Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While that has long been considered traditional retirement age, Boomers are known for bucking the system. Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. By comparison, China's FDI stock equals 8% of its GDP; more than 70% of that FDI consists of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (as opposed to joint ventures); and foreign firms produce half of China's exports and more than 90% of China's high-tech exports. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Startup accelerators support early-stage, growth-driven companies through education, mentorship, and financing. Accelerators have a positive impact on regional entrepreneurial ecosystems, particularly with regard to the financing environment. Quality matters. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The focus is on the near term. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. By providing software and counseling, the exchanges will help consumers make informed comparisons among these offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

So Shai Bernstein, an assistant professor of finance at Stanford’s GSB, and Arthur Korteweg of USC’s Marshall School of Business devised an experiment to identify what characteristics do distinguish startups. This suggests that a startup’s human capital is uniquely important to potential investors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

I talked with Joe Knight, author of the HBR TOOLS: Return on Investment and cofounder and owner of www.business-literacy.com , to learn more about this financial term and how it’s used by businesses, bankers, and investors. That’s where the debt-to-equity ratio comes in. What is the debt-to-equity ratio?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Since the term was coined in 2007 , impact investing — the idea that private capital can be deployed to alleviate pressing social needs like access to clean water, affordable housing or preventative healthcare while returning a financial profit — has attracted significant public and media attention.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

— and comparing that to what you made this years in terms of profit. ” Perhaps it’s not investing in new machinery and equipment, which will damage its long-term prospects, no matter “how good its ROA may look at the moment.” Expenses are often a matter of estimation, not to say guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Any other theory of how business ought to behave is going to sound muddled and inconsistent in comparison. It's easy to throw out the phrase "long-term," but far harder to define it or work toward it. Elegant, no? Same goes for the theories of corporate governance that it inspired. Even if it's closer to being right.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Don’t base the business on ‘apples to oranges’ comparisons. See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Understand what your company really needs and why. Don’t pit one consultant against another, just to get free ideas. What is their longevity?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. How far will we go to excel?

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Entrepreneurship Finance Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. But in April, just after U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. However, I have recently changes my tune.

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