Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. The small size of unicorns allows the top management teams to be directly and deeply involved in most of the strategic decisions, which are then implemented through a flat organization.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P. The workshops encouraged and equipped the operating managers and HR teams to take a fresh look at their workforce goals and options. One example comes from the R&D division.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

At first investors didn’t trust them, but as IBM began meeting and surpassing the targets it set for itself, and Palmisano began inviting the company’s biggest shareholders in for day-long discussions of the company’s strategy, criticism of his leadership faded and the company’s stock began a long upswing.

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. It means changing, step by step, from a traditional functional, siloed organization into a modular one with a loose alliance of autonomous and multidisciplinary teams. Recognize these teams formally and empower them with digital tools, so that they can reach a higher degree of autonomy.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. There will be a very small team. The cross-functional team was thrown into a room together. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.”

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Typically, teams in the field are well aware of the digital threats and opportunities within their area of the organization – usually more so than the corporate center. In essence, he challenged his team to act as a change leader – to disrupt before being disrupted — by interpreting the weak signals coming from the market.

CEO 12

CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

Zero Based Budgeting 9

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

All I’d done was show him and the rest of the executive team a series of other companies’ ads. But since the most senior leadership teams are male-dominated, a lot of what happens in companies ends up reflecting that, including how they look and sound. “I can’t believe we just did that.”

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 Third, Vanguard used the hybrid organizational model, creating a dedicated team that could borrow key capabilities from the core business while not tied to its dominant logic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Not Good at All Google Finally Discloses Its Diversity Record, and It’s Not Good PBS NewsHour Google released its global workforce numbers, revealing that 70% of its employees are men, a number that increases to 83% and 79% if you look only at tech jobs and leadership roles. Two percent of Google employees are black.

Short-term 8

Short-term Mass Marketing Long-term Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. ” And everybody on the team should be savvy on strategy.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. MedStar connects all three portfolios not just through resource allocation but through the constant efforts of the leadership team, which does not delegate this task.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. tax jurisdiction. Breakthrough innovations in high tech certainly have a powerful impact on performance, but they are quite rare.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015. Support from the highest levels of an organization’s leadership provides “air cover” for building the necessary systems and cultural change necessary for this high-touch style of care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. For example, the Russian ruble depreciated from being 37 rubles to the dollar in September 2014, to being close to 70 rubles to the dollar in January 2015. HQ without consulting them.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance. Why does all this matter?

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8