The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The researchers found that after examining 70 countries between 2005 and 2015, there is a clear link between the quality of institutions in a country and both the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship. Research from the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley underlines this point. Rules of the game.

Succession 86

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 86

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In 2005, he sold USI to Johnson Controls, a Fortune 100 company, and at that point, became CEO of JCI’s Global Workplace Business for the Americas. Wyn has an MBA in finance and marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Real Estate 73

Real Estate Magazine Entrepreneur Advertising 73

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The deep recession in commercial real estate had forced corporations to freeze all marketing budgets. If we had planned properly, we would have raised enough financing to see us through the gestation period of a national publication. Advertising revenues were slow to trickle in. USI needed money to fund its own growth. 500 company.

Real Estate 50

Real Estate Advertising Magazine Finance 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. He named that moment, the Singularity. Will there be a moment when the Singularity arrives in the C-suite?

CEO 65

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 65

Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services,” he wrote, “the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired — the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later. Over the years, a virtuous cycle ensued.

Software 57

Software Venture Capitalist Real Estate Technology 57

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

EY has a consistently received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) since 2005, demonstrating a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The data also helps EY manage its workforce to meet current and future market demands.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. As noted, several high profile deals involving Chinese firms, such as CNOOC's 2005 attempt to purchase Unocal in the U.S., Unfortunately they have been struggling to actually close their deals. billion and $3.0

Due Diligence 18

Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance'

Pharmaceuticals 14

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

Credit Scoring 14

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

IPO 14

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Hence lots of the analytical, linear thinking at GM drove him to distraction; Product Planning analysts in particular: "a department composed of recycled finance types" as he calls them in the book. market, the single biggest problem by a wide margin was Toyota, which gobbled U.S. market: small and mid-car. Outside the U.S.,

Company 15

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. China Economy Finance'

GDP 12

GDP Banking Finance Maturity 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 15

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes.

Long-term 15

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third. And it is not alone.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. ".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth.

Hedge 16

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Making the case for investments that produce social impact as well as market returns is not a discussion most executive directors want to have with their board — or their financial stewards on Wall Street. Large corporations know more about opportunities in Chinese markets than they do about opportunities in US cities.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Fueled by growing demand among entrepreneurs, investors , and consumers , a specialized ecosystem of support has also been emerging around for-benefits, providing tailored legal services , capital markets , management education , technical assistance , performance metrics , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

CEO 15

CEO Incubator Entrepreneur Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Take Claus Moseholm, co-founder of GoViral , a Danish company created in 2005 to harness the then-emerging power of the Internet to deliver advertisers’ video content in viral fashion. In fact, venture capital financing may even be detrimental to your startup’s health. Term sheets and shareholders’ agreements can burden you.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. increased by over $300,000.

Execution 13

Execution P&L CEO COO 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

Brand 9

Brand Globalization Company Development 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. an estimated $100 billion per year. Pessimism rules, but it needn''t be that way.

Transportation 10

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. This is not just good for individuals; it’s good for business. In 2008, TURCK’s health care claim costs were $280.52 per member per month.

Health Care 10

Health Care Cost Morale Company 10

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

Thanks for validating my adoration of Wilder’s Willy Wonka as a metaphor for the best kind of genuine marketing. Wonka is like a slightly more-mad Seth Godin or a slightly less-mad Joker (Alan Moore’s version), trying new ideas constantly and fearlessly, celebrating the capacity to try as much as the results themselves.

Leadership 283

Leadership Idea Generation Open-book BHAG 283

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The job market does not account for all social value. On the other hand, some sectors involve “zero sum” endeavors, in which profits come at the expense of other market participants. Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market. Some spillovers are quite large.

Policies 8

Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Yes, but with some caveats, according to a paper recently published in the Journal of Empirical Finance. The researchers measured performance using Tobin’s Q, which compares a firm’s market valuation to the value of its assets.) decrease in firm value for public companies in the S&P 1500 between 1993 and 2005.

CEO 8

CEO Policies Welch Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

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. Most of our top tech CEOs created value by rolling out earlier breakthrough innovations in a newly high-growth market.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. CEOs from rival firms); conversely not all inside CEOs have it (CEOs promoted from finance). The distinction between current profits and market value is important because market value takes into account future profits, so in principle it captures the long-run returns to R&D.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

The stock market had more than doubled in the previous five years , and the unemployment rate was at a 30-year low. For instance, people who entered adulthood during economic depressions tend to be attuned to economic and national security throughout their adult lives , and particularly cautious with their personal and professional finances.

Ethics 8

Ethics CEO Career Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

By 2005, Kodak ranked No. It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. 4 in the inkjet-printer market, where it joined the likes of HP, Lexmark, and Canon. It made huge investments in new technology, new plant, and new personnel.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

When a Walmart lawyer in Mexico blew the whistle in 2005, senior officers both in Mexico and in the United States allegedly stopped two different efforts by other Walmart employees at headquarters to conduct a thorough and independent inquiry. This step aims to bring appropriate expertise (e.g.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8