ferrazzi – Addresses behaviors that block the achievement of strategic goals. Michel Kripalani – President & CEO of Oceanhouse Media, an app development company, ranked by Inc 500 as one the Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2014. Strategy and Culture Advisors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

Illicit outflows from Africa totaled $69 billion in 2014. They need education, health care, decent wages, access to finance. Without a solid consensus over the financing and resources needed, goals remain simply wishes. Part of the answer is that the vast wealth of Africa is often not being translated into development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian For instance, a 2014 law mandates that the government must show preference for local manufacturers over foreign firms when granting public tenders, without regard to differences in quality. ” Similarly, hours after the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Finally, besides the emergence of many new programs, 2014 also saw the demise of many existing programs, some top-rated in the past. of the companies raised a significant round of financing within a year of graduating from a program, with an average raise of $1.5 Entrepreneurial finance Entrepreneurial management'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank.

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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' Even HR itself agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Startup accelerators support early-stage, growth-driven companies through education, mentorship, and financing. Accelerators may share with these others the goal of cultivating early-stage startups, but it is clear that they are different, with distinctly different business models and incentive structures. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. Startups, on the other hand, aren’t debt financed, because they’re too risky and unproven, and have no assets—not so appealing to lenders. PE’s proponents say this disparaging view doesn’t add up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

However, the Financial Conduct Authority subsequently stopped requiring mandatory quarterly reporting in 2014. On November 7, 2014, the FCA published a new policy stating that firms were no longer required to publish quarterly management statements. Luckily, we can learn from a similar experiment in the UK.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. I’ve been grappling with this personally, as I have pursued two important goals for 2014: to run a marathon and to organize a conference on pursuing dreams. Paraphrasing Proverbs, Where there is no vision, we really do perish.

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Venture Capitalist Conference CRM Career 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. Certainly an important goal for Walmart’s board and current management is to improve the company’s compliance capability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

More than 10 million consumers benefited from telehealth use in 2014, and insurance carriers are increasingly covering these visits because they’re both more convenient for their members and less expensive than office visits. Leverage big data. Leverage big data.

Health Care 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The largest businesses are able to secure financing with relative ease and on strong terms, including historically low interest rates. In September, the SBA announced that the banks had already increased their small business lending by $17 billion, putting them on track to meet their goal by the end of 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 billion in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. In 2014, network members have submitted nearly 2,000 eConsults, and the volume is rapidly increasing.

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Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. And many diversity programs fail. “It has always required people to do the work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care. When reducing cost and improving service is the goal, reducing hospital services or moving those services to much lower cost settings becomes the target.

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Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals. The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. Georg: BMW has been very successful in this area.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But the date on it was from 2014. We have a set time to speak every Monday to discuss our goals and expectations, and we do summary emails every Friday to capture what we have learned throughout the week. And I’m teaching him what it takes to build and run a business — from finances to operations to projections.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. Their goal was to erect a massive, multi-structure barn for a neighbor. By 5 PM that afternoon, a mere 10 hours later, the completed barn stood atop its foundation. farming communities, accomplishes several things.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There is reason to worry that the reward system in our field, particularly in the publication process, is misaligned with the goals of good science. Similarly, it is unclear why “impact” is an apt measure if the goal of research is to answer questions. at the end of 2014.

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Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. Laura Schneider for HBR. What builds management perspectives?

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Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Of all the generations alive today, millennials are the most willing to trade financial return for greater social impact, according to “ Millennials and Money ,” a 2014 study from Merrill Lynch’s Private Banking and Investment Group. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues' According to another study, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

I started out in finance but then…”. Recently, New York Times columnist David Brooks reflected on Sting’s talk at the 2014 TED conference, in which he revisited his childhood as a middle-aged man, seeking inspiration from some of his earliest experiences. I worked for a number of years in publishing before I…”. “I

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Career Participative Learning-by-Doing Workshop 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Roughly 80% of individuals and families who bought their health insurance through an SBM or FFM in 2014 received a tax credit to defray the cost of premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Burwell, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

But while performance goals are always top of mind for managers , many overlook the role of employee work-life balance in driving that performance. 92% feel they’re now better able to prioritize all their responsibilities and goals. Everything looks delicious, but we can’t eat it all (though we might try).

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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.

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Insurance Committee Power Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

In 2014, global political volatility reached an intensity not seen since the end of the Cold War. We have pushed the Russians to the point that Putin believes we’re trying to undermine him personally and that our goal is regime change. The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. Iran and Syria.

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Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

I had just made what felt like a pile of money, achieved a long-term goal of building and selling my business, and was about to spend the coming months traveling abroad, one tropical country at a time. billion in 2014. Here’s an example from one of my coaching clients: Get my personal finances in order.

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Entrepreneur Follow-up Constraint Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India launched Aadhaar in 2009 with the then-improbable goal of giving every Indian a single digital identity in the form of a biometric authenticated 12-digit number.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. So we parted ways with our outside management agency in late 2014 and we brought all core business operations in-house.

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