Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It can bring plenty of benefits to a company – a whole new array of potential customers and the opportunity to operate in a less saturated market. However, it does come with risks – expanding is expensive and you’ll be operating in unfamiliar territory. Take due diligence with selecting your team members.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2024

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. There’s no reason to limit due diligence to the context of an acquisition. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Talk to current tenants, look for local businesses and services, and read online reviews to better understand what the neighborhood has to offer. Check the Landlord’s Background: Like any other contract, it is important to do your due diligence before signing a lease agreement.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Their background in operations of a business often makes them more suitable to do the detail work. 4 - Provide due diligence. I know some angel groups like Golden Seeds do awesome due diligence but on the whole, VCs are better than Angels at it. This coaching can add significantly to the value.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Even a cursory review of current events shows it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to capture an opportunity, timing is everything – timing is leadership. As the saying goes “timing is everything.”

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

Legal liability is reduced, and the stability of your operations increases. When you’re new to risk management or risk management tools, it’s vital you do your due diligence research. One last tip is to read as many risk management software reviews as you can. People and assets are protected from harm.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

In this scenario too, the performance review often becomes something we do to people rather than with them. Hopefully then, we can agree that while the principle of performance review is sound, where it often falls short is in the execution of the process. Like going to the dentist for root canal, it has that tinge of dread about it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

A normal acquisition process seeks to ensure something basic: a strategic rationale for a deal, supported by a thoughtful selection process, with known risks identified by a short, intense due diligence. What this requires is doing some integration due diligence as part of the M&A process.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

If, for example, a large tech company finds itself with a huge volume of procurement contracts that all have varying renewal dates and renegotiation terms, it would require hundreds of hours and a team of contract managers to review and track of all this information to ensure that no renewal or opportunity is missed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The conduct of due diligence in the ventures raising money will render crowdfunding prohibitively expensive and thus impractical. Due diligence is too expensive. If investment complexity makes crowdfunding untenable, then the need for due diligence makes it too expensive. Crowds are frequently stupid.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

It might be an earnings boost, where the post-acquisition company continues to operate independently while increasing the value of the parent company. When you find one you like, it seems easy enough: do your due diligence, buy it, and now you “have” that capability in your product portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Chewy, for its part, gained a bulwark against established brick-and-mortar competitors, including those operating in one of retail’s bright spots: pet care services. With asset prices at record levels, careful due diligence is more critical than ever. No operational integration is necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Next, you need to understand how digital M&A turns traditional due diligence on its head. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Let’s start with financing the deal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. Companies usually manage bribery and corruption risk through a mix of internal processes, certification requirements, and basic good practices throughout their operations — including with suppliers and vendors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Indeed, due to increased commercial complexity in global companies as well as the growing impact of business and society issues, the expertise, quality, breadth, power, and compensation of the General Counsel have increased dramatically in recent decades. Compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. Evaluating leadership capital has always been a critical component of due diligence for deal teams.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Chinese companies are relatively new to the M&A game, governments in many target markets are quick to detect a political agenda, Chinese companies sometimes struggle to obtain financing or face unexpected political opposition at home, and many acquiring Chinese firms operate in particularly dynamic — and volatile — global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Four things are required: Do deeper due diligence. Find out how they made it work and double down on the due diligence. Operating out of Germany, New Jersey, and San Jose, California, respectively, the trio is a high-functioning, collaborative team. How do you make virtual teams the rule rather than the exception?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

First, let’s review the theory — a little of it goes a long way. These costs are not operational costs, such as commission fees or transportation costs. Constraints on due diligence limit the information available to negotiators. Difficulties in Negotiating a Transaction.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The challenges of combining and managing the resources and operations of the different organizations and aligning their cultures may actually make the goal of integrated, patient-centered care much harder to achieve. When a request arose for a new service that was not operational within our own system (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

They have strong due diligence skills. The reason is that conducting due diligence will be costly and arduous because small companies often have poor reporting and accounting systems. Getting the operating team into the M&A process early on helps them build good relationships with their counterparts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. One of its critical functions is reframing, which is repeatedly redefining the problem to enable deeper insights.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Do your due diligence. Our team got the reporter out alive, with high marks in a review from the U.S. That was a well-intentioned behavior that might well have put the entire operation in jeopardy, the de-brief emphasized. Not all decisions will involve the profound moral dilemmas faced by Adams and his peers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The company quickly adjusted its operational definition of “loyalty” to explicitly embrace and reward its “digital evangelicals” — customers who had enough of a virtual presence to be influencers. These customers were given perks, privileges and the power to offer certain promotions. From Data to Action An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Instead, Acumen's strategy is to review the literature and consult experts to establish a link between a specific output and impact (for instance, how bed net distribution leads to malaria reduction) and to then count the outputs. The MCC's approach is even more complex as it operates on a 20-year time horizon.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. In the startup world, venture capitalists compile data about how many pitches they’ve listened to, how many they put through due diligence, and how many they invested in. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense for companies operating in the same space to continually compete. Example: MineMe Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Failure was worth every cent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. The best way to identify new partners involves in-person due diligence. This dynamic can stall important change (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Improved understanding of an asset manager's investment approach may, in turn, increase trustees' willingness to review performance less frequently. CEOs should actively court desirable investors. Asset owners should build in-house investment capabilities whenever possible.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If you have assessed the risk of your strategic options in terms of brand risk, operational risk, market risk, and so on, do the same for the current strategy. It’s now common practice to manage risk with heightened awareness, disciplined processes, and due diligence.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. A recent Harvard Business Review article on hiring CEOs for PE-owned companies argued that “urgency outranks empathy.” In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The way to increase seed- and early-stage financing for physical-product start-ups is to reduce individual investors' risk by improving the quality of due diligence and spreading risk across a larger number of investors. Testing in these cases was not previously possible due to the cost of an on-site operator.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Things are never quite the way the due diligence report claimed. Many articles dissect the keys to successful operations and projecting future growth levers in China. Setting up shop in a new country always comes with surprises. Few countries offer as many surprises as China. What it feels like, and what you don't expect.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. Related Video. The Refresher: Net Present Value. Go it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

The management understood that doing three deals a year meant they had to do due diligence on 20 companies and submit five bids. This was followed by the acquisition of Aerospace Dynamics, an operator of high-speed machining centers, for $625 million in 2014, or roughly 2% of PCC’s market capitalization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Do your due diligence. Our team got the reporter out alive, with high marks in a review from the U.S. That was a well-intentioned behavior that might well have put the entire operation in jeopardy, the de-brief emphasized. Not all decisions will involve the profound moral dilemmas faced by Adams and his peers.

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