Women on Business

MARCH 30, 2011

But I know the key now is to manage for failures. What could you be losing out on by never trying at all? I mentioned before that I have had some failures in my business over the years. Painful lessons I certainly don’t want to repeat. Be prepared to share what went wrong and dissect it.

Venture Capitalist 236

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Career 236

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Furthermore, they uncover the complexities that challenge them and learn how better to assist each other in managing those challenges. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment.

Short-term 63

Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 63

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

The biggest impediments to adoption relate to cultural challenges: organizational alignment, resistance or lack of understanding, and change management. Companies that fail to adapt do so at their own competitive and market risk.

Company 12

Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Extensive research has shown: right- and left-wing populists both lead to lower stock returns and higher inflation. Here’s why — and what businesses can do.

Market Risk 19

Market Risk Risk Management Politics System 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Then develop a risk profile for your current strategy using the same framework you’re using to assess your new strategic options. If you have assessed the risk of your strategic options in terms of brand risk, operational risk, market risk, and so on, do the same for the current strategy.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. He went on to explain: "One practitioner might use the 1-year Treasury as their risk-free rate, while others may use the 10 or 30-year.

CAPM 15

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle. Mobilizing resources.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Investors don’t like risk any better than you do. If you’re raising money before traction is in hand, so-called “market risk” is higher than if demand has already been proven. Term sheets and shareholders’ agreements can burden you. And that portion grows over time, as additional rounds of capital are raised.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The entrepreneur's task is to manage this uncertainty, while recognizing that certain risks cannot be influenced by their actions. On the one hand, it can be difficult to reduce risk without resources. predisposition for risk taking; preference for independence). Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

Definition 10

Definition Entrepreneur Business Model Tactics 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

In estimating the cost of equity, nearly nine out of ten organizations use the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), which calculates the cost of equity using a risk-free rate, beta factor, and a market risk premium, each of which introduces significant variability.

Cost of Capital 14

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

. “The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9