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

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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

Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

Pencil manufacturing in the US at the time was extremely competitive, with many pencil “products” lacking the reliably fine-point consistency we are accustomed to today. which transforms business consultants, CEOs, attorneys, finance experts and other business leaders and their companies into published “thought leaders.”

Case Interview 40

Case Interview Conference Travel Study 40

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.

Construction 77

Construction Conference Meeting Policies 77

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 38

Film Education Fashion Sports 38

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

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

Buzzsprout

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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. Beauty and fashion Talk about the latest fashion trends and make it niche by focusing on a particular age group or style. Talking Tech The Vergecast 5.

Interviews 52

Interviews Travel Fashion Sports 52

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. An excessive debt burden reduces future productivity and employment growth.

Banking 70

Banking Financial Report System 70

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

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

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

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

JUNE 23, 2017

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. For “price conscious” buyers, product price is a top decision-making factor.

Sales 28

Sales Fashion Real Estate Engineering 28

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 26, 2017

Given all of these developments, it is clear that while cryptocurrency may not be regulated by old fashioned means – with value calculations being performed by a central authority – governments are in fact beginning to find ways to regulate this “currency” by controlling how it should be used, taxed, and what products people can buy with it.

Banking 60

Banking Government Fashion Healthcare 60

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 42

Fashion Research Interviews Meeting 42

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. Unfortunately, the company lacked the infrastructure to directly implement the trained model in a production setting. A large fashion retailer ran into this issue.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

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 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