Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

This was not to be a man-in-a-garage-with-duct-tape project, but one requiring the resources of the MIT Media Lab and over $150 million in financing for the startup, E Ink. The human mind requires stimuli — inputs for response — and certain forms of constraint serve as stimuli for creative responses.

Constraint 15

Constraint Creativity Innovation Resources 15

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

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. Finance Sustainability' For smaller companies it could well prove to be a bigger one.).

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. Finance Sustainability' For smaller companies it could well prove to be a bigger one.).

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

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.” Finances were a consideration. “But in middle age, the scope is tighter.”

Career 12

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 12

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. ” Assumption 2: Women are reluctant to grow their businesses, whereas men are willing to do so. ” “ He is looking for a company to buy.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 9

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. A Solid Foundation for Financing. For many communities, the greatest barrier to becoming a Smart City is cost.

Content 8

Content Efficiency Energy Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

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. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Each of these units acquires its own resources within constraints authorized by its departmental budget. This annual process makes it problematic for the department to invest in an innovative technology. Problem 3: Separating operating- and capital-budget timelines and processes. Heads of the various service lines/IPUs (e.g.,

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The two major parties seem to finally realize that this is our last chance and that if they do not put aside their micro-party priorities and constraints and share the responsibility for the tough decisions that need to be taken, they will cut poor figures in the history books of the next generation. But there is very little margin for error.

Crisis 14

Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 14

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. It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. Unique tools, data, or process.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Without the constraints of money and responsibilities of your business, what will be your “reasons to keep trying” as Persson put it? Accept that this will be a reinvention process. Here’s an example from one of my coaching clients: Get my personal finances in order. How will this impact friendships?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Follow-up Constraint Planning 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

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

But the theory of psychological reactance suggests that, even when the boss is not otherwise resented, people will react against any perception of a new constraint by rebelling against it. What they don't understand is that the process can work the other way.

How To 8

How To Politics Influence Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies. Getting someone to this point, however, can take guidance that seems counter-intuitive.

Management 8

Management Creativity Licensing Core Competence 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. teaching employees how to generate support from others.

Constraint 14

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

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. Microfund for Women in Jordan, meanwhile, is a standout in the area of bringing women's thinking to bear on its new product development process.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

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

JANUARY 10, 2013

Beyond resources controlled" implies resource constraints. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. At a new venture's outset, its founders control only their own human, social, and financial capital.

Definition 8

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

One commentator said, "About 10 years ago, IT people suddenly became business process experts. Strategy in IT is one thing, but the process experts suddenly began giving advice about areas in which they were not experts and honestly felt they should lead strategic planning for the entire organization." Can UX Save Enterprise IT?

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

We came to this place easily and methodically, by providing resources of quickly-evolving technology with no constraints. Patchwork attempts to mitigate or repair our broken information management processes do not get to the core of the issue. That''s a lot of money for digging through old e-mail. How did we get here?

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

” If you can’t run experiments within the constraints of your job, look outside the company. Buckle down on your finances. Neglect your finances so that when you want to make a change, you don’t feel able to. Case study #2: Get your finances in order. Case study #1: Turn to those who know you.

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

It could be about process — like how long the talks should take, and how the other side tries to involve stakeholders — which still gives you context that might prove useful. 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. Two years ago, Matt McConnell, who lives in southern California, wanted to move from finance to marketing. Case Study #1: Prepare and be gracious.

Information 8

Information How To Career Advice 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. Some health system executives are developing possible pathways for improving operations for achieving anywhere from 5% to 15% expense reductions, based on forecasts of cost elements both in the care process and in administration. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

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 11

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation. VCs have evolved from being financing arms and proxy boards to providing entrepreneurs with everything from lab space and equipment to a small army of programmers and coders.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

The European Union has 412 million internet users, but its market is fragmented; it is still in the process of creating a “digital single market.” Some of these countries demonstrate remarkable creativity in the face of severe infrastructural gaps, institutional constraints, and low sophistication of consumer demand.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

And for citizens of advanced countries, we imagined there would be plenty of work designing and overseeing the hyperspecialization process. These losses were offset by growth in higher-value-added jobs in consulting, finance & insurance, and computer systems design. to emerging economies.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Charles Hensley''s perspective about tax inversion challenges us to think about ''national'' status, incentives, and the constraints of 20th C thinking. IFJ is a rapidly expanding student-run publication that seeks to educate the undergraduate community about topics in finance, economics, business and technology.

Finance 131

Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

These efforts have addressed the infrastructure, processes, and financing (e.g., Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality. Most efforts to control costs or improve quality of care have focused on provider-facing “supply-side” initiatives. accountable care , medical homes ) of care delivery. Fix the Handful of U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Insurance Short-term 8