Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

In olden times, the bond raters at S&P and Moody's were financial advice providers, sort of like Morningstar is today. Starting in the 1970s, though, the business model shifted. Having high ratings from S&P, Moody's, and Fisk thus means a bigger market and lower prices for your debt. But what job is that, exactly?

Credit Rating 13

Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market. The ethereum smart contract platform now has a market cap of around a billion dollars , with hundreds of projects headed toward the market.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

The next best action system at Morgan Stanley, then, is focused on three separate objectives — only one of which is common in the robo-adviser market. The Morgan Stanley system can offer those if the client prefers them, but can also present individual stocks or bonds based on the firm’s research.

System 8

System Short-term Industry Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. You achieve excellence not through James Bond–style gadgetry but through relentlessly executing on your fundamental skills. ” The business of publishing is much more than marrying content and distribution. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Audience Content Brand 8

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 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Innovation communities had been used by Best Buy to grow its portion of the women’s consumer electronics market by $4.4b Their expectation was to spend about a day a week for the next six months on the identification, design, and testing of a business model innovation. in less than five years.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

As more is communicated, more emotions shared, more passions pursued in this much more vivid medium, we're likely to see stronger bonds between brands, consumers, networks and causes. So business is welcoming this, right? In fact their business model relies on its reputation engine.

Brand 14

Brand Video Technology Tools 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. ’ ” The losers.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

As a result, some governments and private foundations have introduced social impact bonds to provide the necessary working capital. Typically, the results are defined after conducting market research and engaging with customers. Making PbR Work. ” Too much subjectivity and sensitivity can scupper the scheme.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. For example, we recently hired an expert from the high-end watch industry to help us develop a program for customers in emerging markets.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

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. Any young person aspiring to business leadership should understand the financial world we live in.

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. Any young person aspiring to business leadership should understand the financial world we live in.

Books 17

Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

While social stuff is often associated with marketing or customer service, social can affect every part of the business model , including how we organize. As the definition of and market for the latest thinking evolves, SU is in a unique position to fluidly respond. Customer satisfaction didn't decline. Is that scary?

Participative 15

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The project—Park 007—was a James Bond–themed amusement park with artificial ski slopes, cliffs for bungee jumping, roller-coaster rides, indoor water sports, casinos, cinemas, and two five-star hotels. Rogier has too, which is why, frankly, his position on this stuns me.” Now Vera was getting worked up.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market. Surprisingly, big inroads in the physician office-management market are being made by non-traditional players, such as Best Buy’s Geek Squad.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. Second, Uber and Netflix appealed to a younger superconsumer before they entered the category, which caught the market leaders flat-footed.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 10

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 305

Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 305

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

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. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. It’s hard out there if you’re a utility. utility sector. Tough choices.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

To create a system that is more democratic, responsible, and fair, they run an accelerator program that supports new business models that could bring diversity to the financial system. Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above.

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8