Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

There's been lots of debate over how central banks should react to bubbles. It's okay for you if asset prices stop rising, but if they fall dramatically — or if the market for them simply stops functioning — you're in big trouble. But what about at the level of the corporation? This is clearly a risky way to do business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

I also argued that capital markets regulators are much more lackadaisical about protecting the game that has been entrusted to them — and they should learn a lesson from the NFL before their game is irreparably damaged. This is why the contrast between the capital markets reaction and the NFL reaction is both so stark and so sad.

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Hammer Rogers Letter Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Consider, first, rampant excesses in a most unlikely part of the financial scene — the market for microcredits to the world's poorest people. But it has also become clear that the rapid growth of microcredit. has made the loans much less effective.". Leave it to Warren Buffet to offer a thoughtful perspective.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Vividly described by Roger Martin in “ The Innovation Catalysts, ” this process requires as much grit and persistence as systems thinking, bringing to mind Schrage’s warning that even systematically generated design cultures are hard to pull off.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. This shift to financial-markets-based compensation had some of the promised impact — CEOs did become less risk-averse (bureaucrat-like) in their decision-making. So paying bank CEOs mostly in stock is a recipe for a financial crisis.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

As Joan Lewis, former P&G Global Officer and SVP of Consumer and Market Knowledge says, “Hundreds or thousands of projects are good ideas but if we don’t prune the list, they will strangle each other like weeds in a garden.”. For example, a major bank tried to do a technological transition of their system without sufficient pre-testing.

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After Action Review Rogers Contingency Plans Leadership 50

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.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

FOX News Chairman Roger Ailes was reported to have received an exit package worth $40 million after being ousted from his job amid sexual harassment claims. The junk bond market made financing large takeovers possible and even the biggest among the Fortune 500 firms were no longer safe from a forced acquisition.

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Golden Parachute Hostile Takeover Airlines Execution 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. billion of India’s citizens to voting, banking, government assistance, healthcare, recordkeeping, and more. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

Duncan: In one of your essays titled “You Get What You Expect” you write about Roger Bannister, the great runner who proved that a four-minute mile is possible. Sonnenberg: Did you ever notice that when you’re in the market for a new car, you seem to notice car ads more than usual? Everything you learn is like money in the bank.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Blog Morale 81

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Each branch makes its own loan decisions, sets its own pricing on loans and deposits, controls its own marketing budget, runs its own website (on a shared platform), and serves all customer segments — from individuals to multinationals — within its catchment area. ” Three trillion dollars represents 17% of U.S.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Can you share specific examples of how these capabilities have measurably impacted market value? Over the last four decades, drivers of market value have shifted significantly. In the late 1970s 95% of market value was derived from earnings. Fast forward to the 2020s, and earnings now account for only 15 to 20% of market value.

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