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 How does the manual feed operate?” “Do Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Wanting something repeated.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. Here are eight to note for 2016. Expect to hear more about “glitches” in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. It began as a small direct sales operation, with no plan for national distribution. We need to go no further than the Pet Rock for an example. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

As banks rush to digitize their operations , many have found that closing their local branches can help maintain a high return on an otherwise pricy transformation. European banks, for example, closed over 9,000 branches in 2016, which represents a 4.6% Studies show that women have lower access to capital, for example.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B Companies are both operators and investors. By almost all accounts, companies at the digital frontier such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are investing vast amounts in AI—somewhere between $20 billion and $30 billion alone in 2016.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

.” His concern was that automation of the finance industry would hollow out jobs in that field in the same way that robotics and other technologies have reduced manufacturing employment. Key aspects of the finance industry have already been automated to a substantial degree. According to data from research firm Coalition Ltd.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Denial of service (DoS) attacks : Attacks that overwhelm an organization with malicious traffic, disrupting normal operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Example #2: Breaking into a new industry. Wouldn’t you want her running your department?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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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. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. We need to be more like Oracle.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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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). For example, about one-third of construction workers in the U.S. weeks of earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To date, only small steps have been taken at most health care systems (for example, clarifying the costs of specific tests during the test-ordering process), and new clinical analytics systems that offer better insights into costs and efficiency often aren’t integrated into day-to-day clinical care. The box score.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from healthcare and government to agriculture and finance. To take just one striking example, imagine if there had been a discussion around how to interpret probabilistic models in the run up to the 2016 U.S. Facebook, for example, has its own private cloud.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

For example, the tax office probably has little interest in your school report cards, but may care enormously about the days you spent out of the country as an adult. These immutable document exchange networks are emerging in trade finance, shipping, and insurance, where everyone has a big problem validating the identity of people and assets.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

For example, Ford’s River Rouge plant not only assembled cars but also made its own steel, glass, fabrics, power, and cement on-site. For example, Apple works with at least 200 suppliers and 242 smelters and refineries across the world. Manufacturing used to be highly vertically integrated in the U.S. stock markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. By banding together, firms in an industry can make life harder for free riders who seek to act less responsibly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, Blue Apron rose to become the largest meal kit delivery business in the U.S., Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature. Their revenues grew by over 100% in 2016. that aggregate sales in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One is profits — cryptocurrency investors made some massive returns in 2016, with cryptocurrencies from Blockchain startups Monero and NEM both seeing 2,000% increases in value. For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017.

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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 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Iran presents an important opportunity for multinational companies that operate in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

While still an emerging practice, examples of such partnerships now exist around the world, across sectors and public policy domains. For example, MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines’ Electome Project analyzed massive Twitter activity data sets to improve reporting around the 2016 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In 2016 and 2017, a nursing home and a rehabilitation center from Zorgpartners Midden Holland near Rotterdam also adopted the “team-start” huddle and card game and have seen similar improvements in patient care and staff morale. (One of us, Roel, designed and ran the initiative; the other, Dirk, studied it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point. One high profile example is Walmart’s commitment to source an additional $250 billion in products made, assembled, or grown in the United States. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. Take the idea of a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. and are private sector efforts — Facebook and Google being among the prominent examples. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

For example, in Pittsburgh, the Blue Cross plan (Highmark) decided to fight back against the exorbitant prices the provider UPMC was demanding. One example is California. In 2016 the California exchange saw a modest 4% increase in premiums. by paying higher monthly premiums). UPMC terminated the Highmark contract.

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