Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ It charged too much money and got away with it (because mid-managers but brand names of firms).

Strategic Planning 58

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives. MirageC/Getty Images. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Part of the decline can be explained by the sharp depreciation of the bolivar, but for the most part it reflects proactive decisions by multinationals to exit the market.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

We had jobless recoveries coming out of the last recessions in 2001 and 1992, but this one put the budget squeeze on recruiting and has gone on for a very long time. But even when managers give permission to hire, they may drag their feet about actually bringing someone on. Does it mean there is something really different this time?

Cost 8

Cost Incentives Budgeting Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Investors grapple daily in an effort to figure out how to value companies whose accounting assets — things like land, capital, products, and licenses — don't adequately express their true market value. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand."

Intangible Assets 14

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Recently published reports on the slips and stumbles of two much-heralded companies provide a close look at some of the internal dynamics that can undermine optimal decision-making and effective execution — even within organizations that have a history of market-leading performance.

Long-term 14

Long-term Short-term Engineering Price 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. There seems to be variety in customers’ requirements, meaning that software vendors would not be able to tap into the whole market without a perpetual license offering.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. If you invest in human capital, whether in your company or in your country, sooner or later it will pay off if you have the right set of incentives. Bush authorized U.S.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. ” when Ron Johnson began rolling out Apple Stores in 2001. Apple’s cash hoard currently tops $175 billion.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

For over two years, I’ve been doing qualitative research on Uber and Lyft drivers, first examining how Uber uses automated mechanisms to manage drivers with my coauthor Luke Stark. This bifurcation has been apparent in my own research. And, more recently, I’ve interviewed 85 Uber and Lyft drivers across the U.S.

Motivation 8

Motivation Survey Incentives Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Right now, yesterday's organizations — from corporations to Congress — have a gaping, yawning disclosure gap: the how, what, why, how and when of disclosure simply isn't good enough for markets and communities to be able to allocate and utilize resources productively or efficiently.

GDP 15

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. I, along with the rest of my management team and the board, agreed with the recommendation, and the drug was withdrawn. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? A major national effort to educate the public and market a new "culture of security" for Internet behavior. Government Information & technology Risk management'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. In fact, we barely have a marketing budget at the corporate level. Honestly, Fernando, not much," Beatriz said. Hans, hello.".

Case Study 9

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 9