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 37

Film Education Fashion Sports 37

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

Operations 28

Operations Survey Efficiency Fashion 28

MishTalk

JULY 18, 2014

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. Maximum debt thresholds in rich, developed countries are much higher than they are in poor, developing countries.

Banking 70

Banking Financial Report System 70

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

Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. ZB by 2020.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Consulting 28

Buzzsprout

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Technology Update listeners on the latest developments in a particular area of tech: podcasting, gaming, videography/photography, etc. Product reviews Help take the guesswork out of purchases by doing product reviews for your listeners. Hands on Tech Kad's Review: Boxes and Products Explored 6.

Interviews 52

Interviews Travel Fashion Sports 52

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software.

Methodologies 53

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. Those outlays could be on soft avenues, such as customer acquisition, data breach and safety, regulatory fines, and product enhancement, or on hard assets, such as hardware, servers, and cellphone towers.

Financial 28

Financial Report Company Metrics 28

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 26, 2017

This incident shows that Bitcoin is in fact “governed”, if not by a central authority, then by a small group of developers. She is also an author, journalist and has just obtained her EMBA from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. With the new rules in place, transactions over the network should now run much faster.

Banking 60

Banking Government Fashion Healthcare 60

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. In response, analysts developed an admirable data envelopment model. A large fashion retailer ran into this issue. A champion-challenger approach.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

The economic gains for developing countries have been extraordinary. To reduce costs, they have shifted production to countries with low-paid workers, thereby increasing demand for their labor and increasing their wages. This can reduce revenues — for example, through demands for more-affordable products.

Intellectual Property 31

Intellectual Property Policies Productivity Banking 31

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.

Benchmarking 36

Benchmarking Government Policies Case Study 36