Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer. ” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says. Related Video. What if revenue was higher?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Diana Verde Nieto, the founder of Positive Luxury and main author of the study, makes a compelling case that sustainability and social responsibility are no longer nice-to-have for luxury brands — they are now requirements. The report has some additional good case studies in the watch, leather, diamond, and eco-tourism realms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

of their Medicare reimbursements in Fiscal Year 2015 if they don’t show simultaneous improvements in both process of care measures and patient experience. doctors and nurses), the speed of delivery of help, the explanation of procedures, the management of pain, and the post-treatment instructions for recovery.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Case Study #1: Work elsewhere before climbing the family ladder. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. Completely meld work and family.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

One compelling case study is that of SABMiller. By 2016, SABMiller had brewing operations in around forty of Africa’s fifty-four countries. Mark Bowman was the managing director of SABMiller’s Africa region during that decade. Strategy & Execution BOOK. Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, and Georges Desvaux.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt. We have interviewed Quirky executives and studied each of the company’s product offerings, publicly available product reviews, and their development process. Quirky found that its members didn’t like being managed. Target, Walmart).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In 2015, there was a surplus of people with data science skills. What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. What’s missing, more often than not, is a clear strategy and operational model for using these capabilities in ways that are specific to the company’s business requirements.

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