Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

He is an advisor to business leaders from a variety of organizations throughout the world, including major Fortune 500 companies, as well as private and nonprofit institutions in industries such as aerospace, healthcare, government, professional associations, telecommunications, and finance.

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Resistance Download eBook Newsletter 56

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If you suffer from analysis paralysis, procrastination, timidity, a lack of courage or confidence, being indecisive, or being in over your head, there is trouble looming. Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. For example, if you’re a brand marketer, you might give yourself an “A” in advertising development, a “B+” in pricing analysis, “C” in trade marketing, etc.

Career 15

Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Our analysis has uncovered that entirely new categories of jobs are being created. Sponsored by SAS. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations.

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Power Engineering Analysis Training 11

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 11, 2022

If an organization’s workforce and resources are spread thin just attending to daily upkeep and scrambling to meet complex regulatory demands, it will have little time and energy left to focus on profitability. Such essential areas as risk, compliance, treasury, and finance often make use of disparate databases and reporting tools.

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Strategy Management Compliance Agility 117

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I once hired someone with excellent “pedigree” i.e. fine university training, JA program volunteer, excellent work record in finance and extraordinarily enthusiastic about Junior Achievement. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs. I was blind to the fact that he was a bit “uppity” and often talked down to people.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Pay Equity Analysis: How to Create Fair Salary Structures With the number of tools and data collection resources available to us, it’s impossible for companies to claim ignorance of the pay disparity and the struggles personally encountered by their employees. The gathered data needs to be reviewed in detail.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Founding CEOs realize—or fail to realize—that their maniacal energy and personal devotion can only take their enterprises so far. Yet those resources don't exist in the social enterprise market—even though the need is essentially the same. At later stages (£5M+), it can come from debt and other forms of financing.

Finance 9

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. As a coach I have two different “markets”—my students at Stanford and my private clients, who are primarily senior leaders, and in both settings my degree sends a useful signal.

Supply Chain 20

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 20

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2020

There are periods when markets get choppy, and you may lose confidence. This practice also makes you more disciplined while allowing you to acquire a moderate approach to spending (your money, time, energy, emotional, and physical resource). Micro investing apps automize personal finance investing daily. Have a Plan.

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Short-term Real Estate Long-term Strategy 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

For example, if you enjoy analysis but not sales, can you adjust your responsibilities in that direction? One participant from Berg, Dutton, and Wrzesniewski’s research redesigned her marketing job to include more event planning, even though it wasn’t originally part of her job. If all else fails, make a change.

Career 15

Career Micromanagement Organizational Behavior Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

The energy-trading company had a very high ROA. This sort of trend analysis will tell you the direction your company’s financial health is headed in. Financial analysis. When you’re interpreting the calculation, it’s the book value you’re looking at, not the market value, which may be different.

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ROE Banking Comparison Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

In many cases, integration efforts can take up so much time, energy, and attention that managers and employees are distracted from their day-to-day roles. A deal team is made up of professionals covering all aspects of the integration, including experts from business operations, legal, tech, and finance. Create a dedicated deal team.

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Operations Brand Ryan COO 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Consider the story of Bud Frankel, the founder of Frankel , a firm that created the marketing services industry (where both of us eventually worked) that gained a national reputation and attracted clients across both the consumer and healthcare areas. Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel.

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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. But the past is merely a prologue. How best to draw actionable inspiration from Grove?

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Energy, creativity, and activity are all good things — but they don't create value unless results are achieved. By the same token, when these same companies talk about the "quality of their current research pipeline," they have no way of knowing what will actually make it to market since over 95% of drug projects fail.

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Short-term Pharmaceuticals Long-term Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

This Yiddish term, indispensable in the analysis of many business interactions, means variously a person who gets things done, a big shot, a schemer, and someone with a lot of plans. Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. And what risks did he run?

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts!

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The time, energy, and cost associated with acquiring a customer are substantial, the benefits of retaining customers are considerable, and the costs associated with customer churn are significant. Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing.

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Blog Brand Cost Bottom-up 345

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. Further analysis confirms that this trend is not just due to acquisitions; the companies are delisted sooner even when the sample is constricted only to those delisted for financial troubles. stock exchanges.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

And yet there’s room for even more industry growth, and more savings for American consumers: a recent study my team conducted found that antiquated regulations are costing the growing solar market an additional $70 billion. To understand why, we have to start by looking at the market for solar.

Technology 8

Technology Energy System Cost 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

An analysis of business encompasses much more than accounting fraud and stated values of stocks. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

This logic and the institutions that reinforce it, like competitive markets and the rule of law, have transformed the world and lifted billions of people from poverty. You have to approach these problems as a manager and do the best analysis you can, including hard-headed financial analysis.

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ROI Long-term Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. ” We needed a clear idea of how the analysis would create business value. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.

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Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In general, managing energy bills has traditionally been a pretty low priority for most corporations. For all but a few process-focused companies or those with energy-intensive facilities such as data centers, the utility bill is generally filed under the list of uncontrollable, take-it-or-leave-it costs of doing business.

Management 8

Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Are these recent wage increases merely necessary in light of a tightening labor market, or could they start a broader trend that may change our economic growth trajectory? This is reflected in slowing growth expectations in many markets. The Economy in 2018. First, the economies of scale effect. in 2014 to 2020.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Thanks to easy access to data sets, advanced data analysis techniques, and the very public nature of social networks, we are able to look at how companies listed on the major London and New York stock exchanges communicate with their customers as a way to gauge which are the best and worst at displaying empathy. Measuring empathy.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. So do some older, family-controlled firms, such as Ford Motor Co.

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Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

The NewsHour reports that these stats seem slightly more lopsided than other tech companies’, though an analysis by Mother Jones shows a pretty sad demographic profile at the top 10 Silicon Valley firms, particularly among executives. Two percent of Google employees are black. So you have to find a partner to have one (and buy two at a time).

Short-term 8

Short-term Mass Marketing Long-term Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

In fact, venture capital financing may even be detrimental to your startup’s health. But so is raising capital, which demands a lot of time and energy on its own. If you’re raising money before traction is in hand, so-called “market risk” is higher than if demand has already been proven. Pandering to VCs is a distraction.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning. VC investment in cleantech “has declined sharply since 2011” according to a new analysis by the Brookings Institution.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Two impressive pieces of analysis made the case that moving to a clean economy is profitable – both for society and for the private sector. The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). But the old guard of the energy business made it clear that they aren’t planning to change.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

We witnessed a monumental event in a shareholder resolution calling on ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest publicly listed energy company, to disclose the impact on its business under a 2-degree scenario. But another major action last week points in the opposite direction and leaves us more optimistic.

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Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. A shift toward protectionism.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10