Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

In 2006, Khan launched Khan Academy to deliver “a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” How did Sal Khan finance his venture? First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit. Cohen and his colleagues created a bond, backed by private investors.

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Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Google is famous for its over-the-top perks , which include lunches made by a professional chef , biweekly chair massages, yoga classes, and haircuts. Twitter employees enjoy three catered meals per day, on-site acupuncture, and improv classes. Men were more likely than women to value team-bonding events, retreats, and free food.

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Insurance Policies Survey Bond 15

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

However CEOs that implement a well thought out and clearly articulated vision, create a sense of stability and a bond of trust amongst the ranks. I believe that if you want to build and sustain a truly world-class team, everyone needs a voice – but not everyone’s voice is equal.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Chris Brady

JULY 11, 2010

Light is the load of tight friendships, deep bonds, and heart-felt trust. " | Main | Siena by Car - "You Idiot" » July 11, 2010 Leaders Travel Light I learned it the hard way, really, by dragging bulky bags through crowded bus terminals, onto packed trains, and up stairs at a five-hundred year-old hotel.

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Travel Hotels Commitment Blog 118

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

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Bond Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

” 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. If the middle-class benefits from improving economic conditions and better access to cash, consumer demand is likely to increase.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

and the transfer of business risk from "too big to fail" institutions to taxpayers, leading to a "heads I win, tails you lose" relationship between the finance and the rest of the economy. Recent scrutiny of the U.S. The debate has been about enforcement and regulation of the industry. Both valid points, but both miss the crucial issue.

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How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

“It’s enabled me to have a bond with my daughter now that’s really amazing,” he said. “The culture in the bank’s accounting and finance team has changed totally since I got here,” she said. “I don’t think you have to work like a crazy person to get ahead.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

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. Buybacks are a major cause of U.S.

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Two, leadership rounds are an important means of exposing non-medical leaders in finance, operations, and other areas of the hospitals to the front lines of patient care. Conveying the same message through a well-told story can be powerful and inspirational.

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Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. That bonding role extends to other aspects of the business as well, such as delivering on products and services.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Chris Brady

AUGUST 1, 2010

  But there is something special aboutgetting to know someone, learning their background, building a bond.   Architecture strikes me the same way.   At La Contea (meaning, ‘The Countryside’), our villa perched high on the side of a Tuscanhill quite near the Umbrian border, we had the collision of both.

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Travel Bond Letter Blog 102

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. It's an essential primer on the history and current state of finance.

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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. It's an essential primer on the history and current state of finance.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. But there are these two classes of explanations for why it didn’t work.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs. There is no right or wrong impact class—what matters is identifying preferences.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

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. I disagree with this priority.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Your Voice of Encouragement

JUNE 22, 2015

The Dumb Blonde Experiment This experiment was for a class I was taking to deepen my executive coaching skills. Each member of the class got assigned the task to play the opposite of their usual persona (how we show up in front of others). If you need to be more daring, embrace your inner James Bond 007. Here’s how it worked.

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Situational Leadership Leadership Executive Coaching Class 40

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Extends certain middle class incentives and credits such as the Earned Income Credit and Coverdell Education Savings credit. Besides tax-deferral, consider planning strategies that provide you with tax-free income in retirement, such as municipal bonds or Roth IRAs. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. Yes, he was facing labor strife, but the strategy was also about creating a thriving middle class filled with people who could afford to buy his cars. Financing the clean economy. utility sector. In the U.S., A century later, Gap Inc.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

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Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8