Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Its opening sentence: "Despite another quarter of robust corporate profits, an ominous impulse is stirring at many big companies — restructuring.". Spooked by prospects of sluggish revenue growth in 2012, some large companies, already quite lean, are making plans to slash jobs.

Restructuring 10

Restructuring Open-book Creativity Motivation 10

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. The years of the Great Recession saw many big mergers aimed at restructuring assets and cutting costs. IBM’s surveys of top executives have picked up on this trend.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. It isn’t only the branded pundits who are neglecting these issues.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

” In 2012 the Commonwealth Bank restructured its evaluation system so that 75% of CEO incentives came from the bank’s total shareholder return (TSR), relative to a set peer group, and 25% from customer-satisfaction results, benchmarked against another peer group.

TSR 8

TSR Banking Committee Incentives 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.".

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

Intel’s restructuring announcement last week describes its plans to reduce headcount by 12,000, or 11% of its workforce, and to seek growth in markets such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Center Processing.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Advantage Technology Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

This led them to theorize that high working memory capacity might be especially detrimental to specific aspects of solving insight problems (such as restructuring them). 2012), or solving problems at one’s nonoptimal time of day (Wieth & Zacks, 2011).” How counterintuitive is this?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Participative Process Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

By March 2012 unemployment was 24.1 percent and youth unemployment reached 29 percent in early 2012. There is almost always a debt restructuring and financial repression, sometimes taking the form of capital controls. The banking collapse has led, inexorably, to a collapse in the real economy. So what is to be done?

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

Brand 9

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

That trust made a big difference in 2012, when an activist investor challenged us to restructure the company. All of this was invaluable, and it wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t made myself vulnerable in the first place.

CEO 8

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Management Charisma 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%. If the Chinese government sticks to its decision to stop funding unprofitable solar-panel manufacturers and support a revamping of the industry, more bankruptcies and restructurings are sure to follow.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

million viewers since 2012. Even without the government’s defeat in this case, more media restructuring is inevitable. In 2017 Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon dominated the Emmy awards , scoring 125 nominations. Netflix is now worth more than Comcast or Disney. Traditional pay TV services continue to lose subscribers, down nearly 7.5

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

The constant saturation of negative school headlines took its toll: The public’s approval rating of public schools fell from 58% in 1973 to 29% in 2012. To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades. ” And yet, for decades, teachers have endured.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sovereign debtors can overcome collective action problems in restructurings by including ex-ante contractual provisions in the bond documentation that make it more difficult for dissenting creditors to hold out and litigate their claims, and using ex-post negotiating strategies that encourage collective action amongst creditors.

Bond 8

Bond Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. PE’s proponents say this disparaging view doesn’t add up. ” Private equity has grown immensely over the past three decades.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

This would have been primarily a reallocation of some of the 2012 funds we didn’t use because of reduced staffing levels. The only bad news is that the steering committee turned down my request of €2 million in additional funds for the 2013 budget. So I’ve been cutting costs like crazy, mostly by reducing the time scheduled for future tasks.”

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

A company’s starting point determines the characteristics of its overhead structure that, barring a major restructuring, it will carry throughout its life. In 2012, the Model X was expected to cost approximately $50,000 but Tesla now says that it will cost approximately the same as a comparably equipped Model S.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

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.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 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. The Walmart bribery scandal is one of the most closely-watched cases of alleged malfeasance by a global company.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8