Building Personal Strength

MARCH 4, 2010

Our company has a great relationship with our banker, one that has endured more than ten years of high-flying and recession free-falling economies. His most recent act of loyalty was to restructure our credit to our advantage, to help us thrive during the recession. infantry company. But what is meant by that, exactly?

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2009, Wilson was part of a Wall Street team that the Obama administration hired to structure the bailout of GM, after the company, once the world’s largest automobile producer, sustained over $88 billion in losses in the previous four years. During the bailout, financial firms, including hedge funds, were nowhere to be found.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Getting to the Heart of Mental Toughness The Importance of Being Purposeful → March 9, 2010 · 4:37 am ↓ Jump to Comments Employee Engagement…What’s in a Name? Elliot Reply Gwyn Teatro March 10, 2010 at 12:27 am You make a good point, Elliot.

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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. Rebel Brown : Best examples would be any of the Zero Gravity Companies I profile on my website.

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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. Ask for help reducing your low-value work from your company’s productivity unit or information technology gurus. million jobs were lost.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. This is precisely what it did with Greece in the first place, by not allowing it to restructure in 2010, and thus building this mountain of debt.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In boom times, companies may face adjustment costs that deter them from adapting to technological change. These patterns are consistent with a restructuring of labor demand towards these skills. Recessions, in contrast, can produce large enough shocks to overcome these frictions. Why might that have happened?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. Can he do it? History suggests Cook's task will be difficult, but not impossible.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. Our research showed that without subsidies, these companies would be bankrupt. In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. billion in 2010. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. or European Union.

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

While the contractions in business activity along global supply chains will cause companies to cut capital investments and inventories, we should remember that this is only the first leg of the phenomenon. Consequently, although companies should cut costs now, they should be on the lookout for the quick rebound that is likely to follow.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

When the slowing economy caused sales to drop slightly the following year, the company started "gasping for cash," as Heffington put it. And when Allen Printing's bank, facing problems of its own in 2010, suddenly called in its loan, the company was so strapped for cash that it had to file for Chapter 11.

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Metrics Working Capital Restructuring Banking 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.). As Boyle wrote, "We are not utilizing the capabilities of the women in our companies. It is a great economic waste.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

When Johnson & Johnson named vice chairman Alex Gorsky as its next CEO, the company concluded a very public succession race that began in 2010 between Gorsky and fellow vice chairman Sheri McCoy. However, one thing is certain: if she leaves, many governance experts will blame the loss on the company's "horse race" succession strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

More companies want far greater flexibility with far fewer people. It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Recent research shows spending money on corporate social responsibility is no longer seen as a detriment to a company’s profitability. Stock analysts now view such expenditures as essential to a company’s long-term brand and value. What is Coca-Cola doing that’s different from what other companies are doing?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions. This time around (looking at 2010 data), the emerging markets account for over 23% of global GDP as opposed to 11% in 1975 (at current, not purchasing power parity, prices, which give them an even greater share).

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Meanwhile, the retirement fund for pensioners of DEO, the state electricity company, continues to receive an annual state subsidy to the tune of €600 million—at a time when most pensions are being slashed. But the 2012 haircut only covered debt held by private creditors (including banks, insurance companies, and pension funds).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

I am a big believer of the symbiotic necessity of large companies and entrepreneurial ventures living side by side: You simply cannot have a flourishing entrepreneurship ecosystem without large companies to cultivate it, intentionally or otherwise. The result?

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Restructuring Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Given the shortage of talented executives, how can companies attract the best and brightest? How does a company become a destination of choice for talent in the aftermath of the financial crisis? To answer these questions, we surveyed several dozen senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm in 2010.

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Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. The leading companies in online search, social media, and e-commerce are all based in one or the other of these two regions. Winner-take-all economics favored the companies in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

And how should Chinese companies and foreign companies doing business in China respond? With the new plan, the composition of the economy is likely to change markedly in the coming years, and companies need to divine, adapt to, and exploit these shifts. What is the significance of the plan?

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Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I talked this over with a woman in top management at a Fortune 75 company. Organizations could, for example, offer greater opportunities for job-sharing, and restructuring professional jobs so that hours of overtime on a weekly or even daily basis is not a routine expectation.

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