Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. Disruptive products and services were, by definition, cheaper, lower quality, and lower margin. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.

Finance 28

Finance Financial B2B Industry 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. To generate publicity that allows them to solicit broad feedback on their beta product.

Finance 28

Finance Software Government Real Estate 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). In New York, Bain is located at 1114 Avenue of the Americas on the 43rd Floor.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

January 9, 2008 : Telephone Conference Meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee Staff Report : The incoming data on spending and production have, on net, led us to revise up our estimate of real GDP growth in 2007:Q4 by about 1-1/4 percentage points relative to the December Greenbook. I didn’t quite get that.

Construction 77

Construction Conference Meeting Policies 77

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

To reduce costs, they have shifted production to countries with low-paid workers, thereby increasing demand for their labor and increasing their wages. This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. It wasn’t for charity, of course.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Policies Productivity Banking 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But they also have changed how they work with each part of the company, allowing them to learn and adapt faster as new opportunities arise and markets change. One group works in a bimodal fashion, with day-to-day responsibility, but also being tied into the COEs. “Today everything is aligned with the COEs,” he said.

Operations 28

Operations Survey Efficiency Fashion 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. What caused this slump?

Financial 28

Financial Report Company Metrics 28

Harvard Business

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. They wanted to switch the basis of its salesforce compensation from raw results to performance relative to the potential of each salesperson’s market.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Consulting 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

Operations 28

Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 28

MishTalk

JULY 18, 2014

Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets reiterates that view in regards to credit expansion and GDP growth. Growth in credit can be subject to “sudden stops”, especially when external financed, but even in systems in which sudden stops can be controlled, like that of China, debt capacity is nonetheless limited.

Banking 70

Banking Financial Report System 70

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

If biology flows downhill, shouldn’t society as well—especially when society will contain more older people than ever before, while becoming more dependent than ever on the productivity of a relatively smaller cohort of young people? And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

Film 30

Film Education Fashion Sports 30

Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion. Electricity led to enormous productivity gains only when factory layout was revisited and optimized for the new technology.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Engineering 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the past three years, I conducted a research project on men, masculinity, and fashion. It’s more common in the arts and fashion industries, but men also choose to dress fabulously in professional organizations. The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance.

Fashion 32

Fashion Research Interviews Meeting 32

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Methodologies 44

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 44

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6

Benchmarking 30

Benchmarking Government Policies Case Study 30