Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

That is, someone does the wrong thing while trying to do the right thing, and organizational systems fail to catch it and contain it. Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. The finance group scrutinizes capital requests. The first is the convergent aspect.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals? Decentralized, program-focused operations also squander precious dollars. Hence, the comparatively high cost of NGOs'' bookkeeping operations.

Globalization 8

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations. Cross-sector partnerships thrive through a network of decentralized leaders and managers who operate independent programs or organizations. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Some utilities help customers finance, install and maintain their own systems for generating power and heat through solar roof panels. Others help their commercial and industrial customers maintain small, decentralized generating units.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Decentralization Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

In HR (or finance or IT), 20% of the professionals are exceptional, adding value that helps organizations move forward, 20% of HR folks are locked into a fixed mindset and lack either competence or commitment to deliver real value, and 60% are in the middle. This is both unfair and simplistic. It ignores what I call the 20-60-20 rule.

Charan 10

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Here's how Antoin Murphy , one of the few scholars to have studied these strikes, which took place in the 1970s, describes it: "a highly personalized credit system without any definite time horizon for the eventual clearance of debits and credits substituted for the existing institutionalized banking system.".

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Decentralization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres how Antoin Murphy , one of the few scholars to have studied these strikes, which took place in the 1970s, describes it: "a highly personalized credit system without any definite time horizon for the eventual clearance of debits and credits substituted for the existing institutionalized banking system."

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Buffeted by a gust, they wouldn't just settle into a slightly different path but would spin out of control and break asunder if "fly-by-wire" computer guidance systems did not continually redirect them to avert disaster. How could decentralized trading move markets to equilibrium if there is only one good? But it is pure assumption.

Crisis 18

Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

As the cryptocurrency has matured, it’s often been criticized for its inability to match the performance of existing payment networks and meet the requirements of financial systems and governments. Every transaction and its associated value are visible to anyone with access to the system. Transparency with Pseudonymity.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade. Every transaction and its associated value are visible to anyone with access to the system. Transparency with Pseudonymity.

Document 10

Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But the decentralization debate was different. In Derek’s view, the subsidiaries already had far too much power.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

But this requires a new scale of leadership: system leadership. An example of system leadership can be found in the food industry, where an initiative that began with 17 food and agribusiness companies grew into a global network of 500 organizations taking action in 19 countries. Empower widespread innovation and action.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Similar to Ebola, Zika diagnosis currently requires polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a laboratory-based test that needs special equipment and personnel and is, therefore, difficult to scale and decentralize. Implementing this intensive response requires effective local health systems. Prevent Widespread Transmission.

Crisis 8

Crisis Decentralization System Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

A financial system that supports entrepreneurship. has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance the growth of those firms. Will America maintain these advantages?

Decentralization 15

Decentralization GDP Finance Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. But the system is rife with problems, adding cost through fees and delays, creating friction through redundant and onerous paperwork, and opening up opportunities for fraud and crime. Transparency with Pseudonymity.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Its priorities on creating an open and decentralized system that links multiple digital applications and services are core to how it accomplished these outcomes. It has historically been the preeminent hub for global finance because of a combination of history, geography, and its strengths in digital technologies.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10