Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste.

Brand 9

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Do you perpetuate these productivity-destroying falsehoods at your company? Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer. Management is chaotic by nature. You don't have to sell Apple products.). by Steve W.

Blog 15

Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

With the rise of distributed forms of energy, such as rooftop solar power, and batteries , it’s become much more feasible to match individual demand for electricity with on-site production. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

If you want to boost the productivity of your organization’s human capital, you also have to deploy those high performers effectively — put them to work so they can deliver the results they’re capable of. The team transformed Gap’s products and stores and helped the company grow faster than any other retail brand at the time.

Team 8

Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And while some question whether such special treatment is appropriate , it’s clear that this group has outsize influence: high-performers have been estimated to be four times as productive as average workers, and research has shown that they may generate 80% of a business’s profits and attract other star employees.

Attrition 8

Attrition Charisma Cost Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

When Bain & Company examined the talent management practices of more than 300 large companies worldwide, we discovered that the most productive and best-performing organizations cluster their star talent in a few business-critical roles. Objectively assess the current skills and capabilities of your workforce to identify gaps.

Company 10

Company Insurance Engineering Software 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Investors preferred new SaaS products over product conversions and valued having a product fallback option.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. Startups, on the other hand, aren’t debt financed, because they’re too risky and unproven, and have no assets—not so appealing to lenders. Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

With no means to track sales, little data is available, and channels are too fragmented for companies to forecast production and distribution with any degree of accuracy. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings. Make it personal.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. IT management' There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5 Accountability.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Employers increasingly focus on employee wellness, on one side, and disease management, on the other. A third signal is that health care financing is testing these pathways too. What Business Are We In?

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). For example, in 2012, Intel, TSMC, and Samsung — three large semiconductor manufacturers based in the U.S.,

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Goldman Sachs did something it had never done in its venerable 143-year history. For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Limited users are free to draft tweets and updates, which are then fed into approval queues for manager review. It tweeted. "We

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In the first half of 2012, thousands of merger and acquisition deals were announced globally, worth more than $900 billion. To reduce the risks however, there are two steps that managers can take to make sure their firms are ready for the challenges of integration before committing to an actual deal. Odds are the answer is yes.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Although Kodak had a slow start, it did, in fact, manage a miraculous, successful digital transformation. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch A misunderstood story.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

While activism takes many different forms, it usually begins with investors holding private conversations with company management on the need to change a process, business model, or management practice. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because no one is managing the store. According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. Unlike the world of the CFO, management and staff generally do what they like when it comes to creating and (not) disposing of information, creating a cavernous gap in accountability.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For example, JC Penney’s CEO, Ron Johnson, suffered a 97% pay cut in 2012 due to poor performance. A paper in the Journal of Finance found that firms that give CEOs high equity incentives outperform those with low equity incentives by 4-10%/year. A study showed that the introduction of incentive pay boosted productivity by 44%.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. Shiller and his allies posit that this excess volatility is the product of investor error, herd behavior, feedback loops and the like. (My Apple Disruptive innovation Finance'

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

has renewed its product lines many times. Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. ” Former CEOs bring a lot, he has found, as do experts on risk management.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. Diverse teams must find ways to work together productively, and often the best ways of working may seem counterintuitive.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management.

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. We should also question the assumption that investor preference for quick returns limits managers’ ability to invest in the future.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda. Breakthrough Finance. Breakthrough Activism.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

This pact follows a February 2012 agreement between B of A, Citi, JPM, Wells Fargo and Ally with State Attorneys General and federal authorities to pay $26 billion for similar failings. billion to homeowners. Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g. Ally Financial and HSBC Holdings).

Finance 8

Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. After the recession, for instance, one large lender made a practice of looking for “rehab” customers whose credit suffered in the downturn but who had since managed to achieve more stable incomes.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. billion in 2012. in 2012; 5.4% in 2012; 5.4%

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 22, 2022

What does a manager do? The responsibilities of a manager vary from company to company. In some organizations, managers are responsible for overseeing the performance of their employees, whereas, in other companies, managers are responsible for supervising the activities of their subordinates. Performance management.

Management 52

Management Human Resources Strategic Planning Skills 52