HR Digest

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It can be found throughout various industries, from marketing to law to finance. And, when this imbalance exists, men with little to no experience become managers. And finally, they expect managers to carry out policies designed to keep them happy (Stanford University). What should my manager do next?”

Leadership 52

Leadership Trends Restructuring Environment 52

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager. Decent career path to management or senior tech. If you work hard enough and own your own dealership you can rake it in without doing much anymore.

Career 191

Career Real Estate Engineering Education 191

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. The HR Digest: What challenges and obstacles do you see Human Resources Management facing in the future?

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. After all, IBM came back from the dead in the 1990s.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

No industry is failing faster than retail. The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. And so Harry’s has been growing 35% year-on-year between 2014 to 2016, three times faster than the industry average , commanding 9% of all online razor sales. Prasatporn Nilkumhaeng/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Brand 9

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. Startups, on the other hand, aren’t debt financed, because they’re too risky and unproven, and have no assets—not so appealing to lenders. Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. Done well, it can improve a company’s sustainability in addition to its performance. SASB uses the U.S.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In the end, whatever your industry and whatever your enterprise’s size, scaling up your distinctive capabilities is one of the most difficult and yet essential things you can do. We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some have decades of experience in their industry. 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. Their ideas for products, services and management practices may not survive market tests.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 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. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We earned a 13% return — not bad by industry standards — but we failed to change the company much. Like so many managers today, they responded to shareholder activism defensively. After some reflection, and many conversations with managers, employees, and shareholders about our campaign, we wanted to offer our insight.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Besides the short-term costs of such a move, history shows us that Greece has never managed to benefit from currency devaluations. For a country that isn’t export-oriented, and whose major industry, tourism, relies on stability, having its own currency is not much of a solution to economic woes. In a country slipping from 1.8%

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As a consequence, public firms often have access to many different credit facilities and financing options that private companies do not enjoy. Because IPOs involve the complete restructuring of the company’s ownership, there are many details that need to be ironed out.

IPO 63

IPO Real Estate Cost Company 63

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. We’ve all had to adapt. Photo by Lorenzo Errico.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The computer, software, telecoms, music, broadcast, publishing, photography, retail, and consumer electronics industries certainly believe so. According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. I don’t.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“Not only are profits rising,” write the authors of the McKinsey report, “but in some industries, the leading firms are winning bigger than ever before.” And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them. “It’s happening a bit across the board.”

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. Not surprisingly, the best generate profit margins 30%–50% higher than industry peers and grow faster. But a lot can get lost in the averages.

ROE 10

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It was just the industry and firm norm. It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. Redistribute work more evenly.

Team 9

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 9