Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Hiring makes financial sense for short-term projects, while buying used machinery can work out a lot cheaper than buying brand new models. If you run a construction company, for example, you may want to look for talented individuals to work on specific jobs, rather than employing a team of workers on a full-time basis.

Outsourcing 51

Outsourcing ROI Marketing Strategy Short-term 51

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Whether it comes to our finances, our health, our communities, or our planet, it’s easy to avoid thinking ahead. Today more than ever, all of us need to know how we can make better long-term decisions in our lives, businesses, and society. There's a better way.

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2020

Bear in mind, when you’re flipping a house you’ve both bought and sold it in a short period of time. When financing your flipping project, you need to ask yourself these 3 questions: Am I buying at the correct price? The answers will be key to planning your first flipping venture’s financing.

Advice 94

Advice Real Estate How To Price 94

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2021

Payday loans are short term loans that can be repaid by the borrower within 30 days, that is, till their next payday. Business loans can only be used for specified purposes such as construction, payments to suppliers, employee salaries, or new equipment. Payday loans offer a lot of relief to teachers in this regard.

Credit Scoring 83

Credit Scoring Banking Education Survey 83

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Vision statements, as implied in the construction of the phraseology itself, put forth a statement of envisioned future.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

All these and more speak to the fact that communication is almost always best when aligned with the natural human tendency to think and learn in terms of stories. In short, what I needed for him to do was paint me the picture, not give me the dimensions of the frame. We remember what we see much better than what we merely hear.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 112

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. Which is exactly the kind of business that Jeff Bezos and his colleagues have constructed at Amazon over the past decade. Finance Internet Retail' Maybe that’s true.

Retail 17

Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

In Greece, acquiring construction permits, registering property, and enforcing contracts in courts require vast amounts of paperwork and time. This suggests that in addition to short-term policy changes, Greece needs a longer-term cultural shift. And it all starts in school. But Greece cannot stop there.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). In short, everything that can make you the most helpful and inviting business partner possible! Instead, focus on long tail terms that are relevant to your audience but attainable. It grows sales. There's that q-word again.) (3)

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The cost of doing business — and especially the cost of local production — would go up, and budget-busting government spending increases would erode long-term business confidence despite short-term stimulus. What might seem to be a local dispute over fisheries and oil fields has much broader implications.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We still believe the executives at Tejon Ranch made some mistakes, as did we, but our biggest collective mistake was thinking in terms of threats rather than opportunities. As the tension built, the chance of working together positively and constructively to add value for the benefit of all shareholders slipped away.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Bricolage , a French word by origin, means the construction of things from a set of available items. The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. If they find that there is high usage, they can then negotiate terms and agreements.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” They’re “all about the pitch and the deal” and are eager to sprint for short-term payoffs. DPR Construction, for example, is a deeply thoughtful, highly progressive force in an often troubled, slow-to-change industry. Missionaries, on the other hand, are “strategic.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Kleiner Venture Capitalist Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. I had an idea of constructing a certain statistical procedure. I finally did pay a visit to his office in D.C.

Long-term 9

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

It is, in short, about you and I, and the places we seek for ourselves in the world. Let me couch this for you in the pedestrian terms of financial hydraulics — the tawdry terms which seem to substitute for thinking in what's become of our thin, shallow economic and political discourse. Who authors the destiny of nations?

Price 13

Price Short-term Proposal System 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

When you view this reaction in terms of expectations, it makes a bit more sense. Consider what happened in the mid-1990s, when the Fed raised short-term interest rates sharply in order to stamp out what it perceived as a possible overheating of the economy. It] elevated the long-term asset value expectation.”.

Bond 8

Bond Policies Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Construction has decreased by 40% and small shops are closing at a rapid rate. Unemployment has reached an historical record of 18.4%, 30% of whom are below 30 and continues to rise. An increasing number of able and qualified young people emigrate. Consumption continues to drop. GDP shrunk this year by 5.5%

Crisis 13

Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Tucker believes that recovery and resolution plans should reduce the direct hit to public finances following a bank's failure or distress, while also containing the system-wide impact. For a resolution regime to work effectively, the protocol for implementing a recovery or resolution plan needs to be credible in the short and long terms.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital.

ROE 10

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. These functional teams struggle to meet the short-term needs of all their constituents, juggling an endless (and often conflicting) list of demands from line units.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. Without its own currency, Zimbabwe relies on USD for over 90% of transactions , but the collapse in exports means money is in short supply.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

In one telling case , construction workers went home at the end of the week as employees only to be informed on the following Monday that, perhaps by the magic of some unknown force, they had become, “member/owners” of hundreds of limited liability companies, effectively stripping them of federal and state job protections.

Document 10

Document Insurance Construction Cooper 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. In academic terms, we would put it this way: extrinsic motivation causes people to distort the truth regarding goal attainment. Contingent pay leads to cooking the books.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

As their personal finances shored up, professionals I surveyed yearned for more control over their lives. Research shows (PDF) that regret can be a powerful catalyst for change, far outweighing the short-term emotional downsides. You can't ever get those years back.". I wish I had the confidence to start my own business.

Career 8

Career Golden Handcuff Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

First, individuals focus on short time horizons and thus underprepare for future threats. In short, the insurance industry is adapting in order to profit from climate risk, and in doing so it will help society adapt as well. with the construction of flood walls around Hoboken, New Jersey, and Norfolk, Virginia.

Insurance 8

Insurance Real Estate Industry Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Clawbacks are an essential technique for balancing long-term business health against short-term bonus wealth. Their defenders argue that consistent losers will, of course, get fired — so what's the long-term point of clawbacks? Emphasizing bonuses at the expense of clawbacks is bad for everyone.

Incentives 14

Incentives Committee Banking Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry. Improving Outcomes.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Strategic — actualized, in Maslow's terms — boards underpin high-performance companies, where directors take appropriate risk to make significant contributions and lasting impact on enterprise value. Poor strategic alignment also hampers a board's ability to prioritize issues and set their near-term agendas.

Compliance 8

Compliance Maslow Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Such relationships form the basis of an executive's ability to influence and persuade others and deal constructively with conflict and the differences of opinion that inevitably arise in fast-paced organizations. Shortly thereafter, the pace of her career progress began to stall.

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Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. treating suppliers as partners).

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

You can start to make changes once you have confidence that the expectations of yourself and others really are unreasonable and that you can set boundaries in a respectful, constructive manner. People who manage their finances well follow a few consistent principles. Step 3: Compare Expected Versus Actual. Step 4: Ask For Direction.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Long-term Short-term Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Goldman's relatively smooth sail through the crisis was in part the product of a governance culture that doesn't put the short-term interests of shareholders first and conceives of the firm as an institution geared toward long-term survival. Throwing insiders off of boards is simple.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Banking Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

But, occasionally, you can discover new information that “will help you construct a solution.” Now you have some difficult decisions to make about how to divvy up responsibilities while you’re short-staffed. . “Very often you can do nothing about it,” she acknowledges. Transfer knowledge.

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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8