Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? P&L impact or other financial impact.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

After all, sales experience feeds the types of line jobs — where individuals have P&L accountability — that are a pipeline to the C-suite. This helps explain why the number of women CEOs in Fortune 500 companies appears stuck around 3%. She said, "My company is paying a lot of attention to me now."

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P&L McKinsey Consensus Committee 16

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

He is, to some, a kind of hero who has the temerity to expose and deride the cultural norms of his company… one guy against the Establishment uniformed in uber casual jeans, flip flops and attitude. Zappos.com is one such company. In response to “what else?&# (since I don’t work for a company) here are some thoughts.

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Video P&L Blog Long-term 44

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The job of the senior executive is much more complicated today than it was a decade or two ago — and that trend will continue, especially if you hope to play on a global stage (which is a nearly universal condition these days for many companies). Companies are increasingly global. Here are five reasons.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

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. Yet, only 30 percent of companies believe they understand their customers’ needs well enough to identify what initiatives will drive growth.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. Deere & Company developed a small tractor, the 35-horsepower Krish, built and priced specifically for the India market, competing head on with the Indian market leader, Mahindra & Mahindra.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

But going global is easier said than done — especially for smaller companies. One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. Small companies tend to lack the infrastructure and controls of large companies, and our monthly in-person meetings helped overcome that.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Clinging to obsolete definitions and viewpoints have a way of perpetuating companies into downward spirals. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Each branch has its proper responsibility and should learn to interface with the others.

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P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

At one point in the discussion, one of the panelists, a director on a Fortune 500 company BoD, shared this insight: "If a board already has one woman on their board, it is unlikely — actually impossible — to elect another. [.] Many have argued it just makes good business sense to create diversity.

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P&L Diversity Learning-by-Doing Goal 13

Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

That’s despite the fact that there has been so much discussion about the need for boardroom diversity and more diversity in the C-suites, particularly for women to fill more of these positions. Getting more women on boards begins with getting more women in mission-critical P&L roles. in Latin America.

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P&L Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Mentor 256

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Whereas Gerstner famously declared "the last thing IBM needs is a vision," Palmisano had a clear vision for the company. Directness.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. In one manufacturing company, a task force learned that leaders tended to hire and promote people, mainly men, whose backgrounds and careers resembled their own. It would be easier, I was told.

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Education P&L Constraint Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Problem 1: Calling it Diversity. Whoever came up with the idea of putting gender issues under the diversity umbrella? How did women, who are 50% of the population, control 60% of global spending, and represent 60% of university graduates, ever accept to be positioned as a "diversity" demographic? Problem 2: Setting Killer KPIs.

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Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Given the shortage of talented executives, how can companies attract the best and brightest? How does a company become a destination of choice for talent in the aftermath of the financial crisis? They also observe how executives negotiate, what matters most to them in hiring contracts, and how they decide whether to change companies.

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Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation and email address. You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. Welcome, welcome." What sort of help?"

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Research shows that gender balance happens in companies only if it is personally and forcefully led by the CEO. The reality is that many of the companies starting to look truly balanced are or were led by men. It’s pretty easy: See who’s on the company’s executive team. Now look at P&G or McDonald’s.

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P&L CEO Competitive Advantage McKinsey 8