Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Despite its influence in popularizing ESG investing, the topic remains controversial with mixed academic consensus and political debate in the U.S. It demonstrated that focusing on financially material ESG (environmental, social, and governance) factors positively impacts portfolio returns and shareholder value.

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Consensus Long-term Politics 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Great investments are both non-consensus and correct, and examining the valuation process shows that consensus tends to coalesce differently around each type of innovation. Without theory to tell us how the rules are changing, many tools of management and finance seem to break down. Disruptive innovation Finance'

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

They need education, health care, decent wages, access to finance. The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), convening this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is one of several important milestones toward a new international consensus on eliminating extreme poverty and hunger. We are investing.

Consensus 8

Consensus Finance Commitment Health Care 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. Most people don’t have to agree with you 100% of the time, but they do need to trust you 100% of the time. Trust cannot exist where leaders are fickle, inconsistent, indecisive, or display a lack of character.

Blog 419

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

After some investigating, they discovered that their fragmented, geographically dispersed matrix structure made it very difficult for the program managers to coordinate efforts across functions, keep everyone focused on the cost and delivery goals, and get people to reach consensus. This was delaying product production.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Finance and business executives often joke that the word blockchain placed at the end of the company name is enough to increase the share price of any entity at least twofold. Every participant in the transaction must agree on the documents, which will not become valid until there is a consensus.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Document Participative 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

This instability meant that Japan was unable to iron out a national consensus on its reform plan, or implement reforms in the long run. Even though the Japanese government dared to take deficit financing in order to boost the economy, it mostly injected money into building infrastructure, but didn’t expand spending on welfare much.

Consensus 8

Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Only about 18% of interlocks were international in 1976, and most of those were transatlantic links in finance and energy — two of the first industries to begin globalizing. Shell’s Board Interlocks, 1976.

Crisis 8

Crisis Globalization Banking Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Going forward, I hope that the current experiment in consensus building among the two major parties will succeed and will serve as a prototype for coalition governments in Greece in the future. And voters seem to understand that they face a long period of austerity, volatility, and a substantially lower standard of living.

Crisis 15

Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. On the theoretical side, there seems to be much less consensus than there was 50 years ago about what rational behavior under uncertainty even looks like. Economy Finance Risk management' In macroeconomics, too. Maybe that’s just me.

Cooper 10

Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Download this pdf for an executive summary, or login here for the full report.)

Cost of Capital 14

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

As the treasury manager in Verizon's corporate finance department, he saw the research as an opportunity to gain valuable benchmarking information about how the CAPM is currently being used by his fellow practitioners. One of the architects of the survey, Mark Scott, is also one of its beneficiaries.

CAPM 15

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. Hospitals must engage their clinicians in evidence-based reviews of technology purchases, achieve consensus across the medical staff, and then use their considerable economic leverage to lower procurement prices. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Two recommendations I've gotten from Harvard government professor Dan Carpenter : Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance , by Sociologist Greta Krippner, and The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy , by political scientists Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli.).

Tversky 12

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Walmart, for instance, is concerned about its customers' finances, while high-end retailer Saks Fifth Avenue is selling luxury items at full-price and recently reported a 5.8% The resulting "have and have not" economy is shaping each retailer's pricing strategy. gain in same store sales.

Retail 15

Retail Discount Price Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

When Bill in Finance generates his monthly Top Line report, Craig in Marketing can leave a comment on the "Revenue" column inquiring, "Is this billed revenue or booked revenue?" — and come to a consensus-based decision. thus inviting Bill to annotate his report.

Business Intelligence 15

Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. They have to in order to communicate and to reach consensus with others who may not share the same experiences or perspectives.

Power 12

Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

At the moment, there seems to be little consensus on just how the two differ and which differences matter most. and the transfer of business risk from "too big to fail" institutions to taxpayers, leading to a "heads I win, tails you lose" relationship between the finance and the rest of the economy. Recent scrutiny of the U.S.

How To 8

How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. He's a man of strong opinions, generally backed up by lots and lots of research. Last year I got to edit his book, Winning Investors Over , and an accompanying HBR article, " How to Win Investors Over."

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Incentives Parcell 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

You start by using analysts' reports and other sources to gauge the consensus expectations for value drivers — sales growth, operating profit margins, cost of capital and other factors that determine cash flows. Even today, twenty-five years later, a well-executed market-signals analysis provides management with a great deal of insight.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S. This rising generation reflects and reinforces China's growing nationalism. The young in the U.S.,

Globalization 15

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Integrating comprehensive services will require significant changes in culture, infrastructure, training, regulation, and financing. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.

Health Care 11

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. per share by nearly a dime.

Christensen 14

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Organizations that entered when VC fundings were booming were increasingly likely to fail, and those financed in a VC funding boom were unlikely to make it to an IPO. The loners, those willing to go against the consensus, are anything but predictable. Nonconformist thinking has the best potential for genius.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

And the consensus among economists has for decades been that commodity speculation clearly serves a useful purpose — so more of it can''t hurt, right? Ethics Finance Global business' Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks.

Cost 8

Cost Hedge Fraser Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

For example, Frank was a highly-skilled finance manager who advanced quickly early in his career based on his technical knowledge and desire for results. Talented managers often get frustrated by their pace of career advancement, sign on with a new company, and run into the same problems that were an obstacle in their prior organization.

Career 15

Career Company Consensus Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Influence and conflict management capabilities help leaders to build consensus around a common purpose and deliver the collaborative solutions that the matrix requires. Give mid-level leaders a chance to take on advisory roles outside of line management in functions such as strategy, HR or finance.

Management 15

Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Interestingly, individuals working in customer service, sales, production, logistics and R&D were more likely to feel that bureaucracy was growing than those working in functions like HR, finance, planning, purchasing, and administration. As you ponder that question, we should note that there was one area of consensus.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields. Management was open to perspectives that were different from the internal consensus. We received 236 responses from 21 industries in U.S. They had an average of 6.3

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company CAPEX Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

In the 1990s, the consensus seemed to be that for the U.S. Economy Finance Research' But they also reported a significantly smaller dropoff in median growth, and their subsequent analyses, as well as the Herndon-Ash-Pollin rework of their data, similarly show a dropoff but not a dramatic inflection point.

GDP 9

GDP Bond Sample Sharpe 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

When cross referenced with data purchased from a third-party finance app that knows the same individual’s payment card spending habits at the local bar, suddenly you can see the value of behavioral biometrics to the liquor, beer, and wine industry.

Crisis 9

Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

So when Amazon reports below-consensus earnings, as it did Tuesday, and the share price jumps, as it did after-hours Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, the reaction isn't quite the puzzle it seems. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The company continued to operate day-to-day, but since the partnership required consensus, all major decisions were postponed. There’s a risk, however, of under-funding the core business to finance the outside investments. Questions of entry to the partnership became paramount.

Operations 8

Operations Competitive Advantage Consensus Policies 8

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. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made.

Globalization 13

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 13