Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Glean These 19 Ideas & Tips to Skyrocket Your Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Victoria Greene , an ecommerce brand marketing consultant, freelance writer, and small business owner with a pulse on the future of online selling. Also, see if the market looks like it's trending in the right direction for your idea.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

News of the United Kingdom’s vote to Leave the European Union shook financial markets Friday, and signalled the start of potentially years of economic uncertainty for Europe. The Bank of England said essentially ‘We planned for this’ and that £250 billion pounds are available to backstop the banks.

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Banking Short-term Long-term Policies 9

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? You can, however, embrace uncertainty by adjusting your views as new information becomes available. Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 306

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Years of economic mismanagement.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

presidential election and amid continued economic uncertainty around the globe. We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. Empathy has never been in more explicit demand from corporate leaders — particularly after a divisive U.S.

Company 8

Company Ethics Automotive Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Roosevelt faced one of the most significant leadership challenges in U.S. and then the entire global market into a downward spiral. The nation was gripped in a panic that had people running to the banks to pull out their savings. Entering office on March 4, 1933, Franklin D. history: the Great Depression. How did he do it?

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Management Banking Crisis Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The changes that India struggled to cope with, such as slowing domestic growth, increasing globalization, and an uncertain political and regulatory environment, describe global markets today. No one has a perfect model for managing this level of uncertainty. Decisive leadership characterized all the firms that emerged as winners.

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Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Some 15 years ago my colleague Sumantra Ghoshal and I wrote business cases on three companies that were then leaders in their sectors: BP, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Nokia. So yes, be authentic – but don’t break the mold so completely that others need to spend energy figuring out how to engage with your leadership.

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Linda once worked with someone in a global investment bank who took over a trading desk where he managed a group of experienced traders. The traders, who knew he lacked experience in many of the foreign markets where they were active, resisted his directions and demanded to know his rationale.

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Management Resistance Uncertainty Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Involve your head of marketing and human resources early. ” Marvin Chow, VP of Global Marketing at Google, emphasizes how important it is to create a vision and then build and show momentum. Amy Friedlander-Hoffman, Head of Experiential Marketing at Uber, believes it is essential to keep “coming back to the core.”

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Crisis Supply Chain Brand Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

My colleagues and I at Bain & Company have been tracking this for forty years, and we have never seen companies losing their leadership positions as quickly as they are today. A list of the top 20 banks today contains only seven that were on the list a decade ago. Markets change; technology evolves. And for telecom.

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Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

But a big and growing challenge is emerging: Once your tech teams have begun to master these new ways of working — improving time to market, continuous learning, responsiveness, and collaboration — they often find that the pace of work they desire is substantially hindered by the lack of agility in HR. Related Video.

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Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

An alternative perspective on strategy and execution — one that we argue is more in tune with the nature of value creation in a world marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) — conceives of strategy as a hypothesis rather than a plan. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Investors grapple daily in an effort to figure out how to value companies whose accounting assets — things like land, capital, products, and licenses — don't adequately express their true market value. Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street.

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Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Greece offered a tantalizing opportunity to socially minded critics to condemn the approach taken by the euro group under Germany’s leadership. Rather, it is that its Byzantine regulations and institutional uncertainties discourage investments and reduce competitive pressures. Greece’s main problem isn’t its currency.

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Crisis Policies Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And so what I see here is China, vastly bigger than the Philippines and Vietnam, with not only more military capacity, but much more economic capacity and influence over those markets, seeing if they can improve their situation on the ground, and not minding so much if the cost is that a couple of noses get bloodied. China’s number one.”

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Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve Guest experts from other parts of the business, from legal to marketing, were invited to visit when needed.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The CEO of a large, global bank once told me: “It is very easy for someone in my position to be very busy all the time. Companies often engage in new activities – customers, markets, products, and business models – serendipitously, in response to external events and lucky breaks. Stuff happens.

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Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

HBR: Most of us are used to hearing about how bad we are at making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, and how our intuitions often lead us astray. By teaching people how to deal with uncertainty, do you mean taking statistics class, studying decision theory? But most of our problems are about uncertainty.

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

As the lions roar from Kenya to Ghana, and cheetahs from South Africa to Mali, young Africans are unleashing their entrepreneurial energy and most governments are offering stronger leadership, a more business-friendly economy, and less corruption. But, none of this should keep businesses from expanding into African markets.

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Globalization Banking Class Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The World Bank estimates that $158 trillion worth of assets are at risk from increased natural disasters. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal. For some, it’s about the commercial opportunity to appeal to a new or growing market of rights-focused consumers. Renewables Kept Growing and Getting Cheaper.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Each year, FSG evaluates more than 100 scenarios that could disrupt our economic forecasts for 73 countries.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8