Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Beyond resources controlled" implies resource constraints. Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms.

Definition 10

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster. At Goldman Sachs, one element that was different in the lead up to the financial crisis was not the amount of leverage but the constraints and incentives faced by partners. Ethics Finance Risk management'

Incentives 8

Incentives Banking Ethics IPO 8

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. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Historically, people got to the C-suite by progressing up the career ladder in one discipline, moving among multiple companies until they made it to an executive role in finance, sales, etc. Multiple roles, one company versus one role, multiple companies. Now, however, the model is changing.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.) Companies that are successful in fueling growth lower hurdle rates and relax other constraints that reflect a bygone era of scarce capital.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation. Think like engineers and customers. The more autonomy employees have to be resourceful and make decisions, the more likely they will be to stick around.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. And given current fiscal and credit constraints, it's unlikely that overall U.S.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Similarly, Apoorva Mehta, a former Amazon engineer and founder of Instacart, now valued at $2 billion, tried up to 20 different business models that failed before hitting the right one. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In this category, we primarily looked at three subcategories: inputs (financing options, talent retention, startup capacity), process (how sophisticated are firms’ business processes, and what’s the level of R&D?), We also measured broader concerns such as transparency, rule of law, and regulatory quality.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion. Such market shares will create a platform for global juggernauts.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8