Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We found that over 10% of the people in our sample reported working in a job field that did not match their field of education. Over 30% of the people in our sample reported that their job was only somewhat related to their field of study. Two results were especially surprising and offer important insights.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The survey methods stratified firms by industry, age, and size so that our sample reflects the characteristics of businesses in the region. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing. Our data include about 950 businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s to live on the sort of shoestring budget that startups demand. This, coupled with relative affordability, makes it a place people want to call home.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. Fukuyama's would-be allies in the business world haven't developed what you could call a coherent plan of attack.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We typically imagine that the young can help the old understand technology and the old can impart general wisdom. Over time, financial literacy increases; in our sample, it was highest for people in their sixties. So it makes sense for the old to share their insights about finances with the young. What might this look like?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Sample stocks in the ETF are the 100 companies which have the highest social contribution per share, and they are selected from a larger sample of about 300 companies that release their social responsibility reports and reassessed annually. Going further, the SSE raised 2.8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

We conducted an investigation of 2,000 entrepreneurs across 950 randomly-sampled startups based predominantly in the U.S., Although disrupters and builders in our Crunchbase sample averaged comparable FTE counts, they had significantly different employee tenure rates. employees), and FTE start and end dates (average of 2.5

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Fueled by passion and purpose, they produced and tested foundation samples on their own time. Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. But it turned out that the analysts had selected a biased sample of older cars with higher-than-average maintenance costs among cars of the same age.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? ” Finance is less important. Juan Díaz-faes for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. A specialist background to lead innovation is worth a 4% better shareholder return every year for 20 years, compared to other pharma CEOs in our sample.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

We supplemented our model by using an algorithm and dataset developed by University of Pennsylvania to identify the apparent gender of our subjects and their followers. The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. The algorithm is able to infer gender based on language.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

statistic is an equally-weighted average of the plans in the PSCA sample, and it doesn’t take into account the fact that there are more participants in large plans, and large plans are more than twice as likely to offer the Save More Tomorrow program than small plans. Using the latest Plan Sponsor Council of America data, 22.8%

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recommend you devote the bulk of your marketing budget to developing excellent content and lots of it, with some additional funds set aside for design, production, and maintenance. Categories : business development To learn more about Monica S. 2) Always add a contact form. Follow her on Twitter as @monicadear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Today, we face the risk that investors, traders, and regulators are failing to understand the extent to which technological progress is — or more precisely is not — reducing financial uncertainty. The lesson for finance is stark. Two areas are of particular concern. For example, suppose we polled 1% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of charitable donations, artistic projects, or cool product development in exchange for samples or royalties, can work and has worked. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding. Crowdfunding of debt can work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

But affiliation doesn’t guarantee enthusiasm, as this sample of survey comments reveals: “On sabbatical from the Democratic party”; “Republican, unless they keep acting like goofballs”; and “Independent (especially this year!).

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