Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

While meeting this challenge is a clear priority for policy makers and donors, it is also a major profit opportunity for commercial players who can solve market failures and create real value. Only one study found that microloans increased women’s decision-making power. Digital financial services let people help each other.

Microfinance 10

Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 10

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. But the likelihood for some success seems good.

Credit Scoring 10

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

But, like pharmaceuticals, each of these entities is represented by powerful lobbyists (such as physician and hospital organizations), who will strongly oppose any steps to reduce payments. Similar approaches could be used to help finance high-value health care investments that otherwise would be unaffordable.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. an estimated $100 billion per year.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

But recently oil prices have dropped so low that warning bells rippled through global markets, and they remain volatile. Bremmer: Markets have been diving on low oil prices recently not because the traditional understanding is broken; it is still true that low oil prices are good for the U.S. How big is the risk? How so, and how large?

Price 8

Price Energy Constraint Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Access to credit is a key constraint for entrepreneurs. These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. But the likelihood for some success seems good.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Given that potential range of outcomes, it’s wonderful that there is such a smart (and well financed) group of people being so thoughtful on the subject. Coming from folks who are at the upper echelons of the system, it’s a pretty powerful statement.

Altman 8

Altman Press Release Constraint System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Insurers leverage their purchasing power to exact discounts from providers and their administrative power to reduce benefits. Dominant providers leverage their market position to raise prices independently of cost or quality. Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality. Fix the Handful of U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. But although conventional due diligence for a deal involves deep market research and repeated rounds of interviews with founders and key customers, Correlation focuses on documentary information.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I have had to run worldwide social marketing campaigns in the past in order to attract attention to our work in what could be dismissed as obscure backwaters of the global system. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints. infrastructure.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit. Think like engineers and customers.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would suggest that rather than seeking what cannot in most cases ever be achieved, that it makes more sense to seek the highest standard of quality that can be delivered in the shortest period of time, and that is economically balanced relative to the constraints of an ever shifting marketplace. Good is the enemy of great.

Blog 419

Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Such market shares will create a platform for global juggernauts. The growth of SOEs.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9