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Who's Really Responsible for P&G's Succession Problems?

Harvard Business Review

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management. Where was its leadership bench? Succession planning'

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Are You Paying Enough Attention to Your Sales Force?

Harvard Business Review

According to Selling Power magazine, the largest companies in America selling products such as computer and office equipment, consumable goods, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services, each employ tens of thousands of salespeople. billion spent on all media advertising in 2012 and more than 20 times the estimated $39.5

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. For example, in 2010, Corelio and Concentra, two European media companies, established Coldset Printing Partners, a joint venture (JV) for their newspaper printing assets. The integrated carrier gets incremental revenues from its excess capacity.

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The Cable Guys Need to Come up with a Better Argument

Harvard Business Review

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. The CMO of a telecommunications company, for instance, found the biggest spike in churn came when customers moved. With its 2012 London Olympics sponsorship it resolved to optimize its ads in real time. Standardize customer data.