Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. Rajamannar involved finance early. To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2015

This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Sema, a finance manager at the Dutch-British financial services consultancy Dirksen-Hall, had recently transferred from its Ankara office to its headquarters, in Amsterdam. . ‘Help!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

(Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The Power of the Power Bar. Terranola is the company behind those granola bar machines you see on every kitchen counter nowadays.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

” Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. . “These things are nothing more than glorified sales pitches,” she whispered to him. “Stop acting like a teenager,” he joked.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. Workplace demographics paint a startling picture: Almost 40 percent of the U.S. workforce is between 45 and 64. Petersburg, Florida.

How To 72

How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references. Engage the finance organization. Finance was on board at the company in our story. The system must be reviewed and validated by finance.

Process 14

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Don’t: Discount the power of making small changes to your routine and environment. Case Study #1: Make small adjustments to your environment, and look for ways to enhance your job description. . ” Case Study #2: Look for meaning outside of the traditional professional realm — and be willing to take a risk.

Career 14

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

” At the heart of this work is the concern that algorithms are often opaque, biased, and unaccountable tools being wielded in the interests of institutional power. This is not an argument for algorithmic absolutism or blind faith in the power of statistics. So how worried should we be about the modern ascendance of algorithms?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. In Derek’s view, the subsidiaries already had far too much power. We have to take back control at the top—not give the subsidiaries more power.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Throughout his childhood, Hassani loved to create toys, some of which were wind-powered and would blow across the desert near his home. Years later, this memory would return to him and suggest a solution : a wind-powered toy to clear land mines. Hassani resolved at a very young age to somehow help eradicate these evil contraptions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

On the contrary, they may become the most powerful tools yet developed to raise the productivity of high-skill knowledge workers — the kind of workers who help drive innovation and growth, and who are going to be in increasingly short supply.

Media 15

Media Productivity Products Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

As impact investing tries to make the move from philanthropic thought experiment to powerful instrument for global change, a vital demographic and financial reality is emerging — it’s going to be millennial investors (particularly those inheriting or building significant private wealth) who make or break it.

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Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them. Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

And this isn’t for lack of ambition among them: Black women are even more likely to aspire to hold a powerful position with a prestigious title than white women. To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The venture’s finances become more complex, and the CEO needs to depend on finance executives and accountants. When the case study on Twitter is eventually written, it will likely be less about personal drama and more about the leadership transitions necessary for startup success. Sound like anyone you know?

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Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Case studies on companies that have failed to invest in IT innovations, and the resulting business impacts--usually disastrous--abound.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

While leaders in most corporate functions naturally try to absorb and demonstrate power, HR diffuses responsibility toward its internal customers because of some major misunderstandings. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. I doubt it. I doubt it.

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

With an equally powerful advocacy value proposition. This can be a powerful win-win that provides customers with verification, a learning tool, and a basis for building best practices, while providing a case study or success story for you. So, how do you tap the advocacy potential of an ambitious, well-connected CXO?

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Reference CIO PR Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

” Remember that getting too involved in their power dynamics could be damaging to your career. Case Study #1: Consider the broader consequences of keeping a boss’s secret. ” Case Study #2: Avoid picking sides if you can help it. Rothbard agrees: “Try to be neutral.”

Consensus 8

Consensus Case Study Long-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Case Study #1: The power of enthusiastic peers. Though she liked the stability of her role as head of communications for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), which finances private-sector ventures in developing countries, she could feel her interest in her role beginning to wane.

How To 8

How To Mentor Case Study Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

How to Negotiate with Someone More Powerful than You. Case study #1: Pausing to inquire. The winning company would not only design and install the project, but also finance it and own it for 20 years, selling power to the residents at a discounted rate. ” Case study #2: The power of the personal.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

If the finance person frets about keeping expenses under control, discuss expense numbers,” says Sheen. “If The real power of his presentation, she says, was in the strength of his narrative. Case study #1: Build buy-in ahead of time. Case study #2: Impress with unique visuals. Have an elevator pitch ready.

IPO 9

IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Trouble Letting Go Companies Deal With Employees Who Refuse to Take Time Off by Requiring Vacations, Paying Them to Go Wall Street Journal I like FullContact''s approach to getting employees to take vacation: The Denver-based contact-management company offers workers $7,500 a year to help finance their vacations.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Class Sports Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

“You need to be seen as credible” when you’re talking about the financial implications of your initiative to the finance group, for instance. ” If you don’t have the power to allocate budget to a pilot, you need to sell harder to those who do. ” Ashford concurs. . “I really try not to, though.

Project 8

Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

“When you’re on your own freelancing for a big company, there is a fundamental power imbalance,” says Caitlin Pearce, director of advocacy and member engagement there. Another tip: “Make sure you have the name and contact details of the person in finance with whom you’ll be dealing with,” says Pearce.

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Long-term Follow-up Project Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. Case Study #1: Test the waters before speaking up.

Ethics 8

Ethics How To Morale Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Sarah, your intellect is very powerful,” he continued. It was high time, she thought, that J.P. sprang to her defense. What exactly is Sid doing wrong?” Betsy asked.

Case Study 9

Case Study Real Estate CFO Letter 9

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

What made this presentation so powerful was it was more than just an act put on for the benefit of the attendees, it was completely authentic and the audience knew it. Let me be clear – don’t underestimate the power of a positive attitude. The beautiful thing about your story is it makes for a wonderful case study.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Despite our belief in the power of impact investing and the need for capital to scale, most social entrepreneurs should not seek this type of capital unless four fundamental conditions are met: 1. The answer is almost always "No". Your business model is stable.

Entrepreneur 8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Social Media Influence [.]

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