Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Roger Martin , former dean of the Rotman School of Management, on why talent’s powerful economic position is unsustainable.?. Compensation Economy Finance' Download this podcast.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The increasing inequality between companies is sharpest in finance, insurance, and real estate, followed by communications. So rising inequality is less about every CEO getting paid more than it is about the top finance executives leaving their peers in the dust. And it is most pronounced for the highest paid workers. Making the top 0.1%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Back in 2008, Steve Strogatz and I were interested in sports, not the world of finance. What's more, those streaks were still made by the skillful, such giants as Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. Are these streaks more frequent, longer, and generally more impressive than what probability would have us believe? You can read the paper here.).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs. Senior Management & the Board of Directors. Finance Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Susan Wojcicki (YouTube) asks managers for updates on their numbers around diversity. And many diversity programs fail.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Lafley, Roger L. Lafley and Roger Martin — get to the heart of strategy, explaining what it's for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. But managing and communicating with people from other cultures is an essential skill today. Strategy is not complex. But it is hard.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. A paper reporting on that research , co-authored by Johann Peter Murmann, is forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

With a PhD in molecular biology from Columbia University, Roger had published a paper in Nature and was pursuing a promising career as an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School. In fact, during that first year, Roger’s colleagues were incredulous. That was a decade ago. Was he really leaving?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, as Jean Rogers, the Executive Director of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), points out in a Greenbiz blog , "It''s no surprise that banks and financial sectors are the institutions least trusted by U.S. Finance Sustainability SASB' environmental, social, and governance — or ESG) performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. And short-term numbers at that. Embrace your organization’s humanity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. Her request was not granted, and not long after, she was written up for an unrelated and trivial infraction.

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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. Thinking about how to influence the evolving global rules may seem very far from the daily pressures of managing one's company.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

FOX News Chairman Roger Ailes was reported to have received an exit package worth $40 million after being ousted from his job amid sexual harassment claims. The junk bond market made financing large takeovers possible and even the biggest among the Fortune 500 firms were no longer safe from a forced acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

They're deeply broken, and throwing money at broken institutions doesn't fix them — it does the very opposite: it entrenches them, shores them up, fortifies them against the future.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

As a leader in his company, Bud used what he called “Management by Wandering Around” (MBWA), where he’d stop into offices and ask the opinions of employees, clients, and others to gather insights about his organization and clients.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Other telecoms are offering solutions such as smart parking and waste management systems. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. The movement to make cities smarter is transforming municipal governments worldwide.

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