The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The study analyzed a representative sample of 310 companies from the S&P 500 index that maintained an active presence on LinkedIn, spanning 99 sectors and eight overarching categories including services, basic materials, consumer goods, finance, healthcare, industrial goods, technology, and utilities.

Leadership 114

Leadership Content Media Audience 114

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. The most simple give-away can express “the Top Ten Ways to…&# this gives constituents more value than the usual unimaginative gadgets, key chains, mugs, etc. Any side-door approach is going to take time and research.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. 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

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

Finance 8

Finance Insurance Career Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? ” Finance is less important. Juan Díaz-faes for HBR.

Engineering 15

Engineering Finance Survey Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Further analysis confirms that this trend is not just due to acquisitions; the companies are delisted sooner even when the sample is constricted only to those delisted for financial troubles. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

IPO 14

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. without any compliance process or technology in place.". The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant. 132 characters for Goldman; one giant leap for the Twitterverse.

Compliance 17

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Note: the Softchoice survey also measured workers over the age of 65 and HR professionals, but the sample sizes for those segments were quite small so I’ve excluded those data sets here. Generational issues Information & technology' Or do you just assume that if the hackers want to get you, they will?

Document 14

Document Survey Download Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And what happens as advances in technology constantly change how customers and employees expect to interact with your company? As a provider of cloud-based finance and HR applications designed to help companies change and grow, our customers rightly expect us to lead by example. How technology is changing the way we work.

Technology 8

Technology Company Tools Information 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

JANUARY 26, 2011

Sample stocks in the ETF are the 100 companies which have the highest social contribution per share, and they are selected from a larger sample of about 300 companies that release their social responsibility reports and reassessed annually. Going further, the SSE raised 2.8

Long-term 15

Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 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 15

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The other CEOs in our sample didn’t directly oversee breakthrough innovation. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new product or technology sells better to all stakeholders if people can be persuaded that it will disrupt the status quo. The venture was taken from our Israeli sample and was identical in both experimental conditions. That, at least, is what the hype around disruption would have you believe.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Software Sample Participative 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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. Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc. This way the data scientist focuses more on driving business value through testing and learning, and less on technology.

Learning-by-Doing 14

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. Our sample population is based on companies which are listed on the NASDAQ, NYSE or FTSE 100 and have at least one active twitter account. The algorithm is able to infer gender based on language.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We found that over 10% of the people in our sample reported working in a job field that did not match their field of education. Over 30% of the people in our sample reported that their job was only somewhat related to their field of study. Two results were especially surprising and offer important insights.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Engineering Sample Education 8

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 am referring only to equity crowdfunding. Crowdfunding of debt can work.

Due Diligence 16

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 16

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. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing. Our data include about 950 businesses.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

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!).

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. There’s a great irony when you consider that the “Big Three” cities for entrepreneurship — San Francisco/San Jose, Boston, and New York — are some of the most difficult places in the U.S.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

statistic is an equally-weighted average of the plans in the PSCA sample, and it doesn’t take into account the fact that there are more participants in large plans, and large plans are more than twice as likely to offer the Save More Tomorrow program than small plans. Using the latest Plan Sponsor Council of America data, 22.8%

Tools 14

Tools Participative Planning Education 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Here’s a sampling of what participants said about each of the threats they identified: The instability of the financial system. “All this is fine if you don’t have a very severe economic slowdown…the problem we will see is that the financing they are getting is then sold together with these collateralized debt deals.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education System Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We typically imagine that the young can help the old understand technology and the old can impart general wisdom. Over time, financial literacy increases; in our sample, it was highest for people in their sixties. So it makes sense for the old to share their insights about finances with the young. What might this look like?

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Self-aware Reputation Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. Since that time, however, the U.S. has transitioned to a market-oriented system of employment. Presently, many U.S.

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. Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. A meta-analysis of 128 independent studies conclusively confirmed this effect.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

Diversity 14

Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere." Today some business gurus have a similar message.

Consultative 16

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 16

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. Instead of seeking management jobs at GM or Eastman Kodak or Westinghouse, MBAs from elite schools went into finance and consulting.

Management 8

Management Retail Ethics Construction 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

NOTE: Samples for quality content include: top ten lists, how-to manuals, research findings, survey results, original articles, resource links, interviews, and events. Content gets searched and stored by Google, so consider a multi-pronged approach including keywords across all your web channels. 2) Always add a contact form.

Press Release 145

Press Release Discount Content Directory 145

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2019

While spreadsheets served a purpose for managing financials in the past, with how far technology has come in the last decade, you’d be hampering your operation by using Excel over tools like FreshBooks today. As an added bonus, sampling FreshBooks is 100% free! Start Your Free Trial of FreshBooks Cloud Accounting.

Comparison 10

Comparison Sample Tools Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The overall sample was half men and half women with an average age of 26.5 The random sample represented the distribution of job backgrounds among a typical MBA class: finance (40%), consulting (40%), and technology (20%). and an average work experience of four years. Here's what I found out.

Sample 9

Sample Survey Career Consultative 9