Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Lesson 1: Set clear boundaries.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. Later that afternoon, at the end of a regular meeting with the finance team, Lance asked Damon to stay behind.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth. He wanted out.

Media 9

Media Hammer Software Company 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. But although conventional due diligence for a deal involves deep market research and repeated rounds of interviews with founders and key customers, Correlation focuses on documentary information. Design appropriate to the aim.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin. Martin was a former stockbroker and New York Stock Exchange president who took graduate classes in finance at Columbia while working on Wall Street in the 1930s.

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. Impact investing is in part reconciling what markets may not be serving well.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. When the Riksbank Prizes in Economic Sciences (a.k.a. It goes back to the 1970s.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Getting the sales team together in one room, I played a video describing the company, its basic principles and policies, its competitive advantages, its sales volume, how it had already successfully penetrated a number of non-US markets, and its vision for the future.

Company 8

Company Franchising Retail Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) If employees don't want to change, they have power.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. Consider the Miami condo market, which has rebounded quite nicely since 2008 on the back of strong demand from Latin American buyers. at all, only in some de facto way."

Hammer 20

Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. I ran into this conundrum last week, when I was interviewing another CEO interested in policy, Whole Foods Market's John Mackey, for the HBR IdeaCast (the podcast will air in January, when Mackey's new book, Conscious Capitalism , is published).

Politics 8

Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8