Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Their advice can be invaluable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The other CEOs in our sample didn’t directly oversee breakthrough innovation.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. In recent years we have learned a lot about the causes of short-termism and its intensifying power. public market capitalization over this period.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

And this isn’t for lack of ambition among them: Black women are even more likely to aspire to hold a powerful position with a prestigious title than white women. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions.

Management 12

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. That''s 72 million jobs just from this small sample. Wal-Mart understands the power of women-led firms to innovate compelling products. And in the U.S.,

Globalization 12

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

A working paper by Lily Fang, an associate professor of finance at INSEAD, and Sterling Huang, a Ph.D. The effect of connections is even greater in… how the market reacts to their buy and sell calls. This could suggest that women need to have more advantages to even get into finance in the first place. is the rallying cry.

Advice 8

Advice Sample Social Capital CEO 8

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.

Technology 8

Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize. Corporate finance?

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have more than 100 data scientists that power algorithmic capabilities used throughout the company. Statistical measures like AUC, RMSE, and R-squared quantify the amount of predictive power the data scientist’s exploration is adding. ” a marketer might ask. million clients in the U.S. and plans to enter the U.K.

Learning-by-Doing 9

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 9

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. Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department.

Case Study 12

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The Vanguard Group, for example, makes a point of interviewing a sample of clients who have convinced others to bring business to the firm. Some utilities help customers finance, install and maintain their own systems for generating power and heat through solar roof panels.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Decentralization Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. The power of economics lies in its rigor," he wrote. As economist Paul Samuelson is said to have said , "We have but one sample of history." And in his view it was a benevolent reign.

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Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A massive overhaul could start with labor market compensation practices. Those men who told us that they had financed their undergraduate educations through employment during school, private loans, government loans, and scholarships and grants were significantly less likely to plan to have children.

Policies 9

Policies Health Care Education Career 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

But the crowdfunding jewel is fool's gold, and is inherently incapable of harnessing "people-to-people power" and the "wisdom of crowds" to "democratize access to capital for entrepreneurs" in order to "create wealth and make things happen," as crowdfunding sites publicly proclaim. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Where should all this go in our minds?”.

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Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

These men represent the range of demographics, occupations, and clothing styles in my sample. The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. One of my participants, a 35-year-old marketing manager named Dave, offered a clue. Inside the Work Wardrobes of Five Fabulous Men Mark.

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Fashion Participative Class Creativity 10