The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Corporate financing should be of a form and duration that allows companies to fund more engaged and long-term investment in their purposes. Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation.

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Kaplan Report Metrics Loyalty 85

HR Digest

MARCH 9, 2020

Kaplan Professionals, an HR firm that assesses, designs and implements innovative learning solutions, conducted a three-year extended Situational Judgement Assessments of 4,500 employees at global tech firms and identified five key workplace findings. “In

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Team Kaplan Attrition Survey 69

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Some companies and leaders have experienced the inherent value of uncertainty and surprise, and actually use it to out-innovate the competition: Intuit’s flagship product was Quicken, the leading software program for managing home finances.

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Uncertainty Meyer How To Disruptive Innovation 164

LDRLB

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s usually an individual endeavor focused on fitness, friendships, or finances. The New Year brings about resolutions to redefine the status quo. When it comes to business, great things can also happen when we apply the catalytic energy of the New Year to our teams and organizations.

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Strategy Leadership Innovation Uncertainty 160

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Kaplan put it when I interviewed him , "The health care sector just kind of split off from the rest of any other kind of sector" when it comes to accounting. And the health care sector is an industry no other industry should want to be tethered to. As HBS professor Robert S.

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 22

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Chicago’s Steve Kaplan’s findings on the difference that managers can make are even more sobering. He studied the relative importance of management teams in 106 venture capital-financed firms from early business plan to IPO. Of course, in a highly competitive world, even a slim advantage is better than a coin-toss.

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Intangible Assets Competitive Advantage 8