Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

But even with this renewed attention to innovation, some managers keep projects resource-starved, in the belief that scarcity drives creative invention. Although ingenuity can sometimes spring up when means are scarce, managers beware: It is a dangerous miscalculation to think that starving innovators will feed innovation.

Constraint 15

Constraint Creativity Innovation Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Therefore, for major oil and gas firms and big coal companies, divestment looks like less of a constraint. The question is: will management be receptive to shareholders’ pleas? Finance Sustainability'

Finance 8

Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Therefore, for major oil and gas firms and big coal companies, divestment looks like less of a constraint. The question is: will management be receptive to shareholders’ pleas? Finance Sustainability'

Finance 8

Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

There is an abundance of high-quality comparative effectiveness data for pharmaceuticals, largely because of the drug approval process, but there’s less data on the value of other expensive investments into health, such as doctor visits and hospitalizations. For both public and private insurers, a long-term view should be feasible.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

If you find yourself dwelling on what holds you back, Johnson recommends “reframing the constraints.” “The constraints are actually helpful.” “The constraints are actually helpful.” ” With this in mind, over time, Joel changed his management style. Finances were a consideration.

Career 13

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. According to Lucid, building managers can realize significant energy savings purely from operational measures.

Content 8

Content Efficiency Energy Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

.” In a two-part study, we observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. ” In contrast, men were characterized as ambitious, risk-taking, and eager to test their ideas. ” “ He is looking for a company to buy.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Each of these units acquires its own resources within constraints authorized by its departmental budget. A second, more radical solution is to create budgets and authority for a service line or integrated practice unit (IPU) that manages a patient’s entire treatment for a high-volume medical condition.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Other telecoms are offering solutions such as smart parking and waste management systems. A wave of public and private investment worldwide is going into making cities smarter — but that doesn’t change the fact that most municipal governments are working with serious spending constraints.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Once you’ve set a clear, realistic scope, it is vital to be honest about the budget and resources you will require and any time constraints. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Be Clear About Governance.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

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. ” On the other hand, unpredictable adaptive environments require a process that can be characterized as “vary, select, scale.” Unique tools, data, or process.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

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. training managers to take a new look at work processes. investing in what employees do outside of work.

Constraint 14

Constraint Bottom-up Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

In fact, our data indicate that the percentage of women in senior management and boards has been decreasing over the past eight years. For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Diversity Banking Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. One commentator said, "About 10 years ago, IT people suddenly became business process experts. IT needs to step up, but collaboratively — not as the smartest guys in the room.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because no one is managing the store. The day-to-day financial activity within the organization is then executed by management and staff, who shoulder the responsibility — delegated to them by the enterprise as part of their job — to account for funds, both incoming and outgoing. How did we get here?

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Beyond resources controlled" implies resource constraints. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. The entrepreneur's task is to manage this uncertainty, while recognizing that certain risks cannot be influenced by their actions. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

Definition 9

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

For sales managers, this is not an easy question to answer. But when leaders take this conservative growth approach even when there is reasonable certainty of success and available financing, they undersize their sales forces and forfeit opportunity. Do analysis that focuses on customers, not financial constraints.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

“It’s important to enjoy spending time with your colleagues and your manager,” says Dillon. “You might try to convince your manager to let you work remotely for a month,” he says. “I’ve never known many managers to say no to people offering to help out.” Do they hug? Christensen.

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The report also explains the wide range of measures companies are adopting to tackle the complexity; from cutting down management layers to simplifying product portfolios and processes. “It is clear from the research that complexity has become a constraint and a risk for firms,&# says Abhik Sen, editor of the report.

Crisis 78

Crisis Survey Analysis Finance 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” Jeff Weiss, a partner at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in corporate negotiations and relationship management, and author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating , agrees. We have to remember that they may be operating under constraints as well.” The conversation needn’t be personal, either.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

“That way, the person will start to process the fact that you are looking for additional sources early on. ” Ask about time constraints up front too, says Clark. And what would I need to do to allay the concerns of a potential hiring manager?” “One person’s word is not gospel,” she says.

Information 8

Information How To Career Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. If hospitals do not aggressively manage the cost of caring for Medicare patients against these fixed payments, losses result. Kaiser Permanente has been a leader in this evidence-based technology-review process for more than two decades.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

When we talk about natural resource constraints on business — such as shortages in water or increases in the cost of energy or agricultural products — we tend to forget how deeply intertwined these commodities are. Facing these clear resource constraints, businesses will need to adapt, and soon.

Energy 12

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations.

ROE 12

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Managers act more as enablers and connectors, providing regular feedback and tracking progress. Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation. Give employees (and their dogs) a long leash. Startups need money, too, of course.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8