The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Broad experience A broader range of educational backgrounds within corporate leadership can offer valuable perspectives and a more expansive outlook when confronted with uncertain circumstances. Their advisory board consists of individuals with educational backgrounds in fields such as medical sciences, economics, journalism, and finance.

Diversity 108

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 108

Chris Brady

AUGUST 16, 2010

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Letter 50

Letter Sports Open-book Blog 50

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. Leadership, good governance, commitment to the rule of law, and an enabling environment to attract investment. Without a solid consensus over the financing and resources needed, goals remain simply wishes.

Consensus 8

Consensus Finance Commitment Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Classic leadership lessons apply. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. Systemic problems that affect everyone but are beyond the ability of any one person to solve require collaboration skills.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Finance Human resources' Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? CHROs are standing at essentially the same crossroads that CFOs were in the 1980’s.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In 2014, the company set a strategic goal to double revenue by 2020, which required disciplined focus on specific strategic growth trajectories. 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

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

We don’t stop at interviewing and choosing good candidates; we give them detailed insight into the company’s finances, strategy, individual consultant performance, and implications on compensation so they can make a fully informed decision about whether to join us. They feel true ownership.

Team 11

Team Organization Management Consultative 11

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. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve?

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Although a lot of attention has been given to the idea that millennials in particular will prioritize a sense of purpose and meaning over raw earning power, the numbers are still pretty tough to ignore: looking at where graduates actually want to go, the biggest sectors for top graduates are still technology and finance.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Report Skills Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations. Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. Leadership Boards' Dupont did not give in to Nelson Pelz’s demands, but it did make big changes in its board.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

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. Moving from command-and-control leadership behaviors to improvement leadership behaviors will be required. ” They may be frogs in a boiling pot.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

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. Boards Leadership Wal-mart' Think GM and its delays in addressing problems with an ignition switch.).

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 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. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

According to the annual 2014 Youth Entrepreneurship Study conducted by YEC and Buzz Marketing Group, 81 percent of non-self-employed individuals believe they will be a business owner or self-employed at some point because of the new economy. And who creates more value than entrepreneurs?

Education 9

Education Long-term Learning-by-Doing Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors? Other important groups like GRI are also playing a role.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. ” In contrast, the CEO explained the leadership changes as necessary to “respond to the fast-changing needs” of customers, employees and partners and to “transform our business for the future.”

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

HBR’s resulting list of the 100 Global CEOs who have delivered the best financial results, published in its November 2014 issue, placed Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos squarely at the top. Monsanto’s Hugh Grant suffers most heavily when ranked by this more holistic assessment of how his company has fared under his leadership.

CEO 8

CEO Reputation Metrics EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. Although he didn’t have a U.S.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. As a great organizational scholar, James March, once noted, “ Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry.” It’s not just products.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. Will there be progress in this regard?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

In 2012 when Geisinger Health System was finalizing a destination-care agreement for cardiac surgery, the leadership team determined that we were not ready to pursue similar initiatives in spinal surgery; the necessary care-delivery systems were not yet sufficiently in place in that clinical area.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The parts of the business where the approach is used most intensively grew revenue by double digits in 2014. From its founding 31 years ago, Intuit has been an entrepreneurial company, creating personal finance and tax preparation products such as Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. Then he meets with the leadership team.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. In June 2014, almost 800 accelerators from across the country competed for $2.5

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

One day in December 2014, Sergey, the Russia general manager for a multinational consumer goods company, was up early in the morning, watching the ruble’s value slide by the minute. of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

In 2014, global political volatility reached an intensity not seen since the end of the Cold War. The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And America’s willingness to weaponize finance has grown substantially as a consequence. What does business leadership look like in this changed context?

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

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Finance 131

Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever. Unicorns are: Small in size. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. of Apple’s buybacks reported thus far for fiscal 2014. I disagree with this priority.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. But in April, just after U.S. a competitive edge in the global war for tech talent.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) The finance sector has also been active in responding on all five occasions. Second, many companies have invested substantial time and money in establishing uncompromising core values such as diversity and inclusion.

CEO 8

CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8