Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The finance sector as we know it is being transformed by new technology. NEX Optimisation are undergoing an ambitious project to use distributed ledger technology to provide a single source of truth regarding financial transactions. This increased understanding could see a demand for a new type of finance team emerging.

Finance 51

Finance Process Influence Innovation 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

Bond 10

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

According to a 2017 Gallup survey , only one-third of U.S. If you love interacting with others but feel lonely, can you find ways to partner more on projects? What if you’re stuck in a job or a career that you once loved, but your heart isn’t in it anymore? More people fit this profile than you’d think.

Career 15

Career Micromanagement Organizational Behavior Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising.

CFO 8

CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s much more than just an “episodic moment” of frustration or “a particularly gruesome work project” that depletes you, says Gianpiero Petriglieri, associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD. Think about ways to derive satisfaction through your family, faith, or a project or hobby.

Career 14

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Measuring brand exposure.

Process 12

Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

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. We helped the leading NGOs start growth projects for their own constituencies.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” Almost half the respondents cited finances as the main culprit for their tension, while being over-scheduled, choosing the right gifts, and remaining healthy also contributed to people’s holiday woes. According to a 2017 survey by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.,

Stress 11

Stress Team Survey Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

Albert DiBernardo, who is now the head of strategy and development for a major engineering firm, told his board three years ago that he’d be retiring at age 65, and in his performance review last year set a specific departure date: December 31, 2017. that your retirement and new career might entail. Do a skills analysis.

Consultative 8

Consultative How To Career Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. In 2017, they may open up to still larger businesses and to state and local governments. But in 2016 the exchanges will open to companies with 51 to 100 employees.

Insurance 9

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Adding 600 new customers a day, M-KOPA intends to cross the million-unit mark by the end of 2017. After paying for a full year, the system is unlocked and the customer owns the product outright. Thanks for these frugal off-the-grid energy solutions, African households are leapfrogging from candlelight to solar light. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 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. The structured interviews were conducted by me over the phone, Skype, or in person, between February and June 2017.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. PM Images/Getty Images. That was actually an average of a dozen analyst reports.

CRM 12

CRM Project Succession CIO 12

Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2018

For example, checking your emails, updating social media, and working on a project will make you feel like you’re busy, but in reality, you’re getting less done than you would when focusing on one project at a time. Your utility bills can be a big drain on your finances if you don’t shop around for the best deals.

Outsourcing 52

Outsourcing Energy Software Credit Scoring 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 21, 2017

Whether it’s a technical document that is being written by several authors or a project document that has to be edited by several people, Google Docs offers the necessary tools to take advantage of it. You might think about hiring a new employee because it seems like your finance department isn’t being productive enough.

Software 50

Software Asset Management Fixed Assets Document 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2017

Not only can you keep yourself in the know with your finances with some simple data entry, but it’s also going to be automated and can save you the hassle of replicating invoices and calculating your tax. Basecamp’s Campfire organizes your internal communication and projects in a single dedicated place. What does this mean?

Software 50

Software Finance Technology Content 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

since 2013 , and shrank by more than 1,700 in 2017 alone. In Sweden, for example, the portion of approved bank loans to small and medium-size enterprises has decreased by 15% over the last 10 years , and roughly 60% of all ventures in need of external financing have reported difficulties in accessing financing for their investments.

Banking 8

Banking Entrepreneur Finance Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. While the price of Ether has been rising , Bitcoin has dropped 20% to $1,000 dollars from a record $1,290 on March 3, 2017. Yes, in three days, people who invested in Ether doubled their investment.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Then we project those granular patterns forward as if we had such data in the first place.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The resurrection of the EU’s traditional leadership constellation is politically feasible given the election of the Emmanuel Macron as French president in 2017 and the return of the Grand Coalition of German political parties in 2018. There are three conceivable options: A revived Franco German coalition.

Crisis 8

Crisis Politics Policies Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

In 2017 women make up 25% of senior executives in the thousands of companies covered by the survey. And it varies by role, too: Grant Thornton’s survey shows that women are more likely to be the head of a function like HR (23% of CHROs) or finance (19% of CFOs) than CEO (12%), something other studies have also found.

Execution 10

Execution Company Chief Executive Officer Survey 10

HR Digest

JANUARY 22, 2022

Each department may have different job titles, such as project managers, quality assurance managers, finance officers, human resources officials, manufacturing supervisors, etc. On the other hand, the employment of managers fell during 2017–18, after growing steadily since 2012. Managing people. The skills of a Manager.

Management 52

Management Human Resources Strategic Planning Skills 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. On July 1, 2017, all of those seventeen taxes were subsumed into one tax: the GST. A year later, after demonetization, the same system is processing 76 million transactions per month.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Collectively, the D5 nations serve two important purposes for our project: They give us a way to construct a global benchmark that can be used to assess D5 nations and other countries, and they each offer a case study and model for what smart can look like.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10