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. It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. Institute new money management procedures. How can you get your customers back ?

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Finance Long-term Banking Restructuring 81

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Renault agreed to infuse $5.4

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

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. A vast number of famous brand names need brand surgery.

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Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

In this in-depth exploration, we will delve into tips and strategies to manage your small business finances during a crisis and emerge more resilient than ever. Understanding these vulnerabilities is the first step towards effective crisis management. If necessary, consider taking out a short-term loan to tide over the crisis.

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Finance Crisis Management Crisis Management 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. That got everyone’s attention!

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. FinTech companies are putting a new twist on financial concepts.

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Finance Technology BPM Company 106

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. I believe a far-better path is to restructure the operations in question way before they threaten the company’s survival.

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Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2021

In an ideal world, every business would be successful enough to bring in a steady cashflow and keep themselves operating at a sustainable level. This is where a business has to restructure their company debt, contacting their debtors to arrange manageable payment instalments or liquidate assets to pay off outstanding debts.

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CVA Restructuring Finance Short-term 123

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. Getting the measurement right is central to providing convincing evidence on the debate over short-termism.

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EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

While change is often in the best long-term interest of a company, it can wreak havoc on an organization’s people in the near term. In most cases, the things companies do to get ahead of change, such as more frequent communication or manager training, are only minimally effective.

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Media Management CEO Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We wrote about our adventure nearly a year ago in The Atlantic, but as we thought more about our interaction with Tejon Ranch’s managers, we realized there were valuable lessons that we wanted to share with the corporate leaders who are likely to confront the risk of an activist campaign. The team was polite and respectful.

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CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

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.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

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.

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CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

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. The only questions the circle should avoid are what to do about current operational problems.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. They wind up maintaining course without appropriately considering emerging risks, debating alternative scenarios, or exploring new courses of action.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. More importantly, managers need to monitor the tool innovation roadmap.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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. Draft a provocative vision and values The operative word here being, “ provocative.” Connect with them.

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Strategy Development Restructuring Learning-by-Doing 276

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

While on the surface revenues remained strong, its rapport with customers and physicians was rapidly eroding, and its reputation was being bludgeoned by lawsuits and a national backlash against health maintenance organizations and managed care (which Aetna had championed). Employees were naturally wary of any potential threat to that bargain.

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

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. Under Rossotti's guidance, the IRS reorganized from a geographic structure to four new customer-oriented operating divisions.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The debt becomes much more difficult to manage and cynicism corrodes the functioning of the society. That means strengthening regulation where some businesses are putting competitive pressure on others by skimping on safety, by denying workers basic benefits, or by operating with dangerous degrees of leverage.

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Class Outsourcing Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus. A detailed roadmap should outline how it will become autonomous in terms of revenues and/or access to central services.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.

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Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. For example , U.S.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They are finding creative — and in many cases disruptive — ways to tackle some of society's toughest problems and create long-term value for their companies as well. Their ideas for products, services and management practices may not survive market tests. Some have decades of experience in their industry.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The changes in healthcare – consolidation, restructuring, regulation, spending pressures – that are necessitating a transformation at Philips Healthcare are a subset of a series of powerful forces in the business world that have catapulted marketing from an often-isolated support function to a critical capability for driving above-average growth.

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? As a hard-working employee, you will be measured by and rewarded for the long hours you put in at the office and the gym. layoffs or restructurings) or make someone happier in their job (even if it makes their lives, on a whole, more pleasant).

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

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. P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. Why is P&G making this move, now?

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Others may simply see no alternative to trying to keep the brand going at any cost, even if that means aggressive discounting, cheap licensing, or other tactics that erode long-term brand value. ’” Purpose might have informed the management of two failed brands – Blockbuster and Radio Shack — differently.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Hiring managers will see what you have done — and can do for them. He’s building a bridge between challenges he’s met in the past and challenges the hiring manager is currently facing: “Build start-ups’ commercial infrastructures from the ground up—driving long-term growth and profitability.

Brand 8

Brand Press Release Marketing B2B 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. Many present leaders still view technological savvy as important for staff people and operations, but not for them. Know how to make and manage investments in new technology. Sharing leadership.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success. While that may be true in terms of financial luxury, this perception can also be misleading. It [becomes] impossible for them to pull it off.”.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Two of the civil engineers that Hari had been managing—Preeti Das and Tuli Khanna—had stepped up. But he wasn’t sure that his young team could keep the business thriving if he took his focus off day-to-day operations. You don’t need him anymore.” “And you’re all in favor of rehiring Hari?

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Case Study Real Estate Travel Consultative 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 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Jon Feingersh/Getty Images.

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Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

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?

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Short-term Drucker Resistance Restructuring 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop was born in drummer Rob Bourdon’s living room in 1999 when the band was packing CDs and stickers into boxes to send to their very first fans, long before any of their music had hit the radio waves. So we parted ways with our outside management agency in late 2014 and we brought all core business operations in-house.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

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.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8