Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives. In turn, the comfort and amenities keep them coming back.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While systemic complexity won’t be eliminated in the short term, health plans can approach service differently to make navigating the health care system feel simpler and easier. Amazon and other digital retailers have done just that. Shift the complexity burden off consumers.

System 10

System Planning Health Care Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Lobbying for policy reform isn’t much of an answer, because incumbents generally have the benefit of long-term relationships with government agencies built up over many years.

Licensing 10

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

I've followed the greening of the retail giant fairly closely for years, so I wasn't expecting a lot of new information from Bedore, Walmart's Senior Director of Business Strategy and Sustainability. When addressing the company's aspirational goal of using 100% renewable energy, Bedore said two noteworthy things.

ROI 14

ROI IRR Power Payback Period 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After working with numerous marketers, we developed the Intelligent Brand Framework to provide a structure for thinking about marketing investments across creative and operational disciplines, using a combination of data-driven and human-centric approaches. The goal is to help marketers find balance.

Marketing 9

Marketing Reis Brand Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We still believe the executives at Tejon Ranch made some mistakes, as did we, but our biggest collective mistake was thinking in terms of threats rather than opportunities. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Our first goal was to understand how widely held the belief is that meaningful work is of monetary value. In terms of sheer quantity of work hours, organizations will see more work time put in by employees who find greater meaning in that work. increase in annual operating profits. The Dollars (and Sense) of Meaningful Work.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. I don’t try to mislead others or deliberately cause injury to someone for my gain, so I simply assumed everyone else would operate that way in business. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.,

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The second is that, without information on the impact of their work on company goals, frontline workers can't properly contribute to improving them. Because of the way they are organized, most companies are naturally good at optimizing performance within functions — marketing, sales, and operations, for instance.

Process 14

Process Competitive Advantage Operations Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

These deficiencies are as common in health care and education as they are in manufacturing and retail. and then devising metrics for monitoring progress over the short and long terms. Ideally, goals should be visible to everyone and should be translated into companywide, group, and individual targets that are tracked frequently.

Management 8

Management Benchmarking Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. The investment industry is changing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

UC Davis teamed up with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to assess the economic costs and benefits of three Congolese refugee camps in Rwanda operated by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNCHR). When this happens, they usually receive significantly less than the local retail price.

Policies 10

Policies Long-term Short-term Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

” So, in short, put away your devices while you’re on vacation, until you take them out again multiple times a day so that you can work, and apparently vacation activities will need to be scheduled around work check-ins! This may be an acceptable short-term situation, but it’s not sustainable long term.

Short-term 8

Short-term Creativity Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

But it’s poised to transform all sectors, from retail, telecommunications, and agriculture to health, trucking, and the penal system. Yet the terms “data science” and “data scientist” aren’t always easily understood, and are used to describe a wide range of data-related work. Insight Center.

Ethics 8

Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

This approach to employment allows leaders to predict and control what will come out of the job, at least in the short term. We have found that most organizations’ entry, or “onboarding,” processes share a common goal: to inculcate the organizational culture and teach new employees the job requirements.

Power 8

Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The relentless rise of online retailers has led to deep soul searching among brick-and-mortar retailers to find ways to compete. The traditional methods of competing through convenience, assortment, and pricing are largely ineffective against online retailers who outperform brick-and-mortar retailers in these dimensions.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Most often, they’re financial numbers or sales goals. What many of them think is a plan include some accounting figures or sales goals. Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. Business bases much of what it does on statistics. by Hank Moore.

Budgeting 81

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 81

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Product-service movement at retail levels. Values in terms of savings: Time and motion savings. Values in terms of efficiencies: Meantime between new product introductions. by Hank Moore.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. While that may be true in terms of financial luxury, this perception can also be misleading. Beyond the organizational returns, Masala is thinking long term. “We

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

While all good leaders must keep the company’s internal operations moving forward, the very best ones must also be looking outside the company towards the customers, clients, financiers, volunteers and the organization’s entire affected constituencies. Base-Level Sellers (door-to-door, telephone, clerks and checkers, retail sales).

Business Development 51

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. Super-efficient retailers such as Walmart and Costco have been able to bring their CCC down to the single digits. Maybe that’s true. That’s impressive. But at Amazon last year, the CCC was negative 30.6

Retail 21

Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 21

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Many retailers and proximity marketers have deployed beacons inside stores that have resulted in up to a 15% lift in retail foot traffic and a 73% increase in the likelihood of purchase among shoppers. This can help increase short-term sales as well as build long-term brand loyalty.

Short-term 8

Short-term Brand Long-term Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

If you haven’t heard of OTT , short for “over the top,” you will soon. The core disruptive concept is that the “pipe” created by the cable MSOs (multiple system operators) no longer provides the sole gateway to consumers’ television screens. to send text messages.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

But organizations themselves can rarely, if ever, pursue the long-term approach to talent development described in the latest reportage on Seal Team 6. Rather than creating a long development arc for talent, organizations educate people in short and often unconnected bursts. Strategies don't stay fresh for long.

Team 13

Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

In another example, a large US-based specialty retail chain wanted to determine the chief drivers of store energy efficiency in order to reduce usage and greenhouse emissions. For example, the retailer was able to migrate to automatic HVAC systems for better insulation and adjust store timings to optimize energy usage.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Energy ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. As Karim Tabbouche, the chief strategy officer of VIVA Bahrain, told me: “Our planning process had become myopic and short term in nature, with our objectives becoming tactical and linear in nature. To be sure, the present is vitally important.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams. Operations in a Connected World. Smoothly operating supply chains are vital for stable profits. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Price Airlines Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Finally, if the immediacy of the "look out the window" method of gauging climate change didn't work for some, at least one major climate skeptic changed his tune based on longer-term data. One of my favorite new partnerships is the new Sustainable Apparel Coalition , an impressive mix of powerful retailers, apparel manufacturers, and NGOs.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

The outcomes will only work in the long term if both sides combine their expertise into a rich body of shared experience and understanding. You should understand the solution''s cultural impact, its technological and operational feasibility, and its viability in your business. Hopefully, you''ve already done some of this work up front.

Govindarajan 8

Govindarajan Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

” Manufacturers and retailers can jointly learn what shelf sets, aisle layouts, signage, and promotions are capturing attention and changing shoppers’ behavior in the moment. In both cases, the assignment was clear, the duration short but intense. “And what we learned was sobering.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. Investors Focused on Climate, Sustainability, and Short-Termism. I do believe companies will expand their horizons, looking more at systems, not just their operations and value chains.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8