Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2023

According to Yahoo Finance, there are only four openly gay CEOs atop Fortune 500 companies. Is there a glass ceiling for gay executives? To try to answer those questions, we invited Jim Fielding, an openly gay entertainment-industry executive, to be a guest on The New World of Work.

Execution 11

Execution Open-book Retail Finance 11

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

For example, Quickbooks point of sale integrates POS and accounting into one place making it easier for you to manage your retail company. Is it a brick and motor retail space with a point of sale and inventory needs? Step 1: Take the Time to Identify Your Accounting Needs. What kind of company do you run?

Software 67

Software How To Retail Budgeting 67

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

Business Model 361

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

Press Release 214

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 214

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams.

Retail 8

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

Fashion 124

Fashion Press Release Discount PR 124

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

Press Release 133

Press Release Magazine Entrepreneur Discount 133

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly 8:25 AM Tuesday November 30, 2010 by Joshua Gans | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print This years holiday shopping season improved somewhat over last year with sales likely to top $11 billion.

Retail 13

Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Executive teams need to assess their industries’ and companies’ time horizons for the technology, because they will have a huge amount of strategic and business process planning to do before their companies adopt it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Despite the huge impact executives can have on their organizations, failure rates remain high. So we wondered: If we closely studied the executives who succeed in top jobs once appointed, could we identify distinguishing features that set them apart and defined their success? Prescriptions for what to do continue to fall short.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Among other skills, he wanted to find executives who had the wisdom to know when the organization needed to be fundamentally changed and shaken up — and when the organization needed time to incorporate prior changes. Brad's comment illustrates an important truth about succeeding to the executive level.

Innovation 15

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Few executives appear prepared for the challenges of digital M&A. When we recently interviewed top M&A executives in Europe about their experience, fully three-quarters of them said that digital disruption has had a relatively large impact or even requires a complete overhaul of their M&A strategy.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

Strategic Planning 10

Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957. Apparently, it was big data.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It took computer company Apple only five years to become America’s largest music retailer, and just seven to become the world’s largest. Retailers are also moving in as well: nearly one-third of domestic Starbucks revenues are paid through its own loyalty cards. Competition Finance Innovation'

Banking 9

Banking Retail Finance Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

First, senior management should decide on the business goal for an analytics initiative and the key performance indicators to track that will put them on the right path toward success. Once CoE is created, the pod teams should perform root cause analyses to support the performance management process. Make collaborative decisions.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Metrics Analysis Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Susan Wojcicki (YouTube) asks managers for updates on their numbers around diversity. And many diversity programs fail.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Im sick about it. I doubt it.

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

A few months ago I decided to look into the professional experience of non-executive directors at the major banks listed in Britain. I discovered that only one bank had a board member with some direct experience in technology and in that case it was as a sales executive. Jennifer Maravillas FOR HBR.

Technology 8

Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

” First, senior management should decide on the business goal for an analytics initiative and the key performance indicators to track that will put them on the right path toward success. Once CoE is created, the pod teams should perform root cause analyses to support the performance management process.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Metrics Analysis Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. It can rapidly build demand, which reinforces the relationship with retail grocers. How does one put a check on this kind of unproductive jousting?

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

More organizations will study their top salespeople in 2013 to understand how they formulate their winning account strategies based upon customer politics, evaluator psychology, and the human nature of executive decision makers that are unique to winning every account. Intelligent" Territory Management. Win-Loss Analysis Studies.

Trends 15

Trends Analysis Politics Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. We have replicated these results in other surveys of C-suite executives at large public pension and sovereign wealth funds. But right now that’s not happening. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. Susaans work with senior executives over the last 30 years shows over and again that the people (mostly men) who rise to senior levels in organizations have a preference for operating in the abstract. He did not, from my point of view, have the skills to run the big company that we had produced.

Process 14

Process CEO Insurance Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

It’s time for boards and executives to ask themselves hard questions about how the new mobility could affect their business models. How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? What will our retail footprint be? Retail and consumer business. What Leaders Need to Consider. Health care.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

If you’re a chief executive officer, your job is to execute. But what does it mean, in terms of daily tasks, to be the company’s top “executer?” One pharmacy retail chain CEO who wasn’t particularly good at investor relations simply hired people who were better and entrusted them with that duty.

CEO 8

CEO Class Chief Executive Officer Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. In fact, health care financing is such an alien landscape, Kaplan told me, "When I encountered the costing systems in health care institutions, I feel the way Darwin must have felt when he first came across the Galapagos Islands." Actually, none of that has ever happened.

Kaplan 18

Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

At their training center in Louisville, they bounced ideas and product prototypes off of retail salespeople who came to learn about GE’s products. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations.

Ries 8

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives. Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g.,

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc. As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. ” At most Fortune 1000 firms, executives who’d “walk out the door and come back in” fully recognize their status quo is both inadequate and unsustainable.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8