The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Innovation involves trying out new things, making improvements, and seeing what works in the market. The study looked at data from big companies in the S&P 1500 list from 1992 to 2016. One reason might be that CFOs don’t often become CEOs later in their careers, so they might not have big long-term goals.
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Below I’ve listed a few stakeholders and corresponding Core Ideas to pitch to them regarding the European market entry: VP of Sales: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in sales.”. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.
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Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC. Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets.
Tanveer Naseer
JULY 12, 2016
The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. These disasters have affected popular attitudes toward our entire system of free market capitalism. Their fatal lack of humility damaged the public’s trust in business leaders in general. All rights reserved.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 28, 2018
By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 28, 2018
With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. Data-Driven Marketing. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. The situation was untenable.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 30, 2017
Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. It was the pioneer in social networking, arguably one of the highest-potential markets ever. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor.
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