Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. As mission critical as pricing is, it is also one of the most often undervalued and overlooked business disciplines.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. Like most things in life worth doing, blogging takes commitment and effort. It's crucial for your biz. Great post!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Each product-service is budgeted. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Commitment toward collaboration and working with other companies. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

But there’s a smaller community of people committed to addressing two more tangible risks: AI created with harmful biases built into its core, and AI that does not reflect the diversity of the users it serves. This lack of diversity is reflected in the products it produces. Eliminating Biases in AI: The Technology.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. True, we can point to the fact that airplanes are massively engineered for reliability, but let’s look beyond the machinery. system to delivering the product via logistics operations, to collecting the cash from customers. logistics, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem? They build a product hoping to monetize, but not knowing whether they will be able to. What follows is an edited version of our conversation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. We then required our entire staff to attend a week-long intensive program.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. We’ll never take their commitment lightly. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. My thoughts raced.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The opportunity may entail: 1) pioneering a truly innovative product; 2) devising a new business model; 3) creating a better or cheaper version of an existing product; or 4) targeting an existing product to new sets of customers. For example, a new venture might employ a new business model for an innovative product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM. For example, Megan, a woman we spoke to who works in finance, explained that after being harassed by a colleague, she went to HR and asked to move to a different position. I said, ‘I sure have. .’”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

GE is another firm that has committed its size and deep pockets to innovation. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The good news is that an increasing number of cities have made commitments to aggressive climate and sustainability goals , a trend we anticipate accelerating following the recent UN agreement in Paris. With the sustained national focus on codes, standards, and green-building certifications, such as the U.S. Insight Center.

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NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

If businesses in China can import capital equipment, secure accounting and consulting services, hire the most efficient workers in the country, and secure financing for any project, how then will you compete? New product and service invention is a key element of staying competitive in today's global economy, but it is not enough.

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Globalization Competitive Advantage Software Consultative 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. As with most PPAs, the contract was a critical asset for the energy developer to take, literally, to the bank to get financings. To do this, they have mostly used power purchasing agreements (PPAs) to buy their clean power.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This poses a deep challenge to companies organized by product and function rather than a customer-centric model like experience and value. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. Over: CMOs take over new responsibilities. In those cases CEOs are ahead of their CMOs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

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. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

At Esquel Group, we have been committed to this philosophy over the last three decades and are trying to promote it beyond our corporate boundary. 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.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Some, like the development of specific technology for a new product, largely benefit one firm. The former tends to be conducted by corporations to develop products they expect will be profitable, and the latter tends to be more exploratory. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development'

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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. And improved worker productivity and lower turnover frequently more than offsets these firms’ higher labor rates.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There are three pieces of data that are particularly shocking to internet, software, and biotech entrepreneurs who are on the verge of committing their firms to starting firms in secondary startup markets (and, in particular, outside of the San Francisco Bay). It’s time spent not building product. It takes longer to raise money.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory. GE, like the majority of other organizations in the market, has a strong and lengthy history focused on making, distributing and selling things—from jet or railroad engines, to kitchen appliances, and even wind turbines.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. Different operational skills. Total honesty.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? It is the commitment to English as the company''s official language. The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. Translation software?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It is simply wrong to value your workplace commitments over your family commitments – moreover it’s not necessary. A related challenge your article brings to mind: the notion of a "balanced" life may not mean that at any given time one's time and other resources are committed in a balanced way. You are the best!

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. How Porsche got the product right. That was heartening to the company’s executives and product designers. How Fiat Chrysler got the product wrong.

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Productivity Products Development Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. The skills most frequently mentioned as crucial during early stages include product design and development, pitching, and assembling a founding team.

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Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. This will likely mean a more flexible work structure as well, in the interest of products and services that ideally can be adjusted to anticipate customer needs. How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

A similar proposal to Split Finance would likely have been rejected out of hand by organization leaders (and Harvard Business Review editors), because its obvious that the Finance function must fit the organization strategy and leader capabilities. Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. Lastly, companies need (8) skills and talent that are differentiated from traditional R&D or new product development roles. xefstock2/Getty Images.

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Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

At one point during argument on April 16, 2012, Justice Scalia said of the plaintiff salespeople: "They look like salesmen to me," while Chief Justice Roberts commented, after one exchange, that "they don't make sales," presumably because sales calls do not lead to a "binding commitment" from the doctors. Propose Solutions. Negotiate & Close.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

In fact, marketing in the social era does start to look a lot like falling in love , following an arc of romance, struggle, stability, and commitment. Similarly, Evernote customers are known for declaring their "love" for the product as they buy — and buy they do. If you date 20 people, in 2.5 years will you end up with 0.7

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Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“You might move from product to engineering to ops.” Observation will “give you a better data set,” but if possible, you might also “do a project with the startup on the side” before you formally commit. He thought about his previous experience with products, projects, and companies.

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