Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

We don’t stop at interviewing and choosing good candidates; we give them detailed insight into the company’s finances, strategy, individual consultant performance, and implications on compensation so they can make a fully informed decision about whether to join us.

Team 15

Team Organization Management Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Does your organization have a data analytics manager yet? A sustainability manager? In the absence of formal structures, managers in the new roles scout for social and environmental initiatives that enhance the organization’s reputation, but they can put forward only a very limited range of sustainability initiatives.

Positioning 15

Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

They represent content and digital rights management platforms (such as SingularDTV ), distributed venture funds (such as the the DAO , for decentralized autonomous organization), and even new platforms to make investing in ICOs and managing digital assets easy (such as ICONOMI ). ” Others are sure to follow suit.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. More on: Economy , Finance , Global business Join the Discussion | Email/Share Previous Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email.

Banking 18

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 18

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. When HR professionals bring unique insights about talent, leadership, and capability to the senior management dialogue, they add enormous value. This is both unfair and simplistic.

Charan 14

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

As Bitcoin entrepreneur and Circle founder Jeremy Allaire — whose company this morning announced another $17 million in venture capital financing — explained at a panel I moderated Monday at Harvard Business School, there is an appropriate role for regulators to play in ensuring consumer protection. When companies like Mt.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Decentralization Banking Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals? In time, corporations learned to build the administrative and technical infrastructure needed to manage their sprawling operations.

Globalization 11

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

When CEOs lack this expertise, they are more likely to manage R&D “by the numbers,” despite the fact that those numbers are more elusive than those for capital and advertising. CEOs from rival firms); conversely not all inside CEOs have it (CEOs promoted from finance). Instead of decentralizing R&D, recentralize it.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These technologies can be screened for their inherent disruptive potential — that is, their ability to transform existing markets or create new ones by radically simplifying, decentralizing, and lowering the cost of existing solutions. The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

Disruptive Innovation 13

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Decentralized departmental budgets, therefore, lead to considerable under-investment in innovative technologies that create benefits across the entire cycle of care. Not all hospital services would need to be incorporated into this more decentralized structure. Heads of the various service lines/IPUs (e.g.,

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But the decentralization debate was different. Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

For fans of management books, this month marks a big anniversary. It is harder, though, to pinpoint exactly what lessons today’s managers might take from what has been called “the best business book you’ll never read.” A central office kept track of finances and the allocation of resources. Chevrolet sales soared.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 9

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.

Retail 12

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

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. A local, adaptive culture, not just presence, is vital for Chinese brands to make the right decisions overseas.

Brand 9

Brand Globalization Company Development 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. I have seen this manifest itself three ways.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. They reflect a decentralized, de-institutionalized commercial structure that’s now clearly part of the US economy (think of food trucks or Uber).

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This decentralized policymaking, as well as differing priorities among state governments—from rural development to improving infrastructure to attracting investment—have resulted in wide variations in the business landscape across Indian states. This data is publicly available on each state’s website.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It’s very competitive, very decentralized. economy, you’re talking about finance, you’re talking about IT — Apple and Facebook and others. We were high-priced just a year or two ago, but the fracking industry changed that. Also, keep in mind that energy is a relatively small piece of the U.S.

Price 8

Price Energy Constraint Marketing 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Learning-by-Doing Supply Chain 111

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

As a few recent examples, Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, is changing the face of finance as the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network powered by its users with no central authority or intermediaries. It takes a unique mindset to execute them. . Creativity is thinking up new things.

Technology 269

Technology Innovation Levitt Supply Chain 269

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

Company 14

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade. ” Thus a modern market economy is inconceivable without proper identification, because there are no proven holders of property rights.

Document 15

Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

How could decentralized trading move markets to equilibrium if there is only one good? And they lump all diverse individuals into one "representative agent." You can easily build stability into such a model by pure assumption. But it is pure assumption.

Crisis 22

Crisis Decentralization Marketing Engineering 22

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. While management often espouses the notion that good ideas can come from everywhere, in practice there are "thinkers" who create strategies and designated "doers" who execute those strategies. What could you do together?

Christensen 19

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.”

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management. This became the “HP Way,” one of the first examples of empowering employees, decentralizing the organization, and tying pay to performance.

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Some utilities help customers finance, install and maintain their own systems for generating power and heat through solar roof panels. Others help their commercial and industrial customers maintain small, decentralized generating units. Those stories might come from mundane, everyday service.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Decentralization Sample Banking 8

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion.

Blog 303

Blog Marketing Succession Brand 303

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Similar to Ebola, Zika diagnosis currently requires polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a laboratory-based test that needs special equipment and personnel and is, therefore, difficult to scale and decentralize. With Ebola, we tried to manage the epidemic even while many critical questions about the virus remained unanswered.

Crisis 8

Crisis Decentralization System Travel 8

HR Digest

APRIL 14, 2025

He used his severance to fund a coding bootcamp focused on decentralized finance (DeFi). Or take Priya, a project manager who transitioned to a renewable energy startup after her role was cut at a hardware giant. Stories of resilience Consider Mike, an IT specialist laid off from a fintech unicorn.

Industry 93

Industry Decentralization Trends Engineering 93

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.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8