Strategy Driven

JUNE 27, 2016

What was it that you said before about financing?” They may ask questions like: (I will use a copy machine as an example because everyone uses one), “How many copies a day can it make?” “How Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. “How long has your company been in business?” Wanting something repeated.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

In Warren Buffett’s 2010 annual letter to shareholders he mentions the advantage Berkshire Hathaway has because it doesn’t focus on short term results: At GEICO, for example, we enthusiastically spent $900 million last year on advertising to obtain policyholders who deliver us no immediate profits.

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Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. They are two sides of the same coin; one cannot exist without the other.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

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. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve 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. For example, Gap Inc. Lead by example when it comes to diversity. And many diversity programs fail.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Take, for example, the hiring process. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. For example, is an MBA from a top business school really necessary to be successful in this position?

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Power Management Diversity CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

It’s not a secret that women’s progress into senior leadership roles has been glacially slow. The increase in women’s leadership was most visible in France, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden, which all saw increases of at least 10 percentage points. That hasn’t happened. Methodology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. Changes at the surface create small, local differences. We need to be more like Oracle.

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Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. For example, a study of 133 factory teams found that higher levels of interpersonal sensitivity, curiosity, and emotional stability resulted in more-cohesive teams and increased prosocial behavior among team members. Kevin Kniffin.

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Skills Team Cooper Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. 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.

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CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

The 2016 U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. Chevron is another example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. We see this in our research at Columbia University and have identified many examples where CEOs benefit their businesses by partnering across sectors with public officials, nonprofit managers, and community members.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S. ” Meanwhile, the company recruited non-scientist talent from finance, consulting, tech, academia, and political campaigns and inserted them into drug-development roles.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Furthermore, mega-cities seem to be natural hotbeds for growth: as just one example, London , with around 10 million people, currently has a 50% greater incidence of high growth firms compared to other UK regions, and a quarter of the high growth firms in the nation overall. strategic hires). 4 – Building local capacity and getting out.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication. Community and patient engagement focused on social needs.

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Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life. Financial performance.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Building and Running the “Farmacy” Since its inception in 2016, this initiative has been a purposeful and iterative learning endeavor. Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP).

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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. There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. For example, Axios reported that 72.4% Who gets H-1Bs?

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