Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s not that they don’t do in-person meetings, but if you can’t get the finance team together in one room one month, you have another option. If the general consensus of the room is that is where some energy is happening – put extra fuel behind it. When someone is sick they can still be connected. That’s a keeper.

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Committee Energy Consensus Brainstorming 71

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

False Consensus Effect Leaders suffering from the false consensus effect overestimate the extent to which others share their opinions and beliefs. A startup founder thinks they can singlehandedly manage all aspects of the business, from marketing to finance, without expert help.

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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 52

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

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.

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Supply Chain Consensus Long-term Politics 22

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 Bond Innovation Incentives 8

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.)

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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.

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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.

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Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 15

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'

Marketing 9

Marketing Innovation Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 9

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.

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Cooper Finance Open-book Risk Management 13

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.).

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Crisis Tversky Levitt Consensus 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 16

Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 16

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.

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Retail Discount Price Advertising 15

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 16

Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 16

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."

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Short-term Long-term Incentives Parcell 14

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.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 15

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.

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Consensus Class Long-term Uncertainty 9

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 16

Management Self-aware Influence Emotional Intelligence 16

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.

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GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 10

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.

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Consensus Finance Commitment Health Care 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The key is bringing your entire team to consensus on consistent brand identity and messaging, and then translating into both powerful owned-content and powerfully communicating it to other stakeholders such as the media to multiply the reach of your content. Content marketing cannot be done by someone in finance that kinda dabbles in writing.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

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

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 15

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 15

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.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

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 14

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 14

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.

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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.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 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 14

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 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.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 11

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

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.

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Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 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 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.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 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.

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Cost Hedge Fraser Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

It's a question that has defied consensus, with valid arguments on both sides of the issue. As we conclude another earnings season, then, it's a good time to consider the advisability of providing earnings guidance. First, let's review the case for guidance.

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CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 14

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 13

Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

After more than 18 months, a dozen and a half summits, multiple rounds of austerity, a trillion dollars of liquidity, and now elections in Greece and France that threaten to overturn the fragile policy consensus in Europe, the Euro-crisis rumbles on.

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Crisis Bond Banking Short-term 15