Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2015

Invest in new business ideas: With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

Diversity 50

Diversity Conference Competitive Advantage Participative 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

corporations from 1985 to 2015. From various archival sources, including the Marquis Who’s Who and Bloomberg’s Executive Profile & Biography, we gathered information on their educational background, such as the school they attended for an MBA and their year of graduation. firms, and put the brakes on diversification.

Influence 12

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

HAVING ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ REGARDING PERSONAL VS. BUSINESS FINANCES. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. When the entire family participates and a quorum is reached, the entire family takes ownership of that decision and the results, for better or worse. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Objective 50

Objective Morale Long-term Project 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Composed almost entirely of independent directors, it was a distinguished and diversified group of former top executives and other leaders with relevant experience. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. In the cover story of the latest Bloomberg Businessweek , Nick Summers reports that many IBMers now refer to what is officially called Roadmap 2015 as “Roadkill 2015.”

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Despite five years of explicit and repeated warnings, the executive team and the board of directors were remarkably slow to see the breadth and gravity of this fraud, and to address it effectively. It was yet another two years before Stumpf brought in consultants in 2015 to investigate the full scope of impact on consumers.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Thanks to the rapid ascent of spymail — email that secretly reveals a recipient’s location and behavior when it is opened — criminals can invade an out-of-office executive’s inbox to steal confidential information. Here’s how it works. there has been a terror attack, they have been kidnapped, etc.)

Travel 8

Travel Execution Hotels Information 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. The failures continue.

Planning 8

Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

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. The company’s finance organization was developing a new three-year Operating Expense (OPEX) plan, at the same time that HR rolled out their new plan.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

We have replicated these results in other surveys of C-suite executives at large public pension and sovereign wealth funds. An influx of that scale would dwarf the approximately $78 billion invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2015.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. A related issue is that ZBB is often executed exclusively within organizational silos. It was apparent that others in the company shared this view.

Zero Based Budgeting 9

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2015, Boeing launched the Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop AI technology for airlines. These are amazing technologies with great promise for any level of executive in any B2C or B2B company. This is essential to determine where in the organization impact is most needed.

USP 8

USP Airlines Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is significant — there were 6,822 claims of sexual harassment in 2015. Indeed, a 2015 survey showed that 71% of women do not report sexual harassment, and far fewer bystanders report harassment that they have witnessed. Why do so few victims and observers report sexual harassment?

Report 11

Report Long-term Training Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Let’s look at how a couple of job hunters I’ve worked with, an administrative assistant and a C-suite executive, translated their notes into effective résumés. ” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Note the problem you solved, how, and improvements that resulted.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

According to Glassdoor’s 2015 Employment Confidence Survey, about 60% of people report that benefits and perks are a major factor in considering whether to accept a job offer. A survey from The Creative Group found that only 9 % of executives think productivity would decrease significantly if employees used more vacation time.

Insurance 15

Insurance Policies Survey Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion each on buybacks and dividends, equivalent to 134% of its net income, and its executives can do up to $8.1

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

After all, in some ways, the situations were similar: A group whose members may not have worked together before must form a close-knit team quickly and execute their duties in a way that meets the organization’s guidelines to the letter. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

They believe big companies are weighed down by their own success, too invested in the past to create and execute new ideas. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. ” I disagree.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 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. Similarly, in 2015 Techstars committed to doubling the representation of women and minorities in their programs within four years.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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. Most importantly, executives have to follow developments closely.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Asking poor people to think about their finances impairs their cognitive performance, while the rich show no change. For instance, employers shouldered more than $27 billion in 2015 for opiate misuse alone. We are not the first to compare the effects of economic security on subjective responses. The same is true for the private sector.

Cost 8

Cost Document Finance Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Alas, as 2015 unfolded, concerns arose that the client’s business, and that of other similar companies, might not be legal in its core U.S. Blickstein and his finance team had already begun to analyze the options. Home Run’s media billings and its revenue, took off, growing more than tenfold in less than two years.

Media 9

Media Hammer Software Company 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. 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. Unlike activists, directors and executives cannot forego long-term thinking.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Senior executives should not lose perspective on the enormous opportunities in Iran, but they must be prepared to navigate some serious challenges. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Senior executives should be ready to trace the origins of and combat grey market trade and counterfeits of their products in Iran.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

“We needed an enduring strategy independent of any legislation,” recalls MedStar executive vice president Eric R. CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. billion in 2010 to $4.9

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We still believe the executives at Tejon Ranch made some mistakes, as did we, but our biggest collective mistake was thinking in terms of threats rather than opportunities. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

A 2016 analysis of more than 20,000 firms in 91 countries found that companies with more female executives were more profitable. There’s another bias at play here, too: A 2015 paper in Organization Science, summarized in this HBR article , suggests that people overestimate the amount of conflict that actually exists on diverse teams.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. In a 2015 report on the Millennial traveler, “free Internet access” was the top-ranked desired amenity. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

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. Self-awareness makes it easier to be selfless.”

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

All I’d done was show him and the rest of the executive team a series of other companies’ ads. Whether it’s in recruiting materials or executive speeches, in advertising or marketing messaging, companies tend to talk in stereotypes, even if they have female-dominated marketing teams. So far, so good.

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. For example, the Russian ruble depreciated from being 37 rubles to the dollar in September 2014, to being close to 70 rubles to the dollar in January 2015. They incentivize the wrong priorities.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

The NewsHour reports that these stats seem slightly more lopsided than other tech companies’, though an analysis by Mother Jones shows a pretty sad demographic profile at the top 10 Silicon Valley firms, particularly among executives. And the more transparency and disclosure the better?

Short-term 8

Short-term Mass Marketing Long-term Diversity 8