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. After a careful analysis of the market, the organization decided instead to grow first within London, a market that can easily support a fourfold expansion of its social impact on young children.

Finance 9

Finance Franchising Business Model Analysis 9

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. You likely won’t make an investment decision or operations decision based on just one of these numbers, or even both of them. Take Enron.

ROE 8

ROE Banking Comparison Industry 8

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. Practical leadership and management skills. Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades.

Supply Chain 20

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 20

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.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

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

APRIL 28, 2015

“We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.” As the agency grew, Bud appointed an agency leadership team and focused his energies on scaling up the company’s unique value proposition. ” Bud sought outside counsel on the fairest way to fix the issue, namely, to break up the partnership.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Better analysis of those insights can improve marketing return on investment (MROI) by 10-20 percent and drive average profit growth of 14 percent. Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Ironically, analysis revealed that several processes intended to boost employee productivity led to dissatisfied customers making multiple calls.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right? Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing.

Blog 345

Blog Brand Cost Bottom-up 345

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. Cost Savings. alone, according to the US.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. Cost Savings. alone, according to the US.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. An analysis of business encompasses much more than accounting fraud and stated values of stocks. Operational Statistics. people steal $20,000 from coin-operated machines. 90% of all e-businesses will fail.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Some focus their best people on finding ways to squeeze out more profitability from existing operations, rather than creating new businesses. Pareto analysis) is to limit the field of potential options, focusing the company’s precious capital on a few “sure bets.”

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced. ” We needed a clear idea of how the analysis would create business value.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You have to approach these problems as a manager and do the best analysis you can, including hard-headed financial analysis. The shareholder asked Cook about the company’s renewable energy efforts and told him that Apple should only undertake such efforts if they were profitable.

ROI 8

ROI Long-term Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals 8

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

JULY 12, 2017

trillion in wages are automatable by today’s technology, which could open the door to new ways to harness human energy as well as to displacing routine jobs and increasing social inequities. There is both anticipation and apprehension about what lies on the other side of the threshold of the “second machine age.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. Constant analysis will allow you to improve your strategy, offering opportunities to be reactive, which will pay off. (No No answer) 36. But yes, they do! Hire a specialist.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. Two impressive pieces of analysis made the case that moving to a clean economy is profitable – both for society and for the private sector. In the U.S.,

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.

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. Take the idea of a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

Along the same lines, a large meta-analysis showed that team members’ personalities influence cooperation, shared cognition, information sharing, and overall team performance. For instance, we worked with a finance team charged with rolling out a novel business reporting product for transforming the culture of a staid government agency.

Skills 8

Skills Team Cooper Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

While some might be enthused by the potential for corporate tax reform or a (promised) $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan, it’s more likely they’re referring to the historic rollback of regulations in the works across many sectors , from fossil fuels to mining, guns, and finance.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Short-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation. Perhaps more important for an analysis of near-term Cuba policy, this non-event took place in the context of an expanding fiscal crisis for the Cuban government.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Long-term GDP 8