Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Traditional “bonds” between employees and organizations have changed. Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm. The company’s job was to “get the supplier down” to the lowest possible price to increase margins and profitability. Partnering with managers.

Short-term 107

Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Clearly and powerfully define your company's contribution to society -- which must be at the heart of the company's purpose, not a side operation. It means that companies that break their bond of trust with society stand to lose out significantly. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

The Barron's article mentioned that a 690 million euro convertible bond sale in February had bought Amazon some more time (the list was based on 1999 year-end data) — but that the company would still run out of cash in 21 months. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. In Morten T.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

When Shanghai Chaori Solar Energy, a Chinese solar cell-maker and power-generator, missed an interest payment on its bonds in February 2014, the Chinese government didn’t intervene. Housing prices fell by around 60% over the next two years, and many developers went broke. Clearly, China is having its “Dubai moments.”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Bond Banking Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Last week, LDK Solar , a struggling Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers and panels, announced that it had missed $24 million in bond payments. This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

50 percent of the companies foresee near-term risks (1 to 5 years), with 39 percent currently experiencing impacts such as disruption to operations from drought or flooding, declining water quality, and increases in water prices. The Ripple Effect : Water Risk in the Municipal Bond Market (Ceres). Water Futures (SAB Miller).

Price 15

Price Report Resources Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. Contrary to what many economists then believed, Friedman argued that, higher inflation does not reduce unemployment, and that the best monetary policy was one that kept prices stable. In 2011, U.S. Imports surged.

GDP 9

GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

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. Others work in food manufacturing facilities while others operate an enormous trucking fleet. The lesson is two-fold.

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Insurance Incentives Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

To make such requests, you're going to need to have built a hell of a personal bond. For folks who are looking for operational principles, take these from Lisa Gansky's fabulous book, The Mesh. Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. They are the whole point of business."

Innovation 15

Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

When it comes to specialist operations, experience is key, so he was going to visit each of them and then make a decision. However, when I spoke to him again, he had just decided where he was going to have the operation: in the hospital in his hometown in Spain. Good leaders don’t let their emotional bonds cloud their judgment.

Gordon 8

Gordon Strategy Decisionmaking Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. This dashboard provided simple guidelines on flight capacity, corresponding pricing, and competitor options.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Make your investments while operating in autopilot mode with Wealth Simple and you can always keep track of your investments made versus profits earned. Parents may purchase stocks and bonds for their minor children, turning them over when they mature. Having the Ability to See Consistent Returns. Starting from Where You Currently Are.

Goal 71

Goal Benchmarking Due Diligence Marketing 71

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.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Some of the San Francisco-based groups, for example, bonded via discussions about the Golden State Warriors basketball team and opportunities to be more active in the city. This group dynamic cultivates a social network that offers real-time feedback, support, and accountability.

Health Care 12

Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

The recent suit against Goldman Sachs for running aluminum ingots back and forth among warehouses, inflating the price to OEMs and thus consumers, is a stark example. It should be drawn as a question of growth strategy and economic policy, ensuring that Western companies retain their license to operate in the future global economy.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Sixth, a coworker quits, realizing that she''d rather be closer to her real family — that is, to people who are important to her, realizing she''ll never have that kind of bond with the people she sits with every day. Work beckons; Colin becomes a $40,000 salary surplus in the budget. So why is Hsieh making this move?

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Budgeting Restructuring PR 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

They identify companies that they think could be worth a lot more than their share price indicates, and push for changes. He started developing his famous case against bond insurer MBIA in 2002, and had to wait till 2009 for it to pay off. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

The kind of bonding that I inadvertently experienced may be more frequent these days as the byproduct of a corporate mindset reshaped by Great Recession-driven austerity practices — among them requiring employees to share rooms. It Can Be Good for Business.

Hotels 9

Hotels Conference Policies Travel 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. The creator fleshes out his or her proposal in an "Expect-Us," rather than a prospectus, assigns it a ticker symbol, and floats it at a starting price of $10. The Newport, R.I.-based

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Webvan promised to deliver the best quality groceries at the cheapest price by the click of a button. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds. The traditional plan-then-do model treats the value of any strategy like a bond.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. SFO’s facility, the 3,146-seat War Memorial Opera House, was funded by a voter-approved municipal bond in 1927.

Audience 8

Audience Brainstorming Project Class 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Operating with transparency used to be a luxury versus a necessity but, now, it’s quite mandatory. Every industry faces new competition on a daily basis and customers are understandably price sensitive, often buying from whoever has the best sale or perks. Transparency. This principle can be applied in every business.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Loyalty Airlines Advertising 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. In bond trading, there is no relationship, bond prices today have little to do with bond prices tomorrow, and I could completely change my positions overnight. It is among the most transactional of all businesses.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

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. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. utility sector. Seeing the writing on the wall, German utility E.On

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

American corporations operated in a very different environment in the postwar period. This, along with the widespread depressed stock market prices, created a fertile environment for acquisitions. A form of low-grade debt known as "junk bonds" provided a new source of funds. Organized labor was strong in the private sector.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The raw wafer for an iPhone chip might have been processed in Texas before it was shipped to a factory in Taiwan to be diced into individual chips and tested, then wire bonded into a package before going to a parts distribution center, before finally making it to that assembly line in Zhengzhou, China. bound panels to Malaysia.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

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. This appeals to investors who can use the credit to offset a tax obligation; they get 100% of the financial asset for 20% of the price.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8