Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

The financial technologies, or “fintech,” we hear about most often—like Apple Pay, Bitcoin and Crowdfunding—leverage the high penetration rates of bank accounts and credit cards in rich countries. We see two takeaways for CEOs, managers, and impact investors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Every winter, my colleagues and I invite CEOs of some of the world’s largest businesses to join our students at Stanford University. Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. They are asset-light.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise. I don’t mean to downplay culture, as a diverse corporate culture is something to be strived for, but only if quality is not sacrificed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. In other words, even given the pressure CEOs are under, there is room for them to do more or less for their workers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” ” U se of digital technology. ” Health care.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And yet from a review of the research on incentives and motivation, it is wholly unclear why such a large proportion of these executives’ compensation packages would need to be variable. Note: We are not arguing that top managers such as CEOs should be paid less.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Over the last decade, most companies’ digital agendas have focused largely on technology — moving to cloud-based software, modernizing IT infrastructures, adding digital channels, and digitizing business processes. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up. Moreover, it’s not just technology-related jobs that are being reimagined with AI. But Tesla fell far short of that mark, manufacturing just 2,000 vehicles a week.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. The situation improved recently with the accounting recognition of a stock option expense, which clarified to directors that options are not costless, and with the general lengthening of the options' vesting period (incenting long-term orientation).

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Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Building scale for your distinctive capabilities must be at the top of the CEO agenda. You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A retired CEO, Jerry was a sad, aging man who reflected constantly on the emptiness of his life. Their life anchors are their identification with an institution of great power; influence over individuals, policies, finances, and the community; and constant affirmation of their importance as individuals and of their role as leaders.

CEO 8

CEO Execution Policies Power 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). last year, unemployment is slowly decreasing , and public finances are improving faster than anticipated. GDP grew by 1.9%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO. She knew that to have a role in steering strategy, she had to earn the trust of her CEO and board. “To To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. So the HR director has to be my best friend.”.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

That may be a powerful incentive for better behavior. Insurance companies increasingly use clever technologies to segment their customers. Of course, as anyone who''s applied for a loan or credit card well knows, rating customers is an integral part of global finance. That should make you at least a little self-conscious.

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Media Hotels Reputation Price 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up. Contractors paid based on their costs, with little incentive to save, increased them even more. Working against NASA as well was a heritage of exploration: unique space missions that pushed technologies and space travel to the edge.

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Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I refuse to dignify this attack with a response,” said Henry Guillart, the CEO, just hours after Hughes had given his initial negative presentation at an investor conference in New York. sensed a deep discomfort in the CEO, as if Henry was afraid to tangle publicly with Hughes. That decision turned out to have serious consequences.

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Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I also know all too well that, like all strategies, superconsumer strategies can be hard to implement, because of internal processes, misaligned incentives, and organizational structures that are difficult to navigate. Along with Reed Hastings, Netflix’s founder and CEO, she wrote a PowerPoint presentation on Netflix culture.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

“You need to be clear to this person about how his level of effort has consequences in terms of his chances of promotion, financial incentives, and choice assignments,” she says. These people may be smart and even pretty good at their jobs, but they rarely pitch in when then the team needs help. ” Be flexible. .”

Delegation 8

Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives. While well-intentioned, these efforts fail to recognize that CEO behavior is largely circumscribed by firm structure. Note the solution is not to avoid outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Those failures can mean a lot of things — over-budget, data integrity issues, technology limitations, and so forth. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. Broadcast this message loud and clear from the CEO and sales leadership.

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CRM Project Succession CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Leila Kamal, vice president for design and expertise, not only reports to the CEO but also is a member of the board. Support incentives within the organization that both recognize current expertise and encourage it to be shared. Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Charles Hensley''s perspective about tax inversion challenges us to think about ''national'' status, incentives, and the constraints of 20th C thinking. Pfizer’s CEO, for example, is British. AstraZeneca’s CEO is French and it has a domestic density rating of only 12 percent.

Finance 131

Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” Employee incentives. In doing so, CEOs could recognize how much their companies have gained from social investments made in the past.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Nonetheless, many CEOs and top executives struggle with their functional organizations, and some question whether the established functional model is still relevant. They therefore have little incentive to overcome these hurdles.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

I thought perhaps I was misunderstanding what was being said, so I decided to Google the phrase “Culture Trumps Strategy&# and found that Stanford offered an Entrepreneurship Lecture by this title, I found several CEOs using the phrase in speeches, press releases, etc., As a non-advidsor to CEOs there is much I am learning from you!

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