Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 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. And many diversity programs fail. I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc., “It has always required people to do the work.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The goal was to get feedback and strengthen the thinking to maximize the potential impact on growth. As another example, the CMO directly challenged her team to identify disruptions that would deliver on the department’s and firm’s goals — to bring a more demand-centric perspective to key business challenges.

CFO 8

CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Suzanne Ackerman-Berman at Pick n' Pay in South Africa is leading an innovation lab to help small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs become reliable suppliers to the retail industry. And if these social intrapreneurs are really good, they have a shot at changing the success metrics not only for their company but for their industry as a whole.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. SCF’s focus on relationships is mirrored in its approach to finance.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There is reason to worry that the reward system in our field, particularly in the publication process, is misaligned with the goals of good science. Citation metrics are widely used in faculty evaluations and routinely come up in tenure reviews. The questions of good for what and good for whom are worth revisiting.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

But comfortable reliance on this “precious” relationship has left us in a situation where the customers of many other sectors (such as retail) are often treated better from an experiential standpoint than medicine’s patients. The goal must be a global patient engagement strategy.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

That operating cash flow is much higher than net income at a company that has been investing huge amounts of money as it strives for global retail domination isn’t a big surprise, although the sheer size of the difference, and the sharp upward trajectory of the cash flow line, is still staggering. Finance Internet Retail'

Retail 21

Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 21