Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

NO NEWS, NO WEATHER, NO POLITICS, NO RELIGION, or anything negative about people or things. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Talk fashion. Talk books. Talk movies. Talk culture. Talk passion. Talk ideas. Talk social media. Ask questions that allow you to ask more questions. HOW TO SAY IT: Talk positive.

Customer Loyalty 51

Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Travel Seminar 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. consumers and certainly fueled some of the frustration that drives the current political climate in America. Nor does political rebellion serve companies or their shareholders well.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. of revenue.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. 6) Promote a sharing culture though HR politics (Share: passion, reward, purpose, tasks and ideas). Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

Would-be owners required both political and financial capital, which few had in equal measure. 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. This was all done with good intentions. Both crises proved it’s not.

Insurance 51

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 51

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Even if investors can now reach entrepreneurs anywhere, the aforementioned ‘home bias’ is a natural occurrence in the public and private securities markets. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Resource Management Warning Flag 3 – Marginalizing Employee Contributions. All rights reserved.

Company 51

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 51

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

Each organization exists within a rich and ever-evolving set of social, economic, political, cultural, and institutional environments. For example, in the ‘70s, IBM was convinced that the real profits in the personal-computer (PC) market would come from the manufacture of hardware. No business is an island. Consider leaving a comment!

Chief Executive Officer 51

Chief Executive Officer Competitive Advantage Open-book Analysis 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian

Policies 9

Policies Supply Chain Politics Long-term 9

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, the research also highlights the significance of diverse educational, industrial, and organizational backgrounds among managers and board members in fostering innovation in research and development (R&D), thereby generating both economic and social value. ”

Diversity 115

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 115

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Boards of directors of global corporations will increasingly face strategic choices and capital allocation decisions framed by mounting geo-political risks. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. What builds management perspectives? Is there just one?

Planning 8

Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Mario Draghi (who replaced Claude Trichet as ECB president) took interest rates down to zero and after difficult political negotiations, put a QE plan in place by 2015. But one cannot forget that policy in the Euro area is complex and subject to political constraints. Why did the Euro area get its macroeconomic policies so wrong?

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba’s economy got a jolt in December 2014, when U.S.-Cuban There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. They don’t know how to market them effectively. Cuban ties were restored. But, oddly, U.S.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Human Capital Tourism Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Modern Servant Leader

JULY 2, 2024

Redd 2014 Servant Leadership Define Your Destiny Self-Awareness Balance Delivering Happiness In this, his first audiobook, Tony Hsieh - the widely admired CEO of Zappos, the online shoe retailer - explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of employees, customers, vendors, and backers.

Library 100

Library Leadership Greenleaf Servant Leader 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. ” But it’s far from moneyball when it comes to event marketing. But it needn’t be that way.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Using the same formula, Apple’s intangible assets in 2014 were $280 billion — or almost twice the value of its 2015 calculation.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Politics, perhaps — but the Obama administration has not been any more active in stopping mergers than previous administrations. A careful look at what happened to these deals leads to three lessons for managers contemplating mergers in the future. And several have been stopped dead in their tracks. And they knew it.

Guidelines 8

Guidelines Long-term Short-term Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. Procter & Gamble provides another example. Lawrence A.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. In both cases, the two goods (car and real estate) are given value-creating potential through a process of market fragmentation and consumer empowerment.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Of course, people do use existing comms and social software to manage quality information and close relationships — the beloved chat app Slack is widely used by couples and families, for example. But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships. Both launched in 2014.).

Media 10

Media Quality Metrics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

A combination of facial analysis, voice pattern analysis, and deep learning can already decode human emotions for market research and political polling purposes. Targeted emotional learning systems are also being tested for group settings, such as by analyzing the emotions of students for teachers , or workers for managers.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

But despite perceptions of entrenched corruption, economic turbulence, and political risk, many big firms have invested and maintained a presence in the country. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market. How to create growth in a stagnating market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Management is usually shocked to find the degree of differences that exist between their two, soon to be merged, organizations — and too few actively consider these integration challenges before the deal. While this may sound like common sense, the reasons for ignoring this due diligence step are numerous.

Due Diligence 11

Due Diligence Company Stakeholder Analysis Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

And, for reasons explained below, ARG tends to be significantly higher than EFV, especially when the stock market is booming. Especially when the stock market is on the rise, total ARG compensation tends to be much higher than total EFV compensation. million (57% from stock-based pay). million (70% from stock-based pay).

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. .” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Traditionally, it has been government’s role to provide equality of opportunity (particularly through education), an effective safety net, and social, political, and economic stability. These are the seven areas: 1. Shape the next wave of globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. Emerging markets are often overlooked in these conversations, and they bring up a host of different issues.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 10

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. According to another study, U.S. These opinions matter.

Banking 9

Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The CWLP survey found that 65% of educated Brazilian women view the public sector as very desirable to work for, head and shoulders above their counterparts in other BRIC markets. The most important is being polite, making it all the more difficult to push ahead. based multinational.

Survey 15

Survey Education Competitive Advantage Human Capital 15