Women on Business

MARCH 30, 2011

The fact is that businesses will not assume the risks necessary for innovation and development if they’re not ok with the idea of failing on some level. The problem with fearing failure is that you ultimately avoid risk, don’t bet on yourself or your business, and stunt your richest experiences.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Whether it’s called reflection, feedback, or postmortem – debriefing after every project or event is not an option – it’s an imperative! But how is this done? Authors James D.

Short-term 63

Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 63

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

How you answer this question may be the most important factor in how you design your product development process — and, ultimately, in whether your business succeeds or fails. Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products? Look at the variance of your new-market products. Product development'

Black-Scholes 8

Black-Scholes Productivity Products CAPM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. The very lack of consensus in CAPM interpretation, he thought, was consistent with the workings of healthy and efficient markets. "It

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

Many are deeply uncertain about which initiatives they should fund — and one root of this indecision is a general lack of confidence in the cost of capital projections they are using to make the call. More than one-third of organizations forecast explicit cash flows for the first 10 years of a project. What's holding them back?

Cost of Capital 12

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9