Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

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

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. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. Let’s consider a few examples.

Uncertainty 309

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

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. And clearly, some regulatory judgment (horrors!) will have to be applied.

Credit Rating 13

Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

It appears that Enron''s final fatal mistake was to try to support its stock price instead of living up to key contractual obligations required to maintain its credit rating. What caused Enron''s bankruptcy was, quite simply, the loss of its investment-grade credit rating. What caused Enron to go bankrupt?

Price 8

Price Credit Rating Finance Chief Financial Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

It signaled that core members stood behind the euro and with a bit of luck and a following wind you could hope that the markets might not get too worked up about Portugal, Ireland, and Spain. But remove the currency markets and you take away the constant credit rating service the currency markets provided.

Banking 13

Banking Crisis Credit Rating Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Much of the hype around blockchains has focused on their potential to fundamentally change the financial services industry – by dropping the cost and complexity of financial transactions, making the world’s unbanked a viable new market, and improving transparency and regulation. Creating a better sharing economy.

Technology 8

Technology Cost Credit Rating Banking 8

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

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. In marketing, bad data make it more difficult to know the potential client. to manage quality.

Health Care 14

Health Care Credit Rating Reputation Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

And many AI-enabled startups are competing in the HR assessment market, using AI to crawl potential candidates’ social media accounts to filter out bad fits. 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.

Reputation 8

Reputation Learning-by-Doing Credit Rating Media 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? I think there’s a big marketing side to this story, and the ones who were good marketers ultimately succeeded.

Open-book 8

Open-book Trends Hammer Credit Rating 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

MAY 17, 2017

This helps to prove their identity, cutting down on fraud and creating market efficiencies. Global trade, with local regulation facilitated by technology, works because technology makes the transaction costs manageable. The system currently serves a billion people. The usefulness of blockchain has similar promise.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8