Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2021

While Monero is one of the most well-known coins in the realm of crypto, it may be surprising to some people that the famous privacy-oriented currency started as a humble grassroots movement in 2014. Hence, other open-source developers decided to fork it in 2014, which ultimately led to the birth of Monero.

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Long-term Finance Report Follow-up 103

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office is a good case in point, with the blame placed on access to finance and regulatory hurdles. The study found that the share of entrepreneurs fell by around half between 1985 and 2014, with just 4% of households containing an entrepreneur by the end of the study period.

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering 108

Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It moved along the Gartner Hype Cycle from `The Peak of Inflated Expectations` in 2016 to the `Trough of Disillusionment` in 2018, due to multiple failed projects, and scam ICOs – a way for projects and individuals to raise money in the open (crypto) markets. In 2014 work on Ethereum officially began through a Swiss registered company.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2019

Finance departments in modern-day enterprises have a lot of different tasks that must be handled by various teams. Even though there are various tools available that can easily handle all the tasks in the finance department, choosing that solution is both expensive and not good at all. Meet the Demands of Modern-Day Apps and Tools.

Finance 57

Finance Technology Tools Insurance 57

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. EnableSoft, is engaged in offering game changing software products and services to the business and financial services industry, healthcare and a dozen other markets.

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Software Insurance System Operations 50

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Location has always been vital for startups, both in terms of providing ready access to human capital to help develop the startup’s proposition, but also to provide ready access to a local market to help develop momentum. They examined nearly 2,200 startups who were created between 1990 and 2014.

Biotechnology 49

Biotechnology Human Capital Travel Entrepreneur 49

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor.

Insurance 51

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

If you’re graduating from business school this spring, you might want to be sitting down for this: the job market for recent MBA graduates looks poised to get a lot worse in 2014. First the good news: Hiring of college graduates is expected to increase three percent in 2014, with some sectors doing even better than that.

Marketing 15

Marketing Finance Education Public Relations 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Instead, we should measure and manage behaviors like spending time in markets and designing and executing smart experiments and the values to which employees adhere.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2014

Marketing increasingly must work across boundaries with other functions such as IT, sales, and finance to execute shared decisions. The New Marketing Organization. The Content Marketing Revolution. How We Transformed Marketing at Electrolux. How We Transformed Marketing at Electrolux. An HBR Insight Center.

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Marketing Proposal Finance Video 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

It is generally accepted that efficiency represents the optimal, aspirational state for any market. Efficient markets, which feature many buyers and sellers and perfect information flowing between them, determine the “right price” and hence allocate society’s resources optimally. Think about how markets evolve.

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Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

In the fall of 2014 my colleague Catherine Tucker and I conducted a large-scale experiment at MIT, in which 4,494 undergraduate students were offered access to bitcoin. It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Finance Human resources' And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

One day in December 2014, Sergey, the Russia general manager for a multinational consumer goods company, was up early in the morning, watching the ruble’s value slide by the minute. of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process. Innovation Marketing' About two-thirds were in B2B businesses.).

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Price Productivity Products Simon 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. By 2014, the academy comprised over 3,000 videos on subjects from mathematics to art history. How did Sal Khan finance his venture? Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy.

Bond 15

Bond Education Finance Video 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

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Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive. Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

Ries 14

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The same can be true if you are in an engineering job without the right credentials, or a senior finance job without an MBA or an advanced degree in finance. But excuses like those don't matter in tight job markets where there are plenty of people out there looking for jobs — and with the right credentials for those jobs.

Career 10

Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Sixty-four percent of study participants have vertical sales specialists on their sales force (calling on verticals such as public sector, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, etc.). Sixty-three percent responded that they have specialized inside salespeople that are dedicated to SMB (small to medium business) or mid-market sales.

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Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Of all the generations alive today, millennials are the most willing to trade financial return for greater social impact, according to “ Millennials and Money ,” a 2014 study from Merrill Lynch’s Private Banking and Investment Group. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues' According to another study, U.S.

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Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

After controlling for momentum, stock returns aren’t persistent; for example, if high stock returns in 2014 lead to high satisfaction at the start of 2015, these high stock returns don’t necessarily persist in 2015 – a stock that has done well in 2014 should be equally likely to outperform as underperform in 2015.

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Long-term Marketing Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In an epic September 2014 HBR article, “ Profits Without Prosperity ,” economist William Lazonick blamed buybacks for much of what ails the U.S. He was an aggressive issuer when his stock was highly priced, and an aggressive purchaser when it was priced at a discount to the market. Yes, that’s correct. Is part of it the era?

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Open-book Price Uncertainty Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

This advice, adapted from the book Finance Basics , will help you better understand how to create a useful budget. If you’re the manager of the Moose Head Division at the fictional company Amalgamated Hat Rack, for instance, you might look at the 2014 budget to get ideas about how to increase revenue, cut costs, or both.

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Budgeting Finance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

EPS 14

EPS Innovation Incentives Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

According to the annual 2014 Youth Entrepreneurship Study conducted by YEC and Buzz Marketing Group, 81 percent of non-self-employed individuals believe they will be a business owner or self-employed at some point because of the new economy.

Education 13

Education Long-term Learning-by-Doing Mentor 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

Illicit outflows from Africa totaled $69 billion in 2014. They need infrastructure, starting with the roads that will take them to school or market, as well as electrification, water and sanitation systems. They need education, health care, decent wages, access to finance. But there are also things that money can’t buy.

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Consensus Finance Commitment Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

If the public sector is to realize the full potential of digital technology to transform public finances and even kickstart national economic growth, governments will have to move beyond streamlining services and cutting red-tape for entrepreneurs. The Singaporean economy’s growth rate went from 6.2% in 2011 to 2.9%

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. consumers are just being introduced to Apple Pay, mobile money services like MPesa and MTN Money have been flourishing in African markets. But the possibilities for ecommerce and consumer marketing are enormous.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology. times Vormetric’s sales.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8