Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Or you’re an auto-industry executive and you’re excited by a new technology that you could easily build into your latest model—but contracts with suppliers make such an innovation an impossibility this year, and maybe even next year. Deutsche Bank accused Dresdner of inflexibility. The agreement was called off.

Innovation 8

Innovation Retail Banking Price 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

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

The truth is that many change-management efforts fail simply because the vital human component is underappreciated, when in fact it is at the heart of change. The enemy is poor management of change.” The enemy is poor management of change. As Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan says, “Change is not the enemy. Change is not the enemy.

Hotels 126

Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 126

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager. The 180-year-old house of brands hasn’t managed to survive this long without making bold steps in the past.

Brand 10

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 10

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. Experiment with frontier technologies. Digital reinvention only works if companies master the right digital technology architecture.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

In a new follow-up study , we explored how to short-circuit the debilitating effects on a team of a leader describing negative events, such as a potential restructuring or poor sales. As an example, one pair of articles looked at shortages at a local food bank. Jim Whitehurst.

Team 8

Team Restructuring Brainstorming Participative 8

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. Put these four technologies in your tech toolbox. Docs.Zone PDF Converter: docs.zone.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

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.

How To 8

How To Budgeting Self-aware NGO 8

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. Jon Feingersh/Getty Images. The Fayol legacy lingers.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

If you’re, say, an HR manager who happened to take a job at Chobani early on, your compensation suddenly looks considerably better than many of your peers. This segregation isn’t only about hard skills like coding, argues Bloom, pointing to a paper by Christina Håkanson of the Swedish National Bank and her colleagues.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

Never in the history have so many technologies matured at the same time from social, mobile, cloud, artificial intelligence, sensors, quantum computing, and more. The combinatorial effects of these technologies have suddenly accelerated progress exponentially toward the hyperconnected world, we live in today.

Brand 96

Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. And thanks to the way bankruptcy laws were restructured under George W Bush, you can't get out of the college loan even if you become bankrupt. We manage this transition very carefully.

Education 11

Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One consultant commented, for example, that “within the investment-banking community, it is all about platform and brand.”. He offered an example: “I recently recruited a VP Sales and Marketing from a well-known consumer technology company to be the president and COO of a small but fast-growing smart-grid consumer technology-products company.

Reputation 11

Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 11