Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. You can, however, embrace uncertainty by adjusting your views as new information becomes available.

Uncertainty 308

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

Engineering 8

Engineering Innovation Content Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

The Securities and Exchange Commission began using the ratings issued by what they called Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (and yes, they actually do use the acronym NRSRO) to judge whether securities firms' balance sheets were solid enough. In the case of the U.S.,

Credit Rating 13

Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Customer relationship management software revolutionized how companies manage their sales pipelines. Now a new breed of software applications is reshaping sales force management. It notifies a company if one of its competitors files a credit check on a customer, signaling potential defection.

Software 8

Software Credit Rating B2B Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Workplace inspections not only improve safety, they cause no discernible damage to employers' ability to stay in business and no reductions in sales or credit ratings, according to our research. Managers should welcome OSHA inspections. We now have the data to prove it.

Credit Rating 13

Credit Rating Insurance Cost Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

At its most basic, blockchain is a vast, global distributed ledger or database running on millions of devices and open to anyone, where not just information but anything of value – money, titles, deeds, music, art, scientific discoveries, intellectual property, and even votes – can be moved and stored securely and privately.

Technology 8

Technology Cost Credit Rating Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2011

From falsified mortgage applications and bundles of toxic mortgages, to incorrect credit ratings and balance sheets that couldn't be trusted, the financial crisis is as much about bad data as it is about unfettered greed. But they don't manage them that way. to manage quality. You need a quality program that does so.

Health Care 14

Health Care Credit Rating Reputation Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 2012, Facebook applied for a patent that would use an algorithm to assess the credit ratings of friends, as a factor in one’s eligibility to get a mortgage. For many teens, online reputation management is a daily reality that they’re well versed in. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Reputation 8

Reputation Learning-by-Doing Credit Rating Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Because of their relationships with banks, PE funds can get financing much cheaper than target companies could under their current management. At the same time, there are certain ways LBOs can actually make it easier for firms to invest in the long term. Their sample included 35,081 firms and 407 buyouts that took place between 1998 and 2005.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

What effect does it have if we change the way we manage firms? If you get very confident that government knows what it’s doing and can manage the economy well, does that increase risk at all? Economy Entrepreneurship Managing uncertainty' Fisher doesn’t think trends are important at all; instead he believes in causation.

Open-book 8

Open-book Trends Hammer Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Here's something that senior managers should keep in mind as they launch Big Data initiatives: Advanced analytics is mostly about finding relationships between different sets of data. Say you're a manager at a consumer retail store — how many web customers also purchase at your brick and mortar stores, and how often?

Insurance 15

Insurance Team Credit Scoring Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

No single party controls the data or the information. Each node stores and forwards information to all other nodes. Global trade, with local regulation facilitated by technology, works because technology makes the transaction costs manageable. Each party on a blockchain has access to the entire database and its complete history.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8