BCG

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Video Monday, October 17, 2016. With a background in business development, finance, and global operations, Whitehurst has a reputation for helping companies flourish—even in the most challenging of times. Whitehurst strongly advocates using open-source software as a catalyst for business innovation.

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BCG

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Article Monday, October 17, 2016. By BCG’s count, most companies listed on the major stock exchanges of the developed world have some type of SSC. In its relatively short history, the shared services center (SSC) has become something of a fixture in the global corporate landscape.

Analysis 40

Analysis Finance Efficiency Government 40

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

Recruiting 45

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Focus Thursday, September 15, 2016. The expectations of investors in private equity funds are also rising as development finance institutions are being joined by global institutional investors that are far more focused on high returns. Is Africa’s private equity boom really being driven by economic fundamentals?

Finance 40

Finance Resources Industry Development 40

Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 1, 2023

If so, here is a link to a free Short Dark Triad assessment developed by Delroy Paulhus and Daniel Jones, strictly for educational and entertainment purposes. Talent Management Countermeasure #6: Training Bringing out the best in all personality types includes employee learning and development opportunities. Psychology Topics.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“When Dr. Goldratt came to me and asked, ‘Eli, how long will it take you to develop a new feature’, I hesitated. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more. TOC has fully developed methodologies for determining the right location of buffers in projects as well as in manufacturing.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

McKinsey’s New York office recently received a perfect score for the 10th year in a row for the Human Rights Campaign Foundations 2016 corporate equality index, which focuses on the best places to work with regards to LGBT equality and gender equity for women. The office at NYC has grown quite a bit the past ~7 years.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal.

Company 28

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

There will be some clear winners in the clean energy transition, namely more developed countries. Figure 4 : Final energy demand, 2016 – 2050. Transitioning to cleaner, greener energy will create opportunities for business growth and development. Figure 3 : Activities that are facilitating the clean energy transition.

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Energy Transportation Policies McKinsey 88

Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

An organization’s culture reflects the various lessons it has learned through its history and incorporates the many behaviors and processes that have developed over time. Even companies with strong organizational cultures may develop into dysfunctional organizational cultures after a merger without actions to harmonize the two cultures.

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Culture Resources Tools Leadership 52

MishTalk

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The next election for prime minister is not scheduled until June 2016, but a February 2015 presidential election (a largely ceremonial position) threatens to upset the cart. Inefficiency often associated with Greece remains a fact of life in many areas, despite massive European development aid.

Finance 67

Finance Government Banking Travel 67

MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Germany Backtracks on Banking Union MarketWatch reports Germany appears to backtrack on EU banking deal EU finance ministers have promised to agree on a so-called single-resolution mechanism--consisting of more centralized decision-making and financing for the shuttering or downsizing of failing banks--before the end of the year.

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Banking Finance Balance Sheet Financial 61

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

Company 51

Company Survey Finance Engineering 51

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. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 28

Operations Finance Media Financial 28

Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Alex Formstone: It’s a combination of client development, client management, managing the team to deliver the project work and firm building. You would be expected to manage the junior client interactions for example working with the finance or marketing team, and be given opportunities to present work to senior business leaders.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

Company 35

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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Survey Tools Industry Automotive 43

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B By almost all accounts, companies at the digital frontier such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are investing vast amounts in AI—somewhere between $20 billion and $30 billion alone in 2016. . $5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

Strategy 29

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model.

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Data Finance Survey Education 35

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

Nonprofit 28

Nonprofit Engineering Industry Finance 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Cat Yu for HBR. The Future of I-Corps.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. The company’s CFO asked a crowd of the company’s most accomplished finance leaders to raise their hand if they had attended an Ivy League school.

Management 44

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. Software development, operations, and support have to be provided for both offerings, and because they differ from one another considerably, economies of scale cannot be reached in the way possible with just one business model.

Company 28

Company Software Sales Study 28

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. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

One evening in February 2016, writer and filmmaker Ava DuVernay met with two top Disney executives about the possibility of directing an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. She had already developed a reputation for taking on daunting projects, and she knew these two executives admired her work.

Film 50

Film Engineering Research Energy 50

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance.

Data 28

Data Operations Finance Government 28

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In researching and testing these commonalities, we developed a new management framework for effective cross-sector partnerships, and a clear method for measuring success.

Nonprofit 38

Nonprofit Government Company Operations 38

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

How To 38

How To Real Estate Case Interview System 38

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. Under Immelt, GE decide to make rather than buy , and develop the needed capability in-house. We need to be more like Oracle. We need to be more like Microsoft.” The next is to actually allocate capital differently.

Industry 28

Industry Metrics Transportation Strategy& 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S., What changed? New category creation is not easy.

Chemicals 38

Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 38

Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

One is profits — cryptocurrency investors made some massive returns in 2016, with cryptocurrencies from Blockchain startups Monero and NEM both seeing 2,000% increases in value. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

Finance 43

Finance Financial Government Software 43

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. sanctions, which were initially enacted in 1979 and strengthened in subsequent years, resulted in many U.S.

Tourism 28

Tourism Banking Hotels Financial 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images. Using Technology to Go From Identity to Financial Inclusion.

Government 53

Government Banking System Policies 53

Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. strategic hires).

Training 28

Training Training Banking Balance Sheet 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder.

Government 28

Government Intellectual Property Policies Analysis 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 20, 2017

The client, which constituted some 80 percent of Home Run’s billings, advised Home Run that its 2016 billings were likely to fall sharply. Blickstein and his finance team had already begun to analyze the options. Home Run’s clients relied on the company to help develop and implement their media strategies.

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