Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Just over 10 years ago, French bank BNP Paribas froze U.S. The market panicked. There was a run on British bank Northern Rock. Over the next year, many banks fell. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. We expect investment banks to embark on an even more fundamental makeover during the next decade.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Instill discipline. About the Author.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank. And in the U.S.,

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. The SME deck is more practice-based, including steps and tools to apply right away.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. A Different Approach.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." This is not even a marketing partnership.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. In fact, advanced payments may be just the kind of proof that banks or equity investors need to open their pocket books.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

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.). As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

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. Generally speaking, entrepreneurs may need to rethink their risks to improve the chances that their innovations succeed.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Some large European banks have announced imminent layoffs. Deutsche Bank’s retail unit is accelerating thousands of job cuts at its German head offices. US banks except Wells Fargo have not announced any cuts. Salesforce.com plans to cut 1,000 jobs, sources said, while Microsoft cut fewer than 1,000 jobs.

Industry 75

Industry Airlines Retail Banking 75

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

The options for getting work done — beyond regular full-time employment — are increasing and, in a world of constant change, we should be asking not simply whether a worker should be categorized as an employee or a contractor but whether regular full-time employment is really the only way to deliver high pay and marketable skills.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Globalization Health Care Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Among the growing perplexed population is Mark Barnes (not his real name), vice president of a marketing company. In the work on diversity and innovation we have conducted over recent years, we came to understand some of the keys of tribal thinking, and how some companies are successfully leveraging it.

Globalization 9

Globalization Consultative Learning-by-Doing Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. Imagine you're a bank approached for a loan by an employee of AIG. Gerstner, Jr. showed the world that elephants can dance by turning around IBM, a mammoth if ever there was one.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way. They don’t seek to assess how well an innovation works; they try to measure how well that innovation works for us.

KPI 9

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9