Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". Such capabilities could be rapid-cycle product development, point of sale merchandising, large-scale fabrication, and so on. Define precisely how your way to play adds value for your chosen customers (e.g.,

Strategy 15

Strategy Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. Everyone shops at Aldi.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Harry Gordon Selfridge, who founded the eponymous London-based retailer, did the unthinkable when he opened his first store in 1909, taking merchandise out from behind the counters so that customers could actually touch it. I want merchandise that people will desire. Innovation Leadership Retail'

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail Gordon Price 8

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. As fast as we could pin an idea on the wall, some red-faced account manager in a bad suit would run away with it. But even artists have to eat, and the fuel of commerce and industry is innovation and novelty. Let’s trade. Will work for food!”

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8