Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

First, small businesses tend to be more productive than larger ones and may be especially unlikely to invest in risk management that diverts resources from production. The survey methods stratified firms by industry, age, and size so that our sample reflects the characteristics of businesses in the region.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

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.

Entrepreneur 8

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m willing to bet it’s the same logic; the more you work away from the office, the more likely you are to violate your IT department’s policy–and justify the increased risk to company data by your own increased productivity). Generational issues Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. The women in my sample were asked to think back on two defining career moments that best prepared them to advance. How People Get Ahead. They pursue management challenges.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. without any compliance process or technology in place.". The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant. 132 characters for Goldman; one giant leap for the Twitterverse.

Compliance 15

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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. Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. Learning how to build and maintain tangible assets is crucial to leading a long and productive life.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Self-aware Reputation Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular. employees), and FTE start and end dates (average of 2.5

Disruptive Innovation 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

Learning-by-Doing 8

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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. The question is whether TFA's seemingly prolific production of entrepreneurs is fact or simple hearsay. The answer appears to be yes.

Entrepreneur 14

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. Since that time, however, the U.S. has transitioned to a market-oriented system of employment. Presently, many U.S.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

It was a problem regardless of brand, formula, or product — until Atis set her sights on solving it once and for all. Fueled by passion and purpose, they produced and tested foundation samples on their own time. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

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. Several studies have shown that when employees frame their goals around learning (i.e.,

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Some of the most influential papers from the 1970s featured simple correlations and occasional regressions on cross-sectional data for modest samples, any of which might be rejected out of hand today. Instead of seeking management jobs at GM or Eastman Kodak or Westinghouse, MBAs from elite schools went into finance and consulting.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 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

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? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Cofounders are crucial.

Engineering 13

Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

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.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Yet, virtually none of these capabilities were asked for by executives, product managers, or domain experts — and not even by a data science manager (and certainly not by me). They want to see how their new algorithm performs in real life, so they expose it to a small sample of clients in an experiment.

Learning-by-Doing 10

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 10

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%

Tools 10

Tools Participative Planning Education 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In the start-up world, the disruptor is the cool kid on the block, the one who’ll change the world — or at least the products you’ll buy and how you buy them. A new product or technology sells better to all stakeholders if people can be persuaded that it will disrupt the status quo. Gina Pricope/Getty Images.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Software Sample Participative 10

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. Your web properties include: websites, blogs, wikis, videos, podcasts, social networking profiles, images, applications, badges, and affiliate sites.

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Press Release Discount Content Directory 145

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And what happens as advances in technology constantly change how customers and employees expect to interact with your company? As a provider of cloud-based finance and HR applications designed to help companies change and grow, our customers rightly expect us to lead by example. How technology is changing the way we work.

Technology 8

Technology Company Tools Information 8

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.

Crisis 10

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2019

While spreadsheets served a purpose for managing financials in the past, with how far technology has come in the last decade, you’d be hampering your operation by using Excel over tools like FreshBooks today. QuickBooks, on the other hand, is just one product of many whose parent company, Intuit, divides its time between.

Comparison 10

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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. Expectations of return are minimal at best. Investment complexity precludes standardization.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

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!). chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8