Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Ask a true business strategist to help you to determine which consultants are needed, draft the requests for proposals, evaluate credentials and recommend contracting options. Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity. Understand what your company really needs and why.

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited.

Price 17

Price Short-term Proposal System 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Agricultural economist Holbrook Working proposed at the time that this presented the opportunity for a natural experiment: if onion prices were more volatile in the absence of futures trading, then the trading probably served a useful economic purpose. Ethics Finance Global business' Speculation is, on balance, a good thing.

Cost 9

Cost Hedge Fraser Price 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., A needed a pproach.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

.” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. This work will likely become even more important as less-transparent algorithms like deep learning become more common.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Sign up for a new cross-company initiative or propose taking something off your boss’s plate,” suggests Dillon. Ethics Feature. Buckle down on your finances. Neglect your finances so that when you want to make a change, you don’t feel able to. Case study #2: Get your finances in order.

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Ethics Finance'

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from healthcare and government to agriculture and finance. The first four buckets roughly correspond to key steps in the data science hierarchy of needs, as recently proposed by Monica Rogati. Insight Center. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Sponsored by Splunk.

Ethics 14

Ethics Article Analysis Objective 14