LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In terms of rectification, you have to look at the issue in the context of whether the problem is a short-term blip or the beginning of a long-term shift to your business or industry. When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. At best, they are managers.

Short-term 161

Short-term Long-term Budgeting Hammer 161

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

This can cover situations such as growing a business (which requires ‘growth capital’ for expansion or development); financing operational changes such as restructuring to make the business more profitable; financing acquisitions of other companies; or delisting a public company in order to give it private status.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Finance Hedge Restructuring 66

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

That’s not good news for the job market when workers cannot vouch for the long-term business survival of the establishments they work for. Institute new money management procedures. With this statistic at the back of your mind, one essential step to take is to restructure your company’s money management procedures.

Finance 81

Finance Long-term Banking Restructuring 81

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

In my experience, the most effective long-term engagement strategies build a foundation on which front-line managers feel empowered to create an environment that promotes employee enrichment. In turn, it was the manager’s responsibility to help clear a path and coach their employees into a new position. Connect with them.

Strategy 276

Strategy Development Restructuring Learning-by-Doing 276

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

When I was a young product manager back in the ’70s, the only people I could talk to about brands were my colleagues in the marketing department and the advertising agency. Now my accountant, my lawyer, my portfolio manager and even my neighbour talk to me about brands.

Magazine 100

Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. Becoming a strategic leader is an acquired capacity that can, in our view, be mastered by managers at all levels.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Streamlined Processes Fintech innovations have transformed the financial sector, fostering inclusivity, enhancing operational efficiency, and facilitating personalized customer experiences.

Finance 107

Finance Technology BPM Company 107

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998); and an outstanding, senior executive from the private sector, Charles Rossotti , was appointed for a five-year term to drive the changes.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

What’s going on there, it’s a term that’s been used for a really long time and you sort of opened the book with a discussion of that. How are some of the best companies restructuring themselves to make use of this interesting finding? Why is that so important? ORLY: Yes, absolutely. It is counterintuitive.

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

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. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course).

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital.

ROE 12

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

But it will be important for managers to know when to use each of these types of deals. A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers. The term remix describes the mash-ups of music, images, and words that appear all over the web.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Among these: Downsizing firms lose valuable knowledge when employees exit; remaining employees struggle to manage increased workloads, leaving little time to learn new skills; and remaining employees lose trust in management, resulting in less engagement and loyalty.

Company 8

Company Short-term Altman Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. As I said earlier, measuring a company’s short-term orientation is incredibly tricky.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

In the early 1980s, Ralph Stayer sent a long memo and a $200 check to every employee of his family business. His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Profits were up 150%.

Management 8

Management Long-term System Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

But the more important part of the story, the lesson that applies to all kinds of companies in all sorts of fields, is that every one of these star performers faced at least one “near-death experience” during the course of its long-term success. It was a great idea for a conference, yet it amounted to a hill of beans.

Company 8

Company Long-term Conference Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Managers have a tendency to belittle the people we see as “resistant to change” – the employees who don’t change fast enough. Yet for all its innovation, Amazon’s approach to managing its money has changed little in 20 years. It is to ask of change in any one area of the business: At what pace?

Short-term 8

Short-term Drucker Resistance Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Whether this will help J&J in the long run, no one knows.

Brand 9

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." As Dell''s public statements have pronounced, these changes will reduce near-term profitability, raise operating and capital expenditures and involve a lot of risk.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. In my experience, these beliefs have led managers and boards to take actions that have had unintended, destructive consequences.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Council of Institutional Investors (CII), representing managers of $25 trillion assets, recently demanded limiting any company’s dual-class share structure to seven years. Aggressive-growth and family-controlled dual-class companies display higher long-term shareholder returns.

Class 9

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

These dynamics make it hard for teams to recognize or to be fully cognizant of new disruptive challenges, while also stifling the creative innovation that is necessary to proactively confront such challenges. We are rewarding and punishing (or at least withholding rewards for) the wrong things in our organization.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Acquisitions always get a lot of senior management attention and, for those who want it, there is no shortage of outside advice, including a lot in the management literature. But this is usually when they have a major restructuring, which is to say when they're in trouble of some kind. And it's a shame. GE-NBC/Universal.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things. Our survival depended upon it.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The debt becomes much more difficult to manage and cynicism corrodes the functioning of the society. Experience suggests that where workers are empowered, given more voice to shape the terms of their employment and the way in which they work, productivity very often increases. Without middle class growth, institutions lose legitimacy.

Class 8

Class Outsourcing Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Each one apparently accompanied by a breathless press release describing how it represents genuine innovation, not to mention fabulous design. But this as the face of modern day innovation?". Restructure, reorganize, slash and burn. Cut corners, "manage" your earnings, sub-sub-subcontract. For how long?

Press Release 15

Press Release Short-term Globalization Long-term 15

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. Innovations make it easier to find high-performing people quickly and more cheaply than traditional practices. For instance, at one U.S.

Skills 14

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The senior commercial and scientific directors formed a “circle of leaders” comprised of 23 senior managers who had no meaningful history of collaboration on strategic initiatives. Such viewpoints could, in turn, generate more fresh, innovative thinking — and from that, new corporate vistas might easily emerge.

Leadership 9

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Their ideas for products, services and management practices may not survive market tests. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Google’s restructuring as Alphabet is one sign of its entry into several new vertical markets, including driverless cars, smart homes, smart cities, and health. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8