LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” Is it market share of products? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share?

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Strategy Driven

JUNE 9, 2016

or your organization; It’s not the strength of your relationship or who you ‘know’; It’s not the market, your competition, your return potential or your marketing materials. And then the problem with marketing materials. Marketing materials must be developed to cover any possibilities and used appropriately.

Succession 50

Succession Content Marketing Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Ethics aside, Auld’s Craigslist experiment is worth reading. The consensus, no surprise, is networking. Yet, the comments also reinforce Auld's opinions about how crazy and daunting the job market can be. Within 24 hours, his fears were realized. He received over 600 replies. Understood. Contradictory advice abounds.

Marketing 12

Marketing CIO Consensus Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

For instance, based on your credit score, profession, age group, or zip code, marketers infer that you fit into specific marketing demographics. Perhaps the extrapolated marketing use points to a heavy drinker in a desirable economic demographic or with a preferred liquor brand.

Crisis 9

Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. So, on balance, having a futures market appears better than not having a futures market.

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Ethics alert: this account is shamelessly self-plagiarized from something I wrote a few years ago.). On the theoretical side, there seems to be much less consensus than there was 50 years ago about what rational behavior under uncertainty even looks like. Physicists, in his experience, didn’t do that. In macroeconomics, too.

Cooper 9

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. As best I can tell, there is no such methodological consensus in sociology, political science, anthropology, or history at the moment.

Tversky 12

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It's the company's deeply embedded belief system, its prevailing ethics, and the way people within the company interact with each other and with customers. Usually when people talk of DNA they're raising questions of corporate culture: Does the company rely on consensus among managers or are strategies and tactics directed from the top?

Software 13

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 13

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

After graduating from my undergrad education (2007) I unexpectedly joined my parents’ company as the Global Sales and Marketing Director…it has been amazing yet seems to be a daily trial by fire test. In situations where consensus cannot be reached, they have an uncanny ability to cut to the chase and make informed decisions.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. New research led by Lan Jiang, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Oregon, shows that if you give a shopper an unearned reward, she’ll probably have mixed feelings if she’s observed by other people, such as shopper No.

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Maybe it’s estimating how much a market will grow next year, or finding the best strategy to beat a competitor. ” In fact, it was the consensus estimate created by financial experts. We also asked participants how intelligent or ethical they perceived the other person to be, based on their recommendation.

Participative 11

Participative Cost Strategy Ethics 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Why do anti-profit beliefs persist in a market society? Our research.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. All without you explicitly asking it to do so.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Failure to meet them could be interpreted as having a poor work ethic or being incompetent. This isn’t to say deadline-oriented cultures aren’t concerned with doing a job well or nurturing relationships, but getting the job done on time is the primary capitalistic driver of being first to market. Why might this be?

Delegation 12

Delegation Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

And French President Emmanuel Macron, after months of confrontation with labor unions on his labor market reform, is considering changes to the corporate governance to, among other issues, strengthen workers’ participation to company boards. Since becoming Prime Minister, she has not followed suit, though.

Participative 8

Participative Crisis Consensus Constraint 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

In the era of big collaboration, the ethicization of business, and the complexity that comes with globalization 2.0, The financial market already recognizes it: In an academic study of 30 public companies that announced co-CEO arrangements, the average stock return that could be attributed to the announcement was 2.58

Leadership 244

Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244