Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Cash Flow 38

Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 38

MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2015

When black markets in currencies develop, you can be 100% sure the official exchange rate is overinflated. bolivars to the dollar, the floating rate of exchange is 50 bolivars to the dollar, and the black market rate is 184 bolivars to the dollar. In Venezuela, the fixed rate of exchange is 6.3

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Airlines Operations Marketing 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Policies Operations Banking 28

Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

Film 28

Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market.

Ethics 52

Ethics Balance Sheet System Productivity 52

MishTalk

JANUARY 8, 2014

A couple of participants thought that the marginal efficacy of the program was not declining, as evidenced by the substantial effects in financial markets in recent months of news about the likely path of purchases. Market expectations regarding the timing of liftoff of the federal funds rate seemed to be little changed over the period.

Policies 72

Policies Balance Sheet Financial Meeting 72

MishTalk

JUNE 9, 2015

Chart #2: Growing Payments While the current state of the city’s balance sheet is dismal, the real problem relates to what is expected to develop over the next decade. Many of the day-to-day aspects of city operations are extremely inefficient and expensive relative to other major metropolitan areas.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Data Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. The 300,000 companies in the association’s data set have more than doubled their profits from operations over the past 13 years, outpacing their corporate counterparts in the country. This success is no blip.

Industry 28

Industry Balance Sheet Enterprise Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Insight Center.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

Management 53

Management Company Balance Sheet Talent 53

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations.

Banking 28

Banking Balance Sheet McKinsey Finance 28

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers). Failure to act may consign many large players to the continuing trust deficit or, worse, irrelevance.

Insurance 40

Insurance Insurance Industry Balance Sheet 40

Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

IBM, for example, is partnering with startup Loyyal to develop blockchain infrastructure for loyalty and rewards programs. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. Early adopters could benefit considerably.

Travel 45

Travel Balance Sheet Hotels Airlines 45

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. This monitoring turns up an anomaly at a key customer that indicates a failure is imminent.

Company 28

Company Balance Sheet Enterprise Financial 28

MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets taught me much of what I know about global trade. Mish : Despite the obvious casino-like structure of global equity and bond markets, the poker game analogy is an extremely poor one. I am very appreciative. I tend to agree with most of his views.

Banking 67

Banking Real Estate Productivity Policies 67

MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The latest proposals could see up to 126 people being consulted on how to wind up a bank, even though agreement might need to be reached over the course of a weekend while financial markets are closed. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

Banking 73

Banking Finance Balance Sheet Financial 73