Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. We can leverage each other’s expertise. Mine your backyard.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. The compensation committee should push for clearer links between pay and performance for IT-related activity (which ultimately is nearly everything most firms do). IT management' Accountability.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

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. When functional boundaries prevail, there is no construct for managing capabilities.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

We should also question the assumption that investor preference for quick returns limits managers’ ability to invest in the future. As Ed Lazowska , who co-chaired President Bush’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, says, “In it’s essence, innovation is combination.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Compliance 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. The clinic created a high-level steering committee to oversee all its costing and value-improvement projects. Establishing this committee signaled that implementing value-based health-care delivery was an institutional priority.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

The letters also warned that "the regulatory agencies involved hold powerful leverage through their ability to cut off financing to groups that fail to comply.". On February 6th, the State's Standing Committee on Investigations and Government Operations is holding a hearing. Cut to present. I could list thousands more.

Execution 13

Execution Letter Committee Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Suppose a customer manager from a major computer solutions company in the U.S. coordinates a global sales team of more than a dozen of the company's employees, including product specialists, engineers, and finance people. The salesperson is still a vital link in this process. Consider this example.

Pharmaceuticals 13

Pharmaceuticals Banking Objective Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Medicine is fraught with anachronistic administrative structures, as well as competing and redundant decision-making processes involving many stakeholders (the hospital, doctors, nurses, compliance, finance, and others) who often work in silos and have differing goals.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

But if the economists on the Nobel committee can’t decide whether financial markets are efficient, we probably shouldn’t expect America’s highest court to. Economy Finance Risk management' a company producing mostly alumina-based refractories,” then announcing in December 1978 that they had agreed to a merger.

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8