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MAY 2, 2024

Image: Google Do Google Layoffs Suggest They Might Start Decentralizing Resources from the U.S.? Earlier this year, CFO Ruth Porat announced layoffs at Google’s finance department and restructuring efforts there as they moved to keep up with the shifting tech world. Why Are Google Job Relocations Taking Place?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > The same applies to trade finance and financial assets, where companies such as Digital Asset Holdings (run by JPMorgan veteran Blythe Masters ), Blockstream, and Chain are trying to revolutionize how assets are issued and traded.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Ignorance may be bliss for some, but ask anyone in commerce or finance, and they will make it abundantly clear: Ignorance is risk. This is a welcome development. Indeed, it has been relatively rare that promoters have sold cryptocurrencies just so the buyer can purchase a good or service on a fully developed network.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Beijing-based telecom security company NQ Mobile has gone so far as to create a separate headquarters in Texas for its developed-market business, managed by an American co-CEO and entirely comprised of American employees. An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Finally, in 1954, Kenneth Arrow, at Stanford, and Gerard Debreu, at the Cowles Commission at Yale, developed the canonical "general-equilibrium" model , for which they later won the Nobel Prize. General-equilibrium theory, as it developed in the 1960s and 1970s, suggests that economies are more like fighter jets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Insightfully, the United Nations is aiming to change this, with UN Sustainable Development Goal #16 , Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, aiming to “provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030.” They are more exposed to corruption and crime, including people trafficking and slavery. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Developed alongside business magnate Nandan Nilekani, “ the biggest social project on the planet ” relies on community-operated Common Service Centers (CSCs) and local entrepreneurs to deliver programs and share in the profits. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

In HR (or finance or IT), 20% of the professionals are exceptional, adding value that helps organizations move forward, 20% of HR folks are locked into a fixed mindset and lack either competence or commitment to deliver real value, and 60% are in the middle. This is both unfair and simplistic. It ignores what I call the 20-60-20 rule.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Where once you could reexamine the organization's model ( the how ) every few years to support the rest of the business ( the what ), reinventing the how becomes its own muscle to develop. How does this lead to disruption?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

CEOs from rival firms); conversely not all inside CEOs have it (CEOs promoted from finance). Instead of decentralizing R&D, recentralize it. One of the changes we learned outside CEOs make is decentralizing R&D. Instead of over-focusing on “development,” shift the portfolio back toward “research.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Sustainability programs are decentralized, so social and environmental initiatives are not viewed as top-down directives but are embedded in the routine activities of other functions. finance, mineral processing, geology). They leverage their discretion to successfully collaborate with internal (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. To help develop a cleantech industry, the government should spend its money on fully incubated business models that have proven the ability to create a profit and that have demonstrated sustainable competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

But these decentralized households can easily travel to the major cities for unique shopping and restaurant options. First, real estate developers respond by building new housing towers in close proximity to the new public transit stops. Effect 2: dispersed population. What other changes can these lower tier cities expect?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Banks have developed smartphone apps to enable instant deposits and other forms of self-service—both delighting customers and also allowing branch staff to concentrate less on routine transactions and more on providing the higher-touch personal services their best customers value.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. When Satoshi later developed an interest in video games, he saw a way to recreate his childhood experience of catching and collecting elusive creatures. It is formed at conception and does not change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The group of companies held intensive discussions with stakeholders and experts to develop a collective understanding of the challenge and potential solutions. They formed national task forces to accelerate the development of specific commodities or geographic regions. Governments improved key policies and infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Consequently, the finance group, the risk organization, and the nonexecutive directors do most of this work. The finance group scrutinizes capital requests. Develop internal learning and reflection systems.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Policies relating to infrastructure development, land and labor, healthcare, and transport fall under the purview of the states—as do most licensing and permitting. Cultural variations are important.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Though not yet confirmed, Zika is suspected of causing microcephaly — babies born with small heads and abnormal brain development — and paralysis in adults. This approach would benefit from the accelerated development of easy-to-use, point-of-care diagnostics for Zika.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance. The digital nature of the ledger means that blockchain transactions can be tied to computational logic and in essence programmed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance the growth of those firms. A decentralized political system in which states compete. Will America maintain these advantages?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

These broad components were: Citizens/People Components: the four components in this category are: inclusivity, environment and quality of life, state of talent and the human condition, talent development. Its e-solutions have resulted in high levels of government transparency and easy access to data and public services.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Marketing is not a part-time endeavor, and if you don’t have a qualified C-level marketing executive leading the charge, don’t just trust things to the most vocal staff member.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Mission-oriented thinking could also be used to develop technology roadmaps for the 17 sustainable development goals. In Silicon Valley, what was critical was the decentralized network of intelligent public organizations that facilitated feedback loops throughout the whole innovation chain. billion in public support.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Similarly, directors of power companies need to understand how advances in energy storage and information technology will accelerate development of micro-grids and the decentralization of the electric grid. Boards are not the only ones under pressure.

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