Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. On the other hand, work that requires a high degree of imagination, creative analysis, and strategic thinking is harder to automate. Few industries, if any, will be untouched. Knowledge workers will not escape.

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

For example, I know a bank executive who had twenty years of great community banking experience, but no bachelor's degree. When his institution was bought out, no other bank would even consider him for a job. If you are within five years of retirement, it may not make sense. Now with his degree in hand, he is CEO.

Career 8

Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank. Itau perceives the 50% of Brazilian entrepreneurs that are women as a core market, and other members of the Global Banking Alliance for Women think similarly.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

A machine learning-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, WorkFusion – cited in Martin Ford’s new book, Rise of the Robots – breaks high volume, complex data work into discrete tasks and algorithmically assigns the work to appropriate machine and human resources.

Delegation 8

Delegation Supply Chain Merchandising Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

For example, Beth Axelrod, SVP of Human Resources for eBay, works with companies such as Gild, which identifies prospective employees on the hard-science side of marketing analytics by examining the quality of their open code. Still other employers search constantly in stealth mode for the best talent.

Direct Marketing 11

Direct Marketing Talent Management Marketing Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In the 1980s, however, pioneering women began moving into management roles and into frontline business areas, such as investment banking. An analysis that we conducted of disclosures made by 50 American financial services companies revealed that women occupy only 20% of executive committee roles and 22% of board positions.

Chief Executive Officer 8

Chief Executive Officer Committee Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. These challenges disproportionately affected young firms and small firms, according to our analysis. Our data include about 950 businesses.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Better analysis of those insights can improve marketing return on investment (MROI) by 10-20 percent and drive average profit growth of 14 percent. Those steps helped the bank drive up loan volumes, a tangible bump the CMO could point to in discussions with other leaders. Become the organizational “glue” to deliver change. “If

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Imagine you're a bank approached for a loan by an employee of AIG. It's likely that your corporate lending department has spent a great deal of time analyzing AIG, such analysis having bearing on the customer's prospects of getting a bonus, being promoted, or being terminated.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Innovation consultancies tend to have a preferred methodology for working with their clients, such as human centered design (also called ‘design thinking,’ popularized by IDEO, Continuum, Frog Design and others), Lean Start-up, or analytical models used by large management consulting firms.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. The scenario was motivated by the true story of an investment banker whose trading practices ultimately drove his bank to insolvency.

Ethics 15

Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

“That all goes into the bank account of how much value you bring to the organization and plays into promotion decisions, raises, and assignments.” “You may not get credit for the idea or for slaving over the analysis, but hopefully your boss absorbs that you’re an important part of her team.”

How To 8

How To Project Report Case Study 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Branch 3: Accounting, banking, investments, financial planning, benefits programs, real estate, fund raising for non-profit organizations and investor relations services for public companies. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The key common denominator to success isn’t careful planning and comprehensive analysis, but taking fast, cheap, and simple pilots seriously. ” A fintech start-up enjoyed greater success piloting a security offering with a global bank.

KPI 9

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

It’s a question I’ve studied for years, as part of the win-loss analysis research I conduct. From a departmental perspective, engineering would be classified as price immune; marketing and sales as price sensitive; and manufacturing, information technology, human resources, and accounting as price conscious.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8