Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. The advent of digital banking, encompassing features like robo-advisors and mobile payment systems, has significantly benefited both consumers and businesses. FinTech companies are putting a new twist on financial concepts.

Finance 108

Finance Technology BPM Company 108

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector.

Banking 12

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Alas, the EU Task Force has done a poor job so far, having neither the mandate nor the skill for the massive change management project required to allow the administration’s more progressive and capable civil servants to push aside the antiquated mentalities that still define Greek public service.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Banking Media Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

You’re an executive of a clothing retailer and your marketing team detects a new trend that you’re well-positioned to feed. They get locked into detailed agreements that turn out to be poorly aligned with their aspirations and that provide no room for innovation when markets change. Deutsche Bank accused Dresdner of inflexibility.

Innovation 8

Innovation Retail Banking Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs.

Brand 10

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. Both governments have now injected billions into these ailing banks, to the detriment of their respective debt profiles. percent to 102.9

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

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. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

As well as helping me understand how hard it is to run an organization, they show me how they are managing to adapt — or not — to changing organizational structures. One of the wonderful things about being a coach is that I meet hundreds of executives who freely share their business and leadership challenges with me.

Restructuring 15

Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

"Our top line was growing, but the bottom line was not moving much and we had drawn down a lot on our bank credit line," he says. And when Allen Printing's bank, facing problems of its own in 2010, suddenly called in its loan, the company was so strapped for cash that it had to file for Chapter 11.

Metrics 8

Metrics Working Capital Restructuring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

In these ratings, companies including Siemens, Google, Costco, Deutsche Bank, and ArcelorMittal were classified as “asleep” because they have exclusively male executive teams. Siemens , for instance, does not currently have any women on the managing board. Europe, and Asia. However, until very recently, there were two.

Diversity 8

Diversity Execution Commitment Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We wrote about our adventure nearly a year ago in The Atlantic, but as we thought more about our interaction with Tejon Ranch’s managers, we realized there were valuable lessons that we wanted to share with the corporate leaders who are likely to confront the risk of an activist campaign. The team was polite and respectful.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. joshua sortino/unsplash. In any case, at those tipping points the decision becomes relatively easy, as digital rules.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. It reached a peak on June 12 and then proceeded to lose over 40% of its value by the end of August despite efforts by the Chinese government to prop up the market. Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

It dents your self-esteem; it’s tough on your bank account; and if you’re not smart about your next steps, it can derail your career. We can manage without you.’ All in all, “getting laid off is a manageable setback on the scale of human experience,” Lees says. Losing your job is hard. Go camping.

How To 8

How To Budgeting Self-aware NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

They pay upwards of $300K to $1 million to consultancy firms that conduct market analyses and in-depth need-finding, identify new opportunities, generate promising ideas, and, often, develop ideas into working prototypes. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. A Different Approach.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The company will also need to hire an investment bank to handle the underwriting of the deal. Because IPOs involve the complete restructuring of the company’s ownership, there are many details that need to be ironed out. And worst of all, many IPOs never get completed due to market downturns.

IPO 62

IPO Real Estate Cost Company 62

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While having the right education is an essential asset in today’s cutthroat job market, it can become difficult to obtain a position without experience using various applications and technologies that enhance and amplify one’s resume. Appsbar: www.appsbar.com. One does not have to be tech-savvy to create an app within just a few hours.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Consider the Dutch financial services firm ING Bank.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

“The biggest leadership challenge is to create the future while managing the present across the entire organization.” “Consumers today are tired of marketers and being constantly marketed to. Consumers today are tired of marketers and being constantly marketed to. ” -Erich Joachimsthaler.

Brand 96

Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One consultant commented, for example, that “within the investment-banking community, it is all about platform and brand.”. Candidates also appraise a firm’s future prospects, market competitiveness, and business strategy. He saw the upside in this hot market sector and the opportunity to lead and mentor a young team.”.

Reputation 11

Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 11

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2017

Currently, it looks like the UK will be excluded from the Single Market once they leave the European Union. Some companies, which trade throughout Europe and the UK, will have to restructure their companies to suit new laws. Being out of the Single Market doesn’t mean that the UK wouldn’t be able to trade with Europe.

Restructuring 50

Restructuring Course Retail Banking 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Part of the decline can be explained by the sharp depreciation of the bolivar, but for the most part it reflects proactive decisions by multinationals to exit the market.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8