Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Businesses should consider investing in legal expertise or compliance software to keep track of applicable laws and regulations, and it’s especially important for industries that are heavily regulated, such as healthcare, finance, and food service. Implementing a robust internal compliance program is also key.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2021

The green agenda that governments are touting is going to impact the cost of making products and that in turn will affect your price. Rather than offset the price completely, you could choose to optimize your profit by targeted increases in products. Work with local brands. Targeted increases.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Cultural (values, ethics). Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses. Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Economic (economic growth rate, stability, inflation).

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Being helpful comes with a price, and the price is more work. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Oftentimes, there is more risk in customer service when the answer to our concerns is “yes.” Can you help me? Will you make an exception and do this for me just this once? Could you look into this issue I’m having?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? Why would you ever want the person in charge of corporate leadership, vision and strategy to be a lame duck right from the get go?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

She is also moving into a bigger space in her building at a bargain price! As a business owner, I suggest you talk with your landlord about rent prices, you may be surprised to find out they are willing to lower your rent just to ensure you stay around.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996.  She became CEO of Avon in 1999, and in the past 9 years, she has helped to grow the company to achieve an annual revenue of $8.7

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 6, 2010

However, that’s a small price to pay for the positives that are derived. By being available as a mentor to other women – and also to men – we can lead by example as professionals and leaders, give others the benefit of our experience and perspective, and reap the reward of seeing others succeed in part because of our input.

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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. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? The financing structures built to protect Enron in just such an event were unwound.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Some of the things you should vary and test are: • Promotion offered • Price • Free offers • Graphics • Free Trial • Color • Font • Mail Format • Length • Day and time of emailing • Subject lines and body copy • Response device (reply to email, visit website, etc.)

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

For instance, people who entered adulthood during economic depressions tend to be attuned to economic and national security throughout their adult lives , and particularly cautious with their personal and professional finances. Based on these previous findings, we wondered: Would CEOs who began their careers during boom times be less ethical?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

include: MacDermid, Sanofi-Aventis, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Raytheon, USDA, Catalina Marketing, Nielsen Media, Starbucks, Fortune Brands, U.S.C., Â She has been published in leading industry magazines and ghost authored a number of chapters for books published by Linkage, Inc and Pearson Education. Johnson & Johnson and others. in Zoology.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. But Everything has a price, there is no smoke without fire!!!! On with the exam… Section I: Character. Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It was an event packed with prominent people who work (or worked) in finance, but seem to come from a different, more genteel world than the bulk of modern Wall Street: Bogle, Swensen, former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, former TIAA-CREF CEO John Biggs. All mutual funds are legally organized along these lines.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 16, 2018

Are you willing to have them pay the price for your choices? The risks Elihas took were too great… Too many … And people paid the price. You can’t be an ethical leader while doing unethical things. Yes, you’re going to have to face the consequences of your actions. And others may as well.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

This includes sales , marketing, customer support, pricing, and revenue management, distinctly mapping out the path to sustainable, profitable growth. In addition, a professional network can also provide invaluable insights into a candidate’s credibility, work ethic, and leadership style.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. For many companies, most of the capital expenditures are financed from internal cash flows and bank financing. Finance Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

To many, the obvious candidate for measuring corporate performance is share price. A generation of economists, finance theorists, business school professors, and would-be governance experts has embraced the notion that companies exist only to maximize "shareholder value.". In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.".

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). His vast experience from serving on the Committees of Finance, Judiciary, Education, and Rules. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Author: The Launch Book.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Kocieniewski describes forklift drivers moving aluminum from warehouse to warehouse in Detroit to profit from rules set by an overseas metals exchange, while delivery times to actual users of aluminum have stretched to 16 months and aluminum prices have been pushed up by the equivalent of a tenth of a U.S. Ethics Finance Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Many professions, such as medicine, finance, and law, already require evidence-based audit ability as a normal practice for providing transparency of decision-making and managing liability. Ethical systems are built around rules, just like computer algorithms. This is not as difficult as it sounds.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Ethics alert: this account is shamelessly self-plagiarized from something I wrote a few years ago.). That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economy Finance Risk management' Physicists, in his experience, didn’t do that. This wasn’t because they were any smarter than social scientists, Kuhn concluded.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

But he rationalized those actions in his mind at the time, because the result was higher leverage, a higher return on equity, and a higher stock price. Fastow suggested that to avoid falling into an ethical trap he should have asked himself the right questions: Am I only following the rules or am I following the principles?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

drop in asset prices would wipe out the equity of the bank. The result was an intense focus on risk, including risks related to ethical standards. Ethics Finance Risk management' At that 27-to-1 leverage ratio, only a 3.7% As a partnership, each partner was financially interconnected with the others.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. So, for those innovators at work today, just remember — you can price your way into a war with a powerful incumbent, but you can't price your way out of one. Depending on where you're working and what you're selling, you may be asking for their courage.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2012

In The Price of Inequality , Noble Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz points out that, at $90 billion, the combined wealth of the six Walton family heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune is equivalent to that of the entire bottom 30 percent of Americans. Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I would argue that it's not so much about misaligned incentives, as we might guess from standard economic theory, but rather because, from a behavioral perspective, hedge funds are "criminogenic" environments that can turn even ethical people into conscienceless sociopaths. Signal 2: Other Traders Aren't Acting Ethically.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

This has certainly resulted in lower stock trading commissions and, in recent years, smaller “spreads” between the prices at which brokers offer to buy or sell stocks. Ethics Finance Technology' (and elsewhere) have kept pushing for more competition, lower transaction costs, and a smaller middleman’s take.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Moreover, increases in pay for the FTSE 350 occurred at a much faster rate than increases in company profits or share price. customer satisfaction, risk audits, adherence to company ethics). CEOs may be as much as 300 times the average pay today. Income inequality is increasing. percent of the national income compared to 5.93

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Just in the past few months, the Columbia Business Law Review has come out with an entire issue devoted to the topic (based on a symposium held at Columbia last fall), and Edward Elgar has published a 512-page Research Handbook on Insider Trading (list price, $240) edited by UCLA Law Professor (and prolific blogger ) Stephen Bainbridge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Their goal was to hit the lowest possible price point, and to appeal to “digital native” customers. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. For example, consider the Economist ’s Big Mac index , which measures the cost of a Big Mac in various countries in terms of its difference from the average Big Mac price in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products. Experimentation is vital.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. (McKinsey responded that it was actually investing more on intellectual capital, but on the industry-specific variety of more use to consultants and clients.) You can still find many an alum of McKinsey (or Bain & Co.,

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