Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. In financial engineering, PE investors provide strong equity incentives to the management teams of their portfolio companies.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

Real Estate 353

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 353

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. Business students are taught to value a company based on the discounted amounts of future cash flows or earnings.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. Fleet vehicle operators now directly engage with IoT devices that can measure their physical condition as well as their driving behavior.

Technology 8

Technology B2B B2C Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

This new view and way of operating actually helps companies come closer to achieving the ideal of giving customers what they want, when, where and how they want it. Discount furniture maker IKEA engages customers in assembling their own furniture, a process that allows them to customize as well. In effect, they could now build robots.

Company 14

Company Software Call Center Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. But this was not the first time its policies were violated. .”

Company 8

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

As Feng Zhu and Nathan Furr observe in their article “ Products to Platforms: Making the Leap “: “In a product business model, firms create value by developing differentiated products for specific customer needs, and they capture value by charging money for those items. Do stock-outs and delivery delays still matter?

Process 9

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

An industrial paint application product/service that reduces toxic solvent use by 70% and is saving customers, mostly auto repair shops, $2 billion from simpler paint operations and reduced waste. Bottom line: sustainability is deeply integrated in 3M's innovation pipeline, which is the engine of the company.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. To incentivize visitors to bring in more old shoes, Adidas Brazil promotes the program in stores by showing videos to educate customers, and it even offers a discount each time a customer brings in an old pair of shoes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. They’re used to fuel cement kilns.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

There was no need to make a telephone call to a distant operator; all the farmer needed to do was log in and order. Farmers, alone for hours on end in the fields driving their tractors, looked forward to calling the operator to place their orders. Strava engineered social motivation for athletes. They enjoyed the company.

Simon 8

Simon Call Center Motivation Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. An edited version of our conversation follows. Insight Center.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Granted, we don't have a long history in cars like Nissan does, but our power electronics engineering is every bit as good. Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart, long the dominant discount chain had gotten comfortable with its leads over competitors. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Business development. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

What follows describes how German manufacturers in particular are rewriting the rules for industry globally on several fronts: Idea to production : It used to be that every new car model required 20 extra hours of work driven by quality issues or purely unplanned changes that its designers and engineers required. Insight Center.

Industry 8

Industry Automotive Supply Chain Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. The solution that Fayez and his team have developed correlates customer behaviors and their interactions with the retailer’s online product catalog.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. GE’s first additive manufacturing facility , a plant in Alabama, is set to make nozzles for jet engines.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

The experts — middle management, analysts, engineers, consultants — aren’t asked to provide a comprehensive view of possible futures and their probability of occurring. Operations in a Connected World. Much of the failure of long-term strategizing arises not from its difficulty but from confusion about how to do it.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Supply Chain Outsourcing Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Setting such goals is important, of course, but you first need to develop trust. And the small win is the shortest way towards developing trust: it helps partners to learn about one another and develop informal rules of collaboration. They tend to focus instead on mobilizing their stakeholders around big, audacious goals.

Company 8

Company Construction Seminar Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital. So if companies should value growth more than margins these days, why don’t they?

ROE 10

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

This perspective created the industrial economy lens through which most managers perceive their operations. A presentation developed for a conference does not produce much value until it is actually presented, an event which may occur weeks or months after the document is completed. Technology investments work the same way.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Instead of operating top-down, power is distributed throughout the organization, giving individuals and teams more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to the organization’s purpose. Concern for community: Cooperatives work for the sustainable development of their communities through policies approved by their members.

Organization 62

Organization ESOP Cooper Reis 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

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. Imagine, if you will, a car engine so woefully inefficient that only 13% of the gas it consumes actually combusts.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. In the private sector, for instance, software developers, petroleum engineers, and data scientists were found to be in high demand.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. Instead of having journalists developing content, disruptors largely feature platforms that simplify content creation and distribution.

Business Model 8

Business Model Media Industry Advertising 8

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. Two developments bear noting.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9