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. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions. The second reason is more important.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 11, 2010

But what I’ve observed and learned is that great leaders realize there is much more to decision making than doing a bunch of calculations – there are three other elements that are arguably just as important: Timing The Opportunity Cost The “Isaac Newton Effect&# The best way to illustrate these elements is to use an example.

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ROI Cost Blog Learning-by-Doing 273

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Decisiveness: “There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction&#. Try one of these yourself next time you are rallying the troops. – John F.

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Leadership Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing Blog 330

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

In my 2011 HBR article, The Cosmopolitan Corporation , I argued that a cosmopolitan leadership team just might be the critical organizational ingredient for firms to succeed in a world that is neither global nor local but rather a complex combination of the two (what I call World 3.0 ). Some 30% of U.S.

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Globalization Diversity Survey CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

For example, a patient considering back surgery for disc herniation wants to know: “How much will this procedure lessen my pain and increase my mobility, when will I see improvement, and how much will this cost?” Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Similarly, U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. “Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. million in annual turnover-related costs for every 10,000 workers, when all employees feel their work is highly meaningful. A Challenge and an Opportunity.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We counter that managers who would see their businesses survive the next few decades of extreme economic volatility will need to develop some literacy about oil and its complex relationships with the economy. They also hide the declining energy density, higher cost, and lower flow rates of these new resources. but $100-110 in China.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. Without changes to this scheme, the cutters bore the increased labor cost and saw none of the much larger benefits of reducing waste of material.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

This includes cutting unnecessary costs—but it also means finding ways to increase revenue. According to Joel Stiebale, a professor at DICE and co-author of the paper, it’s becoming more difficult to ensure high returns from cost-cutting alone, so PE investors are seeking more entrepreneurial growth.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Then, it was for a series of missed deadlines. Now, he was there because of a careless error that cost the company a customer. First it was for some poorly completed work. Jerry had hired George several years ago and taken him under his wing, and had spent a lot of time with him, trying to groom him into a high performer.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Media Review 269

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

That’s because the digital revolution has now made it possible to develop, produce, and distribute information in regular waves of better and cheaper technologies—the pre-conditions for what Paul Nunes and I have called “ Big Bang Disruption.”. Since 2005, cable companies have lost ten million subscribers.

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Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Closing the AMP’d stores cost millions. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. They pinpointed a number of new consultants who were excelling, identified their behaviors and then implemented the new field development strategies with their Atlanta consultants (a tough market for the firm).

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

That initial display of hubris cost me months of goodwill, and ultimately the effort and sacrifice necessary to generate superior performance. Finally, rather than discuss it openly, I did the autocratic thing – I simply changed the numbers myself and pushed it down to them as final. Did we hit that budget? Of course not.

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Budgeting CPA Maturity Open-book 256

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Decisive actions are required to tackle the factors that prompted the spin-off in the first place, which in many cases are underperformance and/or a lack of strategic fit leading to chronic underinvestment in the development of the business.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

Worse, it leads to turnover, which costs time, money, and critical continuity. So yes, this all costs money. Taking the top management once every year to a training program and then hoping for the best does not qualify as leadership development for me. And not just once a year. Constantly. But it must be done.

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Team Training Blog Skills 261

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Seek partnerships with Western brands.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. In developing countries, primary care tends to be delivered by a mix of public and private sector providers.

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Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

billion leveraged private equity buyout in 2005, with the aim of turning the chain around, but the resulting debt has proved to be unserviceable. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. In their 2005 book, W. Yet the struggles at the company are not new.

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Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In 2010, 20% of China's urban consumers spent more money than they did the previous year because they were first-time buyers; that figure dropped to just 5% in 2011, according to our survey. Many companies can acquire consumers in China's poorer cities, which the government has targeted for development. billion.

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Productivity Products McKinsey Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

” By 1926 some 4 million households had radios, often large consoles costing well over $100. Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel. The FCC quickly developed a “public interest” rationale for the move: sunspots. Then he paused. Etheric Bedlam.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

Shippers pursue clear (if hard to obtain) cost, profit, and service objectives, while the public sector’s objectives are always in flux, given the conflicting interests of constituents (including active opposition to new infrastructure projects). For all these reasons, we know the lack of alignment is not a new problem.

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Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. In 2005, a single post by blogger Jeff Jarvis led to a customer uprising now known as "Dell Hell." In 2010, Gap announced a brand new logo, then retreated after a week.

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. The cost of a single element is remarkably high, because each requires a separate mold and creates scheduling and inventory complexity on the shop floor. In 2011 the private equity firm Blackstone invested 160 million euros in the company.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

One of those was excessive health care costs. was developed at a U.S. I wrote about this in 2005: Excessive Drug Prices in the USA (and several times since then, Drug Price Crisis [2008] – it is a long term, huge economic problem for the USA). The costs of decades of failure are extrodinary.

Health Care 40

Health Care System Deming Letter 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

” Fiorina attacked many different aspects of the company, including reorganization, cost cutting, and vision setting. She never took the time to develop rapport with individual employees, and therefore never got buy-in or support for her initiatives. It wasn’t the HP way. People found that to be very tacky.

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