Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

To achieve growth, economies the world over rely on small businesses to create jobs, increase competition and spur innovation. In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%). by Symantec Corporation.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Casey is one of the most innovative church leaders I know. Date: March 15, 2012. Free Online Conference Focused on Church Finances. This is a guest post by my friend Casey Graham. He is passionate about Kingdom building and helping those who desire to Kingdom build. Make a commitment to be a better preacher. Are you there?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." It drives hard work, innovation, and the success of the capitalist system. You can make a lot of money in finance doing things that are bound blow up in someone's face a few years down the road. The largest U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

Both were defined by financial innovations that seemed to defy the natural law of risk and reward, by promising a high yield and low risk. . “It’s a new financial world on the verge of a complete reorganization,” said Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Equity Markets in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. How the science of attention blindness can help you improve your innovative thinking. If you're not failing every now and then, you're probably not advancing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. National competitiveness Finance & Accounting Research & development'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Politically, this means the focus must shift from simply supporting clean energy (as, for example, the ethanol subsidies did) to creating a fair competitive environment that levels the playing field and rewards innovators who create the cleaner, cheaper, more reliable alternative energy sources and technologies. particularly in China.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. The result : by late March 2012, Draw Something had 15 million daily players and was the Apple AppStore's #1 word game in 84 countries. Rapid Innovation/Move-to-Market Cycles.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. A third signal is that health care financing is testing these pathways too. What Business Are We In? The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. bankruptcy court.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After all, the legislation, passed in 2012 but stuck in SEC rule making until now, was intended to boost America’s entrepreneurial economy. New, growth-hungry businesses are disproportionately likely to innovate and to create jobs. Still, startup finance is something the American economy does comparatively well.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I recently published research from the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project , comparing Wharton’s Classes of 1992 and 2012. It’s worth noting that these percentages are essentially the same for both men and women, both in 1992 and in 2012. mean at the time — the average 2012 graduate planned to have only 1.7.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

According to Pew Internet , 55 percent of Americans said they''d used a mobile device to access the internet in 2012. Similarly, 45 percent of young adults aged 18-29 reported in 2012 that they mostly go online with a mobile device. Internal data from some finance, healthcare, and travel providers show similar mobile-only usage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms. Narrowly focused.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

There was no time to raise the capital we needed to finance the events' annual cash flow needs. On August 23, 2012, I walked into our headquarters — a spectacularly creative facility that we had just moved into a few months earlier. The 3-Days were 75% of our business. It was like McDonald's losing the hamburger.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Not many would associate innovation with large, service-oriented nonprofits with decades of history. and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

While much of Washington grapples with a handful of newly-minted Supreme Court decisions focused on social and campaign finance reform, three largely overlooked court decisions signal a much larger tidal wave of change ahead for the tech community. The turning point for tech began in 2012 with United States v. Roberts Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

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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. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. It isn’t only the branded pundits who are neglecting these issues.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. The second company is Fiat Chrysler, which introduced the Dodge Dart compact in 2012 with great fanfare, and even greater expectations. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

While there's no minimizing this complex dynamic, a new research report to be released next week from the Center for Talent Innovation reveals surprising news: India's women professionals are realizing their career ambitions remarkably well. That the story is so markedly different in India is due to the economic dynamo that women help power.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

A 2012 industry survey asked top hospital leaders (CEOs, COOs, and others) what was necessary to improve the patient experience. Two, leadership rounds are an important means of exposing non-medical leaders in finance, operations, and other areas of the hospitals to the front lines of patient care. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Many people, including quite a few U.S. But was it? But limiting the downside does not mean inhibiting risk-taking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In 2012, Congress passed legislation to create a new pathway by which potential “breakthrough” drugs could receive expedited approval, financed by new user fees on the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. The finance team brought its scenario modeling tools to bear.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance' This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. In contrast, companies with a long-term orientation are rewarded with a lower cost of capital, which allows them to afford more innovation—a virtuous cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. In a 2012 study , Notre Dame researchers found that green buildings saved money and increased revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Advances in machine learning have led to innovations ranging from facial recognition software to self-driving cars. We found that firms tend to choose directors who are much more likely to be male, have a large network, have a lot of board experience, currently serve on more boards, and have a finance background. Could technology help?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. In late 2012 Geisinger initiated ProvenCare Lumbar Spine.

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