Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Better Data Can Help Insurers More Accurately Price Climate Risk. Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets. Catastrophe bonds are high-yield bonds, sponsored by local governments and issued by reinsurance companies, that do not pay out in the event of a catastrophe.

Insurance 10

Insurance Real Estate Industry Bond 10

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

I support cause related marketing and have advised many corporations on setting up such programs. I say it is not, and I’m an expert on cause-related marketing. He was simply rationalizing a corporate marketing initiative. Do not run your “foundation” out of a corporate marketing department. He was not listening.

Franchising 74

Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 74

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Diversify your holdings across stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, and other alternatives to reduce your risk exposure to any single asset class. Index funds offer diversified, low-cost exposure to stock markets, while speculative, highly volatile assets like cryptocurrencies and penny stocks should be avoided.

Tips 106

Tips Discount Budgeting Real Estate 106

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

Through the financial meltdown in 2008, I still felt sick staring at my screens, but I appreciated that we bonded over how to manage through the market implosion rather than point fingers at each other (although I confess, that still happened occasionally – we’re only human). Collaboration Decision making Risk management'

Tversky 8

Tversky Kahneman Hedge Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Rather than compare the benefits of a wide set of possible investments — like other individual stocks, or bonds, or index and other exchange traded funds — people selected among the much smaller set of highly familiar investment choices. Creating and marketing a tablet is quite expensive. But was that so?

IPO 10

IPO Bond Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” 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.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

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. Having high ratings from S&P, Moody's, and Fisk thus means a bigger market and lower prices for your debt. The United States and Moody's Bond Rating Service." But what job is that, exactly?

Credit Rating 13

Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The next phase in restoring public credibility to Tylenol was the reintroduction of new product to the shelves, done in such a way as to restore consumer confidence and increase market share. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

Crisis 71

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Portfolio management is conventionally associated with financial strategies: Instead of putting all of your money in one place, you spread it around and create a diverse portfolio of different types of investments — stocks, bonds, small-cap, large-cap, domestic, international, etc.

Management 8

Management Core Competence Project Bond 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

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Public attitudes toward further government intervention are hostile across Europe; and market sentiment in banks has been knocked following the crisis, pushing stock prices down, with the obvious consequence that yields required by creditors to hold bank debt must go up. Iceland, Ireland). This complexity makes any decision very difficult.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Short-term Long-term 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