Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Rajamannar involved finance early. To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization. Inside Intel. The result has been transformational.

Finance 11

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 11

Chris Brady

JANUARY 2, 2011

" The term itself deserves the quotes thus employed in the previous sentence because it conjures in people's minds many different definitions. Kings from just a few short generations ago did not live as well as the lower income brackets do today. I know, I know. I understand how crushing financial pressure can be.

Rogers 124

Rogers Short-term Blog Letter 124

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist. Strategic judgment.

CEO 15

CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

And short-term numbers at that. Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

Levitt 10

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

It is, in short, about you and I, and the places we seek for ourselves in the world. Let me couch this for you in the pedestrian terms of financial hydraulics — the tawdry terms which seem to substitute for thinking in what's become of our thin, shallow economic and political discourse. Who authors the destiny of nations?

Price 13

Price Short-term Proposal System 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Back in 2008, Steve Strogatz and I were interested in sports, not the world of finance. What's more, those streaks were still made by the skillful, such giants as Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. We looked at the length of streaks for all these mutual funds in terms of how many years they outperformed the S&P 500.

Management 13

Management Fashion Long-term Sports 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. Her request was not granted, and not long after, she was written up for an unrelated and trivial infraction.

Report 9

Report Long-term Training Short-term 9