Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. Take newspapers.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations. [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.]. The agenda was always the same, and it was a marathon day.

P&L 15

P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Should you take a more targeted approach, with a short-term executive education program? As an adjunct professor for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business , I’ve taught multiple classes for degree programs, as well as executive education offerings. Start by looking at the job you’re aiming for. Learning.

P&L 8

P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. It’s not uncommon for our executives to acknowledge our team’s accomplishments during company-wide presentations. This enables developers to quickly and effectively write code that is more secure from the start.

Team 8

Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

But even as these old ideas remain in use (and indeed, are still taught), management as it is practiced by the most thoughtful executives evolves. Townes, and Henry L. Gantt – developed theories that emphasized efficiency, lack of variation, consistency of production, and predictability.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Instead, chief executives are often presented with two “right” answers, but one is slightly worse. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

As Tommy Bamford and Jane Oldenburg drove into the visitor section of Westmid Builders' car park, Jane pointed out the man they had come to see: Steve Houghton, Westmid's purchasing executive. These deductions, which totaled 12% of sales, had previously been collapsed into a single line item in the P&L for each customer.

Case Study 14

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Face facts: Most boards invest heavily in executive assessments, exposing chief-executive candidates to C-suite responsibilities and checking their P&L performance — while simultaneously scanning outside prospects. Thompson, the former CEO of Symantec, leads its search committee, and he is joined by Steve J.

CEO 8

CEO Committee P&L Charan 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In order to allocate funds for innovation initiatives, Atrius Health’s leaders created a new department with its own P&L. This idea of keeping people in their homes became a powerful mantra for the team and drove the development of Care in Place. Develop a complete understanding of the system. Protect the work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Yet for the all the effort that is put into selecting, training and assessing leaders, there still seems to be a dearth of truly top-level executive talent. When leaders come up short, as they often do, the problem may have less to do with them as individuals than with the top-down structures in which they operate.

P&L 8

P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I'll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. Akamai Going Forward.

P&L 13

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Generally speaking, executives are compensated for things under their control: moving projects along, the stewardship of a P&L, and for the company hitting financial targets. Bonuses are awarded for moving programs along, some of which could have started years before this executive’s arrival.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

For example, the French global energy player ENGIE recently tilted its primary dimension from product (such as power, services, and infrastructure) toward region in order to better serve its clients in the territories in which it operates. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

Organization 8

Organization P&L Report Finance 8

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. They can seek out sponsors and others to support and develop them in those roles. In our work with leadership development programs, we focus on a "small wins" approach to change. It would be easier, I was told.

Education 8

Education P&L Constraint Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.” Bratton and Michael L. This debate is happening because in Halliburton Co.

Training 8

Training Class Efficiency Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

If you were operating based on rational self-interest one could argue that you would buy as many tickets as possible. Based on many years as a business founder, executive, and advisor, I would argue that getting the deal closed requires an appreciation for one key principle about decision makers that many of us get wrong.

P&L 8

P&L Due Diligence CIO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. Palma Cay's first month," he said.

Case Study 10

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 369