Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Some of them provide free or highly subsidized care to as many as half or two-thirds of all their patients — and still earn a good enough return to attract private investors, even though Indian prices for most medical procedures are 1%–10% of U.S. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. Have a return policy that is easy to understand and that puts the interests of the customer first.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Seth Goldman , the co-founder and CEO of Coca-Cola-acquired Honest Tea, thinks a policy of sharing rooms during business travel helps preserve the entrepreneurial mindset that infused the founding of his company. Companies Need to Have Across-the-Board Consistent and Transparent Policies. Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset.

Hotels 9

Hotels Conference Policies Travel 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. In a recent article , Sheridan described how he answered customers'' most common questions about fiberglass pools regarding prices, problems, and competitors. Collaboration Marketing Operations'

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Market Segmentation Human Resources 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2020

Considering the hassles that are involved while optimizing strategies for your Human Resource Management, it becomes a necessary tool. It is also easy to operate, affordable and helps alleviate payroll errors and reduce a considerable amount of hours spent making all kinds of calculations.

Tools 98

Tools Management Software Compliance 98

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Leaders of corporate strategic development need to analyze all of these considerations and be prepared for disruption to ripple through many functions — not just product development and manufacturing, but also finance, tax, legal, human resources, and IT. Are there operations you would shed? Threat analysis.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. Cyber security involves legal issues, human resources practices and policies, operational configurations, and technical expertise.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. public policies do little to incentivize firms to take a longer-term view of their workforce.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. Operations Organizational culture'

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

For example, if linked feedback loops helped to improve retention by even one percentage point, the savings on a subscriber base of 12 million ( Hulu’s current base ) with a typical monthly subscription price of $7.99, would generate an extra $11 million in annual revenue. Why don’t more companies do this?

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. We were ready to give Ma the keys to Yahoo’s operations in China.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Human resources management. In budgeting for and pricing consulting services, budget for consulting at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10 percent of gross sales.

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

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. In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8