Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The other extreme is, “I have no intentions but look I’ve created jobs, ex post ,” and that is the post-rationalization of an economics-only business model. To us, the key about intentionality is that it must focus on a business model, a business plan upfront, with both economic and social impact.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

All of this change will require new technologies that enable faster, more secure ways for machines to share and process data. The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Skip Prichard

APRIL 7, 2024

In The Metaverse Workplace Revolution: A Path to Greater Profitability, a Stronger Culture, and Industry Disruption , published by Fast Company Press, Jason Gesing shares his vision of a future where the Metaverse is not just an option, but a necessity for business innovation. Strategies?

Bond 87

Bond Innovation Diversity Operations 87

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

One of the first books I read upon graduating college, Liar's Poker is acclaimed author Michael Lewis' first book — a captivating story about his short-lived postcollegiate career as a bond salesman in the 1980s. Richard Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built.

Books 22

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

One of the first books I read upon graduating college, Liar's Poker is acclaimed author Michael Lewis' first book — a captivating story about his short-lived postcollegiate career as a bond salesman in the 1980s. Richard Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built.

Books 19

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There is mounting evidence that buybacks bear substantial blame for the extreme concentration of income at the very top and the disappearance of middle-class jobs in the United States over the past quarter century — a topic I discussed in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Social innovation. Employee incentives.

EPS 12

EPS Innovation Incentives Supply Chain 12

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When the marketplace began to see through the spin and the vapor, all the fun and games in the world couldn’t save a flawed business model…The fun was over and the culture ceased to exist. Many a company has put so much emphasis on culture that culture simply became their business as opposed to strengthening their business.

Blog 366

Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. Distributed generation (meaning solar panels on my roof) is a direct threat to the business models of the large power plants that utilities know best.

Chemicals 14

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

Over the coming months and years, it will become even less acceptable — to employees, customers, and investors — for business people to stick their heads in the increasingly hot sand on this issue. Business leaders who want to take action and show their investors and customers that they “get it” should step forward now.

Crisis 8

Crisis Report Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8