Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

But is there something about these specific companies that others can learn? The small size of unicorns allows the top management teams to be directly and deeply involved in most of the strategic decisions, which are then implemented through a flat organization. Financed by VC firms. Led by serial entrepreneurs. billion.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Our data show that MBA students are flocking to classes to learn the art of social entrepreneurship. They see opportunities others do not for their companies to operate in ways that serve multiple constituencies — shareholders, employees, communities, and the planet. Do they always succeed in these endeavors?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We should, however, also be asking what set of conditions, constraints, pressures, and expectations affected the culture and organization to allow or produce the bad behavior. One thing I have learned is that the organization and its external environment matter. But they were important parts of an organization that messed up.

Banking 9

Banking Risk Management Constraint Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

We're here to learn about business, not family," they said. And when I started the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project a few years later, I got some strange looks, for it was odd to be a man talking about work and family at a business school known mainly for its strength in finance. investing in what employees do outside of work.

Constraint 15

Constraint Bottom-up Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Business leaders can start to design an integrated strategy machine by asking themselves these questions: What strategic aims do I want to realize through a technology-enhanced process?

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Building an embedded and sustained behavioral science unit, with expertise and resource at the heart of the organization, increases the chances that knowledge is shared, coordination is improved (rather than departments all trying to do their own thing), and outcomes are improved for all. Get the Vision Right.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so. CEOs sense the problem perhaps more than CIOs do.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This prompted a local labor-management trust fund to begin to consider a new approach: one in which players in the local heath care system address the challenges from the perspective of their region as a whole. Not surprisingly, it has not been easy for the organizations involved in the mid-Atlantic region to make progress.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

So do your homework. Learn who the biggest players are. “What frustrates busy people is when they agree to an informational interview, and then the person seeking advice spends 15 minutes talking about himself and his job search” instead of learning from them, says Lees. What do you enjoy about it?

Information 8

Information How To Career Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

You’ve finally figured out what you want to do with your life — start a company, launch a website, design an app, or found a nonprofit. Lots of people don’t know what they want to do. Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? So, where should you start? Create a strategy. Is it a small company?

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). And capital continues to expand. But the scales have now tipped in favor of accelerating growth.

ROE 13

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. But in our conversations with executives about what they’ve learned, we’ve seen a tendency to focus on superficial elements rather than on the root causes of companies’ success.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8