Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The Frankfurt “scene” is absolutely poised to break out on to the global stage, just because of the presence of so many highly educated, financially savvy people –from all over the world. Marguerite Arnold is an entrepreneur, author and third semester EMBA candidate at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. You go girl!

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Banking Financial Industry Finance 60

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The participants will learn how healthcare providers overcome resource constraints and deliver new developments.

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Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The job market does not account for all social value. On the other hand, some sectors involve “zero sum” endeavors, in which profits come at the expense of other market participants. Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market. Some spillovers are quite large. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. But what’s the role of investors?

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Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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Software Industry Education Information Technology 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Leaders with a passion for developing employees’ skills, and those who understand the need to transfer knowledge among generations of workers, know how important it is to link in-house education to strategic planning. Helping mentors pass along their expertise more effectively and helping mentees learn more efficiently.

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Development Education Engineering Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Consider these examples: Education. The UK’s Department for International Development uses “results-based” aid to improve the educational outcomes of young girls in Africa and Asia. Pearson, the educational publisher, measures the efficacy of its products to improve educational outcomes.

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Education Insurance Insurance Analysis 28

Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). As companies continue to expand into new markets, the makeup of the workforce in our companies and communities served is becoming more diverse.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” Finally, the CMO began insisting that marketing deliver greater financial accountability.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. Many former employees go on to programs in business, finance, economics and law.

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Interviews Research Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

It’s long been known that AI and automation/robotics will change markets and workforces. Jobs like teacher, doctor, financial advisor, stockbroker, marketer, and business consultant. We’ve accepted that machines can do these types of tasks efficiently. But which ones? However, their potential goes much further.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2018

Most inquiries from other departments — engineering, finance, product, marketing — are relatively simple requests that anyone with basic training could fulfill. Depending on the data tools your organization uses, though, a variety of educational programs, both online and in person, can get your team up to speed. (Of

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Data Tools Education Government 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Don’t optimize for efficiency. What to do. What not to do. Your goal is success.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 46

MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2014

Holding down costs of non-tradeables like housing, health care and education is the key to economic competitiveness and sustainable growth. Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. But the Nikkei is still at a lofty level.

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Information Technology Information Technology Financial Policies 74

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. ICT has offered new ways of exchanging information and transacting business efficiently and cheaply. Major investors, typically from outside the U.S.,

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Telecommunications Banking Knowledge Base Data 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Especially without strategic clarity, employees are unsure if they should focus on speed or quality, efficiency or innovation, for example. High-performing marketing organizations have developed a more agile style of working to keep their brands competitive amid rapid marketplace shifts.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We use market concentration as a proxy or a signal about whether a market is competitive. markets have in fact become significantly more concentrated over the past 20 or 30 years. One interpretation is that when a market gets more concentrated, that means it’s less competitive, so we have a problem.

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Policies Airlines Industry Efficiency 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

Help clients with complex financial accounting and reporting issues such as capital markets transactions, IFRS conversions, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Assists clients with critical tax issues by providing quality tax services and in-depth knowledge of the industries and markets in which clients operate. Public Sector Practice.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

For Tesla, adding more human labor to the mix means extending traditional jobs with additional responsibilities that would help ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Alien Dreadnought. And the company has partnered with colleges to provide students with the education they’ll need for a career in the electric-vehicle industry.

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Engineering Training Training Analysis 30

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk. Risk of breaching competition law.

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Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

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McKinsey Engineering Enterprise Research 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2017

Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply. A mentee should be curious, organized, efficient, responsible, and engaged. Establishing firm and clear ground rules with mentees can improve efficiency. One way to look for these traits is to test prospective mentees.

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Emotional Intelligence Meeting Video Examples 28

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. To reduce overhead, or to cut costs, or to increase efficiency, you decide to contract out (outsource) some or all of your IT work. But in April, just after U.S.

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