Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Franchising is a the ultimate definition of scale where a business owner removes themselves completely from operational responsibilities in order to become a coach to others who wish to enter the world of entrepreneurship. billion and a boat that is larger than some countries.

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Franchising System Entrepreneur Strategic Planning 50

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Alas, new research from the University of Illinois suggests that it’s much more likely for a company to locate itself where skilled people already are than for skilled people to follow a firm. A growing sector. Recruiting talent.

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Software Skills Engineering Cost 40

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

If you’re among the group of active users who no longer find it confusing, but still haven’t hit your stride, you’re also in good company. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. Joseph Schumpeter, the noted economist, said — in 1909 — that small companies were more inventive than large ones. IBM and HP are two amazing companies with long and meaningful histories.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Pulling off a core shift takes many years, if not a decade, as PPG and other companies have shown. Allow time and persevere. A core shift takes time for several reasons.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

Early last year, our company, Duarte Inc., We had turned our org chart on its side, so that nearly every person in the company either had a new boss or was a new boss. Remember how Howard Schultz launched his renewed vision for Starbucks when he returned to the company as CEO in 2008? was well into a great season of change.

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Company Mission Statement Bond Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. But they will need to adopt the more hard-headed way that Silicon Valley companies evaluate acquisitions for their deals to pay off. Insight Center.

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Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% Worst of all were computers and peripherals companies, with a 3% average annual return — barely the rate of inflation in many parts of the world. Second, top-quartile companies operate more profitably than other companies.

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TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. For instance, consider what it means to be a director of a company like General Electric.

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Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In today’s dynamic business environment, leaders of large established companies need more than ever to run and reinvent the business at the same time. ” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. Not all firms fall into this trap.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem. Insight Center.

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Management Supply Chain Tools Article 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The new conventional wisdom on corporate structure is that companies can do better by organizing themselves around customer groups. The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999). By Patrick M.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

But the rules and expectations are different when you’re managing a freelancer who isn’t fully employed by your company. You still need to actively and thoughtfully manage them so that you can get their best output and ensure they’ll want to work with you again. What the Experts Say. Give feedback.

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Management Tips Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Its HR function has been instrumental in the $100 billion company's metamorphosis from a floundering computer manufacturer in the 1990s to a prosperous software and consulting services company today. HR should look at the direction of the company and say, 'We need to be here right along with the business.' ". But not at IBM.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Even though it's what keeps companies operationally in shape, front-line process improvement is hard to sustain. In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. Consider the story of Technicolor. Their answer?

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Process How To Attrition Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. The results?

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Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

I should know: my company, Atos, is the worldwide IT partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the lead technology integrator for the London Games. A company like Atos lives or dies based on how well it is able to collaborate with clients, technology partners, and even competitors.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

In too many companies, the managerial ranks lack role models for women, people of color, and the LGBT community. But in my company's (Campbell's) case, diversity is about more than breaking glass ceilings — whether color, sexual, or generational. Perhaps these steps can be helpful to your company, too. ?1.

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Diversity Human Resources How To Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This admittedly controversial step comes after nearly a decade of attempts to induce companies to voluntarily boost the number of women in boardrooms and the higher ranks of businesses. Norway has had a quota since 2002, and women now make up more than 40% of board members. since 2010. Both presidential candidates portray the U.S.

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Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

About 7 percent of the population wore eyeglasses in 2002, while whopping 65 percent of those in need did not have them. As one of the world's largest lens manufacturers, with 30 percent global share of the lens industry, the company had special reason to consider the enormity of India's eyesight problems.

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Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

While on the surface revenues remained strong, its rapport with customers and physicians was rapidly eroding, and its reputation was being bludgeoned by lawsuits and a national backlash against health maintenance organizations and managed care (which Aetna had championed). This time, however, they were in for a surprise.

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

To get some empirically derived answers, we studied leaders of companies that grew to become great in highly uncertain, even chaotic, industries. Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it.

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

From there, they set an order of battle, an operations plan, and timetable with responsibilities delineated. With less than six months of operating cash, we could not hire for those positions immediately. When I arrived at the PHC in 2002, it was in financial distress.

Health Care 13

Health Care Delegation PR Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

During the decade he headed the company (1992 – 2002), Tyco grew from a small New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant operating in more than 100 countries with 250,000 employees and $40 billion in annual revenue. The board’s audit committee did not keep minutes at all until the problems began at Tyco in 2002.

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Golden Parachute Committee Ethics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Sara Rynes, Amy Colbert, & Kenneth Brown conducted a study in 2002 to determine whether the beliefs of HR professionals were consistent with established research findings on the effectiveness of various HR practices. And yet that’s how many companies operate. In the case of 4-Qs, probably not.

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Human Resources Tools Analysis Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

But the truth is that, for the most part, they redefine minimum requirements for operating in a given industry — not advantages. Only a small percentage of companies will gain competitive advantage from SMACIT technologies. What successful companies are doing right. That doesn’t mean you can ignore them.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Khazanah recognized that Malaysia needed future national leaders with a wide variety of experiences that were far more varied than any of the individual companies in their portfolio could offer alone. Khazanah convinced their portfolio companies to trade their leaders. The main driver for me was to be CFO of a quoted company.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

When managers come up with creative solutions to unforeseen problems or run with unexpected opportunities, they are not undermining systematic implementation; they are demonstrating execution at its best. Emphasis added]. This defines the whole of strategy as one of the three core pieces of execution!

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Execution Strategy Sull Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The company spends virtually nothing on advertising. The company now has over 200 stores, and sales soared from US $40 million to US $1.37 It does not just manage to get a brand into a customer’s consideration set; it powerfully influences which aspects of that brand the customer notices and experiences. billion in eight years.

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Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. Ben : I love it.

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