Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Large companies rarely face this growth killer since most of them maintain deep cash reserves, have access to the financial markets, and possess the financial discipline to react long before a crash. Midsized companies need to be far more cash-conscious — even penurious — when their markets go sour. firm in 1989.

Crisis 8

Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Some politicians claim that unsystematic loan losses, like the $2 billion loss JP Morgan recently suffered, significantly increase the risk of another financial crisis. A 30% drop in real estate prices, which systematically threatened all lenders with upwards of a trillion dollars of losses, caused the financial crisis.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Short-term Banking Crisis 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

labor market since the Great Depression, we learned Friday that 203,000 new jobs were created in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 7%. The average hourly wage in management and technical consulting is $37.44; in legal services it’s $37.07. Five years after the start of the worst six months for the U.S.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Some politicians claim that unsystematic loan losses, like the $2 billion loss JP Morgan recently suffered, significantly increase the risk of another financial crisis. A 30% drop in real estate prices, which systematically threatened all lenders with upwards of a trillion dollars of losses, caused the financial crisis.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Short-term Banking Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

Management 10

Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis. If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants.

COO 14

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. For example, I have ranked speaking to a small group of teens at a crisis center higher than speaking to a large audience that may drive a six-figure revenue. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus. Srini Pillay. Maura Thomas.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Audience SWOT Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout. Before the crisis, both countries had respectable debt profiles. One of those banks, Anglo-Irish Bank, lent 67 billion euros to the non-financial sector (real estate) in 2007 alone.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

When I was teaching at Peking University, for example, one of my fellow professors monitored an experiment in which the Chinese government gave local villagers the rights to manage a forest. Opponents will point out that the discovery of oil and gas can explain a lot of North Dakota's recent success.

Biotechnology 9

Biotechnology Real Estate Tourism Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management.

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Temporary employment has jumped 50% since the depths of the financial crisis. Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

With interest rates at historic lows, market volatility, political uncertainty, the European crisis, severe commodity price fluctuations, and other unpredictable market conditions, corporate brands and executives have been understandably inclined to sit on the sidelines. But history shows that cash cannot sit idle indefinitely.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 22, 2020

The cost of corporate real estate has long been an issue for those in the facilities management profession, but the costs associated with urban living is increasingly an issue for HR departments too. Attracting the best.

Real Estate 97

Real Estate Environment Handbook Software 97

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We'd lost half of our market value in just one year. That is what is helping employees feel more fulfilled despite even this latest economic crisis. A high percentage of the city's real estate has been abandoned. Perhaps you've heard the story. We were at a strategic crossroads for our shareholders. The Flywheel Effect.

Company 14

Company Real Estate Retail Commitment 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. Ford blamed Firestone for tires that would not hold up.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 61

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I’m not going to carp too much because it’s in keeping with the Freelancers Union’s noble aim of taking the lemons dealt by the labor market over the past decade-plus and turning them into artisanal lemonade. The world surely needs more landscapers and maids than management analysts, and it gets them.

MBO 10

MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Much of the economy consists of hardware shops, carpenters, plumbers, concrete makers, masons, even real-estate agents. We simply disagree with the idea that if it's a market, it can't also be a socially progressive solution. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project.

Suri 14

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

practical-support/management-community/blogs/why-are-ceos-rarely-fired Kerri Nowak I greatly appreciated this post! Any manager or supervisor that showed any leadership or aggressiveness was immediately dismissed. A poor manager or supervisor is more than just an organizational problem. https://www.managers.org.uk/practical-support/management-community/blogs/why-are-ceos-rarely-fired

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My grandfather ran the exports, while my great-uncle managed the palm plantation. And Southeast Asia''s financial crisis was crippling Indonesia''s growth; perhaps my uncles sensed vulnerability. He liked hearing that and became excited thinking about how to take advantage of the crisis. I laughed at that one.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Family businesses rarely receive much public attention unless they are in crisis. Right now we have an honest to goodness Greek tragedy in Market Basket, a large family-owned grocery store chain being run into the ground by the feuding Demoulas (yes, Greek-American) family. And this is also true at Market Basket.

Marketing 8

Marketing Real Estate Loyalty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This is a familiar scene for companies building mines, pipelines, oil fields, and, more recently, even renewable energy and large real estate projects. ” Building and sustaining local stakeholder support for a major investment is the new frontier of successful management and risk assessment.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Eric Jacobson

MAY 19, 2022

Internationally renowned political scientist and management scholar and chancellor of Vanderbilt University Daniel Diermeier notes in his excellent book, Reputation Rules , “Executives operate under the mistaken belief that the public trusts them.

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Handbook Public Relations Chief Executive Officer How To 94

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

banks exploded in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, with disastrous consequences for American firms, markets, and households. Many banks, it turns out, responded to new regulatory and reporting demands by appointing a CRO, as a way to show regulators and investors that they were serious about risk management.

Banking 8

Banking Risk Management Crisis Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The second enhancement that I would suggest to the Piketty narrative is to draw a distinction between the real economy and the capital markets. The real economy is the one in which real companies, individuals and governments buy and sell real things for real prices.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Senge Bond Price 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Such a settlement must be carefully crafted if it is to avoid making the housing markets worse. As explained in a recent article in the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Real Estate Research, in the face of pending principal reductions, the borrower "who intends to repay has a strong incentive to make [him] look like a borrower who won't."

Banking 13

Banking Proposal Cost-Benefit Analysis Real Estate 13