Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Several studies over the past few years reiterate the return on investment (ROI) of strategy-driven employee engagement programs, confirming the importance of an engaged workforce on bottom-line results. Firms with the highest percentage of engaged employees collectively increased operating income 19% and earnings per share 28% year to year.

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ROI Definition Price Operations 141

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Yahoo’s forays into China started with a build strategy, which later became a buy strategy and ultimately morphed into a partnership strategy. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. Build, Buy, Partner.

Chief Financial Officer 11

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. Instead, seeing the potential in the product and commitment of employees, we came up with financing to buy out the investor and keep the company operating.

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Team Leadership COO Software 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

While former management consultants are not frequently chosen as CEOs — our research noted 28 former management consultants with five-plus years of consulting experience out of a total of 541 CEO transitions between 2004 and 2010 — the evidence we’ve uncovered here would suggest that, as a class, they are fully worthy of consideration.

Consultative 11

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Passage of the Affordable Care Act, in 2010, signaled the advent of VBC and an emphasis on population care. The increasing complexity of having to track performance for many different payment systems and meet different reporting requirements of quality and safety outcomes will likely increase administrative costs.

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Health Care Transportation Cost System 8