HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. We suggest: Establishing “adjusted” financial objectives that reduce the impact of the ongoing crisis. Spanish flu). Sales Compensation.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. Solving the current crisis may be turn out to be Europe's biggest step forward. It would carry traumatic and long-lasting consequences.

Crisis 14

Crisis Consensus Banking Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

A looming crisis. First, it’s important to understand the magnitude of the coming congestion crisis and its underlying drivers. The Future of Operations. Product overstocks result in discounted prices, which are usually about half to two-thirds of the gross margin. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The country in question was Ireland — today, in deep crisis because of profligate banks. And perhaps failing to recognize that is what's really at the root of this great crisis. So why were the Irish of yesteryear able to trade notes with one another, in lieu of credit issued by banks?

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Decentralization 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, super discounters such as Aldi, Lidl, and Amazon are further squeezing already thin food retail margins for large retailers. To curb this food waste, grocery chains such as Asda (Wal-Mart) and Morrisons are experimenting with selling “wonky” vegetables at discount prices.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

I call companies who operate this way " conscious businesses " because they understand that health care should not be only about containing costs — it should be about helping people lead healthy, vibrant, fulfilling lives. There are four additional levels of discounts based on the team member's score, from 22% to 30%.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Marketing Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Many analysts and unhappy investors point to Tesco’s ill-fated Fresh & Easy convenience store foray in America just as the global financial crisis kicked in. At the same time, dramatically increased price competition by discounters such as Aldi severely undercut Tesco’s “every little helps” value proposition.

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Supply Chain Discount 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

There is a tendency to discount this work because it is viewed, by some, as being less important and the people who produce it, as little more than overhead. For me, creating fluency means building and operating systems that are unimpeded by interests that do not serve the raison d’être of the organization.

Organization 44

Organization Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 44

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 28, 2009

It only means that if someone has something to say, they can feel confident that whatever it is, will not be instantly discounted or in any way disparaged. This, in addition to establishing other operating principles for the time participants are together, makes for an environment where people can feel comfortable speaking their minds.

Abilene Paradox 40

Abilene Paradox Blog Long-term Project 40

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. 85% of the time, planning and forethought will avert the crisis.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Early on in my career, I had a boss who discounted my ability to connect with clients. As CEO Sandra Urie explained after a recent 100WHF event, "During the recent global financial crisis, we made the decision not to lay off any of our employees. And to another: "Every day, I notice how meticulously you attend to operations.

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Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

This is refreshing statement; many executives would have berated their employees for not keeping the faith while a company faced its biggest crisis. Since Sun made hardware and software, only Sun machines running the Sun operating system were allowed. (In Don't Enforce a Monoculture.

Software 13

Software Wireless B2B Library 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

That is, until a crisis forced them to wake up. Internal operational issues including execution, budgets, and deadlines are paramount in a company’s deliberation, but what other players will do is hardly ever in focus. .” What Did Peter Drucker Really Say?

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? Cathy Benko, a vice chairman at Deloitte, has been studying the various ways companies are working to prevent a skills crisis while transforming for the digital world. Are we risking institutional ageism when we discount tenure in this way?

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

beyond creating an easy money situation through reduction of discount rates, there is very little, if anything, that the reserve organization can do to bring about recovery.". The European Union forgot to build a fiscal instrument and that's why they have a Euro crisis. The problem in the Eurozone is even more extreme.

Short-term 11

Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

How should you address a mid-career crisis? ” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” Don’t: Discount the power of making small changes to your routine and environment. Consider a lateral move. Wait around for opportunities.

Career 13

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis. Why buy clothes at its Kmart stores rather than at trendier Target?

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. As for me, I''m happily uninvolved!

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

To answer the question of how prices would be affected, it needed only to look at existing markets where one player operated but not the other. By any measure, the industry is approaching a licensed spectrum capacity crisis. At that rate, carriers will hit their maximum capacity in a few years.

Wireless 12

Wireless Report Price Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. That’s because overload is a surmountable crisis—under the right leadership. Fortunately, these failures didn’t spell the end for the company. Were we a price cutter?

Company 8

Company IPO Price Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 times global GDP).

ROE 12

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The results were amazing.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Management forecasts the future coupon payments (or cash flows) associated with various strategies and then selects the one that has the highest discounted value. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Strategic and operational paralysis has become the norm. Too many operational changes. Product discounting is chronic. Political animals rise in the corporate pecking order. Pessimism becomes the common cultural thread. Innovation is something other companies do. Resumes are being up-dated and posted online.

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Absenteeism Short-term Long-term Strategic Planning 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

They are frequently caught out by the future and seldom change in the absence of a crisis. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation. First, they are inertial.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue? · Theme: Pilcrow by Automattic

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System Blog Diversity Operations 43

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In this election, the campaign has a very large in-house data team dealing with all kinds of targeting analytics and also the online operations. And also, I should, in fairness, acknowledge that the Romney campaign also is taking its place here and has a much more robust targeting and digital operation than John McCain did.

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8