Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

In our sample, about 20% of CEOs in the 1980s had an MBA, and throughout the 1980s and the 1990s the percentage steadily increased to 33%, where it remained during the 2000s. Despite the general trend across schools toward becoming more finance-oriented, there could have been considerable variation in what’s taught.

Influence 13

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

As banks rush to digitize their operations , many have found that closing their local branches can help maintain a high return on an otherwise pricy transformation. It turns out that women entrepreneurs who seek to finance their ventures using bank financing are increasingly forced to find solutions elsewhere.

Banking 8

Banking Entrepreneur Finance Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

There was quite a range, though: the youngest in our sample was 32 years old when he became COO, while the oldest three took office at the age of 58. The COOs in our sample had worked in the same company for 12 years, on average, before their appointment. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

COO 14

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The survey methods stratified firms by industry, age, and size so that our sample reflects the characteristics of businesses in the region. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. The women in my sample were asked to think back on two defining career moments that best prepared them to advance. How People Get Ahead.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

To test the reliability of your scores, answer the following questions: Is your sample controlled and stable? Sample variations can generate huge swings in scores and feedback. In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period. Don't do that! So trust, but verify.

Incentives 12

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. But it turned out that the analysts had selected a biased sample of older cars with higher-than-average maintenance costs among cars of the same age.

Technology 8

Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. That''s 72 million jobs just from this small sample. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

Globalization 14

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. “Ahmed has promised samples for the new line on the Clarkson account, but his order exceeds the limits accounting set, so we need Damon’s signoff, and he won’t give it.”

Case Study 14

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Of all the originating organizations that appeared in our sample of career histories, TFA appeared the most frequently - about 15% of the ventures had at least one founder who worked for TFA at some point.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

We conducted an investigation of 2,000 entrepreneurs across 950 randomly-sampled startups based predominantly in the U.S., Although disrupters and builders in our Crunchbase sample averaged comparable FTE counts, they had significantly different employee tenure rates. employees), and FTE start and end dates (average of 2.5

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Entrepreneur Sample Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Two coders manually assessed if a startup’s profiles did or did not articulate a vision to fundamentally change its industry, disrupt the industry’s existing power structures, or alter the way the industry operates. The venture was taken from our Israeli sample and was identical in both experimental conditions.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Software Sample Participative 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have algorithms for recommender systems, merchandise buying, inventory management, relationship management, logistics, operations — we even have algorithms for designing clothes! They want to see how their new algorithm performs in real life, so they expose it to a small sample of clients in an experiment.

Learning-by-Doing 10

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Fueled by passion and purpose, they produced and tested foundation samples on their own time. More specifically, they employ a diverse combination of capabilities to solve problems that aren’t being addressed by organizations as part of their everyday operations. Atis created a rich ecosystem around her idea.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. Decisions either worked out or they didn't; given the small sample size it was impossible to test what the true probabilities were.

Management 12

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Some of the most influential papers from the 1970s featured simple correlations and occasional regressions on cross-sectional data for modest samples, any of which might be rejected out of hand today. Social life and the operation of organizations increasingly leave more or less permanent data traces, like the contrails left by jets.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. Collectively, our sample accounts for about 60%–65% of total U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

But do CEOs also affect how their employees make choices in areas not directly related to firm operations, such as politics? Note that in this sample the overwhelming majority of CEOs (174 out of 197) supported Romney. The total amount of contributions was $317 million, out of which $286 million (or 90%) were contributed by employees.

Politics 8

Politics CEO Sample Influence 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2019

While that number may seem inspiring, it’s important to note that the vast majority of those businesses will be forced to cease operations or subsidize them with other means of employment. As an added bonus, sampling FreshBooks is 100% free! Every month, half a million people become entrepreneurs.

Comparison 10

Comparison Sample Tools Operations 10

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 difference for the user is that the space it exists in is elsewhere, generally on server farms and data centers owned and operated by multinationals, and you usually access it over the Internet.

Ethics 11

Ethics Article Analysis Objective 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of charitable donations, artistic projects, or cool product development in exchange for samples or royalties, can work and has worked. I have reviewed many of the more talked-about equity crowdfunding sites, including some that are operative in the UK and Europe. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

But affiliation doesn’t guarantee enthusiasm, as this sample of survey comments reveals: “On sabbatical from the Democratic party”; “Republican, unless they keep acting like goofballs”; and “Independent (especially this year!). We did not find any notable differences by age group or education.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8