Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Operating with transparency used to be a luxury versus a necessity but, now, it’s quite mandatory. Instead, focus on crowdfunding and non-traditional lenders such as Bond Street, Kabbage and Deal Struck. Transparency. A revenue source of that size is simply too big to ignore and not tap into. About the Author.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Loyalty Airlines Advertising 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Interpret the results to management in terms that are easy to understand and support. Provide management with information that justifies their confidence. No business can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Community relations is not ‘insurance’ that can be bought overnight.

Franchising 74

Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 74

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities.

Article 50

Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

A new survey conducted by my team at Fractl found that, after health insurance, employees place the highest value on benefits that are relatively low-cost to employers, such as flexible hours, more paid vacation time, and work-from-home options. But what should a business do if it can’t afford Google-sized benefits?

Insurance 15

Insurance Policies Survey Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

Nobody wants to wind up like Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan Chase, whose cherished legacy has been pickled by what Dimon himself called "egregious mistakes" by an obscure group of bond traders at the firm. Then, you have to be visible and consistent in holding managers accountable. But there's more going on here than cost management.

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Insurance Incentives Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Don''t get us wrong. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.".

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hundreds if not thousands of hospitals have responded to trends such as shorter average hospital stays, fewer surgeries, a shift to outpatient and home care, and reduced reimbursements by consolidating or overhauling their operations and laying off staff. We do that by connecting the front line with management in a continuing dialogue.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Take micro insurance: If I allow a small-hold farmer to insure their crop, it means in the first year they can actually have less volatility around the outcome. They can put more of their assets to work because they don’t need to self-insure. Which in turn means they actually can run bigger farms, pay bigger insurance premiums.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

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. Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. The particular brand of investing that Ackman and a small number of other hedge-fund managers practice is best described as medium-term. I''m not joining in. But he''s doing God''s work.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

” The most common agreement – which I call the “pair bond exchange” – is a legally binding contract under family law. Families are shot through with exchanges, some legally binding contacts, and others so informal or unsuited to judicial enforcement that the law won’t enforce them.

Taylorism 8

Taylorism Taylor Committee COO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Nor do the tools have to be the high-end, James Bond type: Simple tools can help aggregate and analyze information. In one cloud we created from social-media comments about a new CEO in the European insurance industry, the words "restructuring" and "operations" stood out, suggesting what he's planning to do.

Company 8

Company Media Travel Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. When the employee left Gates’s office, his son had insurance coverage. They’re mental images.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 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. Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8