The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. Many jurisdictions around the world are declaring states of emergency, closing their borders, and restricting travel. Face tough issues head-on.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It is useful to distinction between three motivations for creating partnerships: Optimization and economy of scale, Reduction of risk and uncertainty, Acquisition of particular resources and activities) Cost Structure – The business model elements result in the cost structure. (It

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

But our interviews with board members and CEOs in the banking industry—and decades of research on experts and teams—point to three factors that can compromise the effectiveness of expert-dominated boards, at least in some circumstances. Common sense might suggest that the more experts, the better.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Banking Uncertainty Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Ever since the forced bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered the financial crisis 10 years ago, regulators, risk managers, and central bankers around the globe have focused on shoring up banks’ ability to withstand financial shocks. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images.

Crisis 11

Crisis Banking System Cooper 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

percentage points, has likely ushered in a protracted phase of uncertainty for the UK, EU, and global economies. Judging by our interactions with CEOs around the world to date, some of their burning questions are: What are the elements of uncertainty created by Brexit? The Leave campaign’s victory, with a margin of 3.8

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions.

Policies 9

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

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.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

banks) have ballooned from about $30 billion to around $1.5 Why is all that money sitting at the Fed earning a meager 0.25% nominal interest when those same banks could make a lot more than that by lending it out? The answer is simple: uncertainty about the future. The banks want QE3 as a short-term boost, but will they get it?

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Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political activities. Moreover, European banks are in a difficult position. So is there hope after the latest EU summit? It is easy to take a grim view.

Crisis 15

Crisis Consensus Banking Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Our data include about 950 businesses. Challenge risk financing conventions.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. Facilitate Investments. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g., Arguments Against Strategic Cash.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

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.”

Crisis 13

Crisis Supply Chain Brand Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The concept seems appealing — incremental investment enters the "social impact" market in the form of below-market loans or equity, incenting mission-driven organizations to become self-sustaining. So we offer farmers what we call a "market bundle": seed and fertilizer on credit, training, and market facilitation.

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Bottom-up Franchising Operations Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. automobile industry. The China-Sparked Crisis. For example , U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. We call this approach “strategy as learning,” which contrasts sharply with the view of strategy as a stable, analytically rigorous plan for execution in the market.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

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. Leading up to Roosevelt’s inauguration there was yet another run on the banks in February 1933, further eroding the financial system.

Management 8

Management Banking Crisis Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms. Far from Silicon Valley, Shanghai, or Singapore, a German company, Rocket Internet, has been busy launching e-commerce start-ups across a wide range of emerging and frontier markets. Stall Out countries are also aging.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Related Video.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

A list of the top 20 banks today contains only seven that were on the list a decade ago. Repeatability was based on a three-year Bain & Company study of enduring profit and relative competitive ability to adapt in a world of increasing velocity and uncertainty. Markets change; technology evolves. And for telecom.

Creativity 14

Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. Managing uncertainty Managing yourself' This was no mere rhetorical device.

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Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 9

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. Keep moving!

Succession 316

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

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. The stock market is down 25%.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In regions in turmoil, this can be the difference between expanding operations and closing shop.

Franchising 8

Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

And this healthy growth is despite the uncertainty following the Arab Spring. Over the next decade, the world will add a billion new middle-class consumers in emerging markets, and the MENA region will have 60 million of these new shoppers. It's also getting easier to do business across the region.

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Class Globalization Survey Cooper 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

If you''re setting out to do so, you''ll need to confront uncertainty about how to get the most value from the investment and carefully consider what you''re setting out to achieve. You should understand the solution''s cultural impact, its technological and operational feasibility, and its viability in your business.

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Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. Before I knew it I was presenting the ideas in my book to Steve Black, who at the time headed up investment banking at JP Morgan Chase. The desperate-to-prove-himself banker found a chart that showed how the housing market was overpriced. She was right. Lucky thing, that.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

After a surprising parliamentary election result, uncertainty surrounds how the UK will handle the Brexit negotiations. Sociopolitical forces are taking new prominence in market strategy. Identify regularity amid persistent uncertainty. need to be exploited, sidestepped, or somehow countered to make the strategy work.

Contingency Plans 8

Contingency Plans Planning Company Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. Decision-Making Will Be Held Hostage to Uncertainty. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. 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.

Energy 8

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. Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It is the second smallest market in Latin America — a sharp difference compared with only a few years ago, when it used to compete with markets such as Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as the third largest market in the region, after Brazil and Mexico. Venezuela represented only 1% of total revenues.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8