Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. An unfortunate reality of many African economies is that only a tiny fraction of the population participates in the formal economy. A realistic approach to making money might strike some as humdrum. Top of the Pyramid.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Digital platforms are grease for the flywheel, facilitating the rapid exchange of value between network participants at near-zero marginal cost. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. Build it yourself.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Renaissance Technologies and other, even more secretive investment funds are the management models here. Audit software and human monitors were soon installed to assure compliance. They typically become the punching bags and shock absorbers for both sides.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

When acclaimed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones revealed his opinion that women become much less effective as stock traders or investors once they have children, he was, in a sense, suggesting that the distraction of motherhood—a distinctly feminine condition—exceeds that of other attention-siphoning activities.

Presenteeism 8

Presenteeism Hedge Report Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The rhymes may be about social patterns, the impact of technology, or how nations tend to adapt. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Study History. Each future is real.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. With these, you actually participate in the upside of your customers, and therefore your business grows with them. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

People feel envy and regret they haven’t participated. And a former Fama PhD student, hedge fund manager Cliff Asness, argued at the time that even if his professor was right about the dot-coms, there clearly was a bubble in the equity of already established, already profitable tech companies. It’s a sea change, not a bubble.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Be sure your assessment tools are thorough, accurate, and clear, so that participants won’t feel like their time has been wasted. Externally, examine societal trends, political implications, technological advancements, and competitive forces.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Entrepreneurship Finance Technology'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Finance Hedge Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8