Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

And the long-term trends that have driven corporate restructuring are not going away — globalization, technical change, and ever fiercer competition between firms. Larry Lessig’s excellent 2008 book explains how this cultural remix creates new art. I’ll extend that idea to business.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Other Self-Starters became Criticizers when their leaders acted inconsistently with their articulated vision, values, and goals.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Between January 2008 and February 2010, 8.8 When more responsibility is added to what you already do , you have an opportunity to restructure your work and present your plan. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. million jobs were lost. Or, should I…?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Should we restructure the organization to lower costs and at least partially offset the loss of revenue? We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs. We viewed restructuring as a last resort. We decided against restructuring and reductions in research expenditures. billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

During the Great Recession of 2008, companies around the world downsized their workforces. American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. This company lost $5 billion in 2012 and hasn’t made a profit since 2008. They endorse a whack of dough into media and they continue to extend brand names into other categories, but they are falling short in spearheading brand equity growth. Panic has set in.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis can help companies adjust to both the down swings in demand as well as the upswings that are sure to follow. Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. For example , U.S.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Perhaps one — in which she suggests restructuring job responsibilities to make sure they don't require more technical qualifications than they really need — might bear some thought today.). "So many of the elements," she pointed out herself, "are simply good management procedures. It is a great economic waste.".

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Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Bitcoin was first created as a response to the 2008 financial crisis. Such a fundamental restructuring of a core part of the economy is a big challenge to incumbent firms that make their living from it. This will certainly be true for blockchain technology. Preparing for these changes means investing in research and experimentation.

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Banking Media Decentralization Technology 20

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

For Allen Printing, 2008 should have been a banner year. Heffington, working with Steve Curnutte, a restructuring advisor, realized that as new orders poured in, it became difficult to establish the true cost of fulfilling them. Sales at the family-owned printing business in Nashville, Tenn.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager. No matter how well P&G reorganizes itself, it can’t reverse the decline from $83 billion in sales in 2008 to $65 billion in 2017 without learning some new tricks.

Brand 10

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Scibelli restructured the HR department by hiring a director of organizational development from the outside (since they didn't have this function) to help people adapt to process changes. In a previous post , I told the story of Tony Scibelli, vice president of HR and operations at Faxton-St.

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Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

While the restructuring certainly helped GM return to profitability (its annual net income averaged $6.7 million vehicles in 2008. But this “Barra bonus” totals only $115 million, a pittance compared with the $5 billion that GM will spend on the buyback.).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Between 2008 and 2011, the turnover rate of Tupperware's predominately part-time sales people (consultants, as the company calls them) fell by 15%. The second company (which we will name) is the Northern European subsidiary of Tupperware, the famous food container company.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 2008 establishes employment laws for employers in the private sector, state and local governments, and other public bodies. Restructure hiring practices : Review the guidelines for hiring , remove any discriminatory criteria or language, and engage a diverse hiring team.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

For instance, Home Depot, despite a painful housing market–led recession, retained most of its hourly workers and their benefits in 2008–2009. Again, acknowledging reality might force hard, but timely, decisions on restructuring employee benefits. One way to gauge this is in how a firm treats its workforce in bad times.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Since 2008, through government subsidies, the manufacturing capacity of China''s solar-panel industry grew tenfold, leading to a vast global oversupply. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%. Our research showed that without subsidies, these companies would be bankrupt.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008. For a refresher on how PE works, see The Strategic Secret of Private Equity.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

And I wasn’t the only one concerned about the company’s direction – in 2008 my colleagues Yves Doz and Mikko Kosonen wrote about the “rollercoaster” that was strategy at Nokia for many years, just before the Apple phenomenon decimated the company’s handset business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Prior to this, only 2007-2008 saw this many annual deals, and before that the single-year peak of 2000 saw “just” over 40,000 deals. But tech is disrupting even this newly restructured industry, as automobiles become computers on wheels.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. ” McAfee and Brynjolfsson report something similar in their 2008 HBR article. “Companies are restructuring from an industry focus to an occupational focus,” he told me. Bloom thinks outsourcing is a cause as well.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Citing its outcomes performance as a mandate for change, Fraser set about a complete restructuring of the team: pediatric cardiac surgeons and cardiologists started collaborating more closely, dedicated pediatric cardiac surgery operating rooms and ICU space was created, and a systematic outcomes tracking program was put in place.

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Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In 2008, financial services firms, primarily in and around New York City, dumped hundreds of thousands of people into the ranks of the unemployed (26,000 alone at Lehman Brothers). Ditto for Boulder's Storage Technology (which went bankrupt), as did Necton Bylinnium. Lo and behold!

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