Comatch

MAY 16, 2022

Green finance is becoming increasingly dominant, as long-term investors see environmental risk management as a fundamental success factor in securing long-term returns. At COP21 in Paris in 2015, all participating countries agreed to work together to “ limit global warming to well below 2 degrees and aim for 1.5

Chemicals 52

Chemicals Energy Metrics Industry 52

Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

The answer is yes, based on the activity level of everybody we know in the M&A/buy-sell industry. Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015). Axial – 66% of businesses with employees are owned by baby boomers (2015). Easy money.

Marketing 40

Marketing PricewaterhouseCoopers Cash Flow Banking 40

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Note: To continue the merger and consolidation excitement, Willis Group (a large insurance provider interested largely in the actuarial practice of Towers Watson) and Towers Watson announced on June 30, 2015 that they had agreed to a $18B merger. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Insurance Industry Consulting.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. Model 1: Virtual operator.

Operations 28

Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 28

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

We’ve reviewed locations, employee counts, industry focus, and reputation of multiple firms in and around the Boston area – and this article will help you make life-changing decisions. And with Bain’s globally-recognized social culture, Vault ranked Bain as the Best Place to Work in 2015.

Oliver Wyman 72

Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. Then, underneath three of these sub-subsidiaries are, you guessed it, more subsidiaries, such as Seabury Airline Planning Group LLC and Seabury Maritime Corporate Finance LLC.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. ” Voluntarily led response to 2015 flooding of School of Design building. Initiated contact with Director, staff, students, and faculty to minimize disruption of department’s operations.

Transportation 37

Transportation Real Estate Financial Operations 37

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

corporations from 1985 to 2015. Although we statistically control for many confounding factors, such as characteristics of the firm, attributes of the CEO, and industry-level factors, we can’t be sure that our results capture the exact causal effect of MBA education. firms, and put the brakes on diversification.

Research 35

Research Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 35

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Trucking Industry Entering a Profit-Killing Era of Overcapacity? As surface transportation’s peak period ends for the year, and trucking eyes the traditionally slowest time for the industry as first quarter 2016, economic signals are, at best, mixed. Operating revenue decreased 15.9 Here are the readings for 2015.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Banking Study Policies 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

The companies we surveyed – in 13 manufacturing and service industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America – are using AI much more frequently in computer-to-computer activities and much less often to automate human activities. How it will impact business, industry, and society. Insight Center.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 37

MishTalk

JULY 12, 2015

Amend or compensate for "roll-back" legislation adopted during 2015 that is counter to the framework of the February 20, 2015 Eurogroup statement. Additional Financing Needs The Eurogroup takes note of the possible financing needs of between €82 billion and €86 billion.

Finance 28

Finance Financial Government Banking 28

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

South, an industry where the problem has been long entrenched, were estimated to be misclassified. For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies.

Case Interview 37

Case Interview Insurance Insurance Government 37

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Consider how General Electric arrived at the decision to develop and launch its Predix cloud-based industrial operation system.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. One company in the casual dining industry that has navigated some of these issues well holds to company quality standards and values but allows local flexibility on its customer menu.

Culture 52

Culture Resources Tools Leadership 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The grueling testimonies from CEO John Stumpf, coupled with insights from my industry-wide research into the culture and mindsets of bankers, suggest there is a blind spot among senior leaders at Wells Fargo, as well as deterrents to speaking up among the rank and file.

Leadership 31

Leadership Banking Ethics Culture 31

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. B operated the same way as A, with no special control.

Energy 28

Energy Balance Sheet Efficiency Software 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

dollar – Zimbabwe’s de facto currency – decimated the country’s remaining industrial base by making Zimbabwean manufactured goods too expensive and uncompetitive. South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite. Achieving economic recovery.

Government 28

Government Banking System Finance 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Another interesting example of small, high precision data being used to make big gains with AI can be found in the airline industry. In 2015, Boeing launched the Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop AI technology for airlines.

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Data Productivity Airlines B2C 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S. Defining Strategic Roles.

Talent 28

Talent Education Engineering Software 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Even if your organization is skilled at moving pilots and prototypes into production, you will also have to re-engineer the business processes to have full impact on your business and industry. Tech companies like Alphabet have even more learning; that company had 2700 AI projects underway as far back as 2015.

Company 28

Company System Engineering Data 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

However, the current meager market share held by online lenders masks immense potential: Morgan Stanley estimates the total addressable market for online SME lenders is $280 billion and predicts the industry will grow at a 47% annualized rate through 2020. Sometimes David can triumph over Goliath. ” Can banks out-compete the disruptors?

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Banking Small Business Oliver Wyman Retail 33

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Estimates of the annual medical costs of obesity range from $147–$210 billion , approximately 40% of which is financed by Medicare and Medicaid. From the industry side, attempts to impose taxes face stiff opposition; the beverage industry, for example, spends millions of dollars on lobbying and advertising against the proposed taxes.

Policies 28

Policies Sales Education Study 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth.

Media 29

Media Culture Company Software 29

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier.

Company 28

Company Software Sales Study 28

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. However, remaining U.S. financial system for bank transactions related to Iran.

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Tourism Banking Hotels Financial 28

Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

We earned a 13% return — not bad by industry standards — but we failed to change the company much. We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies.

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Real Estate Construction Meeting Company 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. There can be a lot of stress in this industry.

Energy 28

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Perma-Seal, a family-owned waterproofing company operating for decades in the Chicagoland area, for instance, demonstrates its commitment to providing a positive experience for its staff. Share information with employees about the organization’s finances, performance, and plans. Clandestine discussions foster distrust and anxiety.

Culture 52

Culture Training Training Development 52

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

Insurance 32

Insurance Insurance Industry Balance Sheet 32

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. And it is not alone.

Banking 28

Banking Balance Sheet McKinsey Finance 28

Harvard Business

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. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

Management 28

Management Metrics Financial Company 28

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape. Innovation and change.

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Methodologies Policies Government Data 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

It was just the industry and firm norm. It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents.

Boston Consulting Group 34

Boston Consulting Group Study Conference Survey 34

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

However, not all of its resources are pointed towards consulting, as it offers three lines of services, Audit, Tax and Advisory, with the Advisory arm of its operations (where consulting lives) generating $9.09 Within the US, KPMG LLP operates from 87 offices with more than 23,000 employees. Billion last year. Peat & Co.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Placing the Blame Some place the blame for the Manufacturing Move on export financing. In exchange for moving the production from Waukesha, Wisconsin, Export Development Canada will provide financing support for a range of future products, including some still made in the United States. The move will cost the US 350 manufacturing jobs.

Finance 28

Finance Engineering Productivity Banking 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The fraction of global manufacturing done in Asia (measured by value added) jumped from 29% in 2000 to 45% in 2015. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. There are three reasons a rethink is due: East Asia’s shrinking cost advantage. Take the idea of a U.S. Census Bureau data.

Chemicals 31

Chemicals Policies Productivity Trends 31

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. The program is most often associated with the tech industry, where H-1B workers hold about 12%–13% of jobs , according to a Goldman Sachs report. jobs overall.)

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Engineering Talent Information Technology Information Technology 30