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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

How Dell went from dorm room startup in 1984, to the world''s largest PC maker in 2005, and then saw its stock plummet precipitously the next year, is the subject of a lengthy Harvard Business School case study by HBS professor Jan Rivkin. Yet the improved financial position came at a cost. A Short History of Dell.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

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

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. Dig a few layers deeper into firms'' management teams and the situation doesn''t look much better. A 2005 survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that only 7.5% Cosmopolitanism, of course, isn''t only about top management diversity.

Globalization 9

Globalization Diversity Survey CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

But in 2010 (at $13 million in revenue), management decided that to grow, the firm needed to buy other companies. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow.

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

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.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 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.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Inspired by this pattern, my wife, Annalisa Guzzini, an architect, and I developed a new cutting die that reduces total costs by 1% — a modest reduction, but not negligible in an industry with average profit rates of 8%. (To By the company’s own estimate, total labor costs rose 20-30%.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. Closing the AMP’d stores cost millions. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. The management team at Rodan + Fields, today a $250 million skincare products company, understood this risk.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 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. Cambridge, U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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. I learned a couple of very valuable lessons – autocratic/fear management wasn’t going to work over the long-term, and I should never pretend to be something that I’m not.

Budgeting 256

Budgeting CPA Maturity Open-book 256

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Dimon’s raise obviously has special resonance because JP Morgan’s legal woes were one of the top business stories last year as it agreed to $20 billion in payments to settle a variety of cases involving the bank’s conduct since 2005 when Dimon became JPM CEO. The bank earned about $18 billion, down from $21 billion the year before.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

All too often I see new supervisors struggling mightily with the idea of actually “managing&# a staff – setting priorities, communicating the company vision, motivating, holding people accountable, and delivering the necessary coaching and corrections. So yes, this all costs money. And not just once a year. Constantly.

Team 261

Team Training Blog Skills 261

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.

Retail 9

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

” By 1926 some 4 million households had radios, often large consoles costing well over $100. By 2005 smartphones were already popular, but the Cupertino visionary saw something much cooler than a “Crackberry.” Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market. Etheric Bedlam.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Founded in Malawi in 2005, North Star is now a non-profit network of more than 30 roadside health centers, operating along major transportation corridors across Africa in countries including Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, serving hundreds of thousands of patients each year. Management and leadership skills.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It is a simple matter of the big and strong (but often too slow) being unable to manage, or even see, the small and weaker (but fast and agile) threat. In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. In 2010, Gap announced a brand new logo, then retreated after a week.

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

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.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. 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.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

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.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. One of those was excessive health care costs. 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). Decades ago W. was developed at a U.S.

Health Care 40

Health Care System Deming Letter 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Others cite the nine organizations leaving the program and the humbling results of a prior ACO experiment in Medicare — the Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD) that ran from 2005 to 2010 — as reasons to be pessimistic. ACOs are one of the main ways that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tackles costs.

Organization 8

Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I interviewed more than 50 executives and mid-level managers who had worked for HP in the 2004-2007 timeframe, many of whom reported to Fiorina and subsequently worked with her successor, Mark Hurd. ” Fiorina attacked many different aspects of the company, including reorganization, cost cutting, and vision setting.

CEO 8

CEO Charisma COO Execution 8