Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

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

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Establish "an unbending standard of performance" : Since 1965, Buffett has annually compared Berkshire's compounded growth in book value per share to the growth in the S&P 500 (plus dividends). In all but seven of these 45 years, Berkshire beat the S&P. But why compare apples (book value) to oranges (share price and dividends)?

Letter 15

Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. Deere & Company developed a small tractor, the 35-horsepower Krish, built and priced specifically for the India market, competing head on with the Indian market leader, Mahindra & Mahindra.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That shift has created an increasingly commoditized product and service environment. Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance. That’s a major missed opportunity according to Ian Ewart, Head of Products, Services & Marketing at Coutts. “I

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Impulse patronage" looks and feels like impossibility to anyone who isn''t a manager with a cash-flow-positive P&L and the courage to take a chance. They want to see you communicate this in your video, and they want you to offer creative rewards that are fairly priced.". Perhaps it should be.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The front of the bin had it priced at $1.99. I explained it was the only one left and was loose in the bin with a price of $1.99. She called back to the plumbing department and the man who waited on me came to her register and informed her the price was $1.99 Somehow inventory had not been replenished. He was gone a while.

P&L 150

P&L Customer Intimacy Price Retail 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc., Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs. Focusing on one at the expense of the other is no longer a choice.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. product + region + function). It’s often a response to, or a prophylactic against, corporate silos.

Organization 8

Organization P&L Report Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

It consumes 20% less fuel than an equivalent 767; which, given today's increasing fuel prices and airlines' diminishing profit margins, should make it an extremely desirable aircraft. In the creation of any truly new product or product category, it is almost invariably a big advantage to start out as integrated as possible.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 15, 2011

Notwithstanding the company’s recent ’airbrushing’ misstep in the UK, L’Oreal has negotiated through the test-of-time’s mine fields, successfully setting the brand marketing standard for the entire cosmetics industry. Tags: Advertising , Beauty , Branding , LOreal , Marketing , P&G. But to do it well.

Class 122

Class Marketing CEO Advertising 122

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

” Robert P. ” Roy L. There is a difference between knowing a product-industry and growing a successful business. They don’t have a clearly unique product, but instead rally behind ideas that are not fully developed. Production and deliverability are strained already…and it gets worse.

Strategy 60

Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Once, the demise of the Great A&P would have been front-page news from Maine to California. For more than four decades, from 1920 into the 1960s, A&P was the largest retailer in the world. A&P remained so powerful for so long for one reason only: because the two brothers who controlled it, George L. In 1946, the U.S.

P&L 14

P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. These companies are notable victims of a new reality: resources are constrained and input prices are fundamentally rising. for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production."

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

As Ballmer wrote in his memo to Microsoft employees, "We will see our product line holistically, not as a set of islands.". The first is to get various functional silos and P&L centers sharply aligned with the specifics of customer requirements. But changes in organizational structure get you only part way there.

P&L 8

P&L Decentralization COO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

This abstract pulls out some of the key management missteps: forcing experimental new projects into P&L rigor too early; forcing new products to use Windows, even as it hampered their viability; and forcing managers to use "stack ranking," in which employee performance is graded on a curve. WATER IS WET.

P&L 8

P&L McKinsey Comparison Price 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. New product development is such a big piece of building new business, or so we are told. Imagine you’re the guy who was running the Walkman business at Sony a decade ago.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Corn yields per acre fell 19% , food prices rose, and water disappeared — the Mississippi River may soon struggle to support commerce. economy commodity prices have become. In a mini political tipping point, six Republican senators publicly supported an extension to the wind production tax credit in the U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The party has been selling pretty much the same product for more than three decades now, while market conditions have changed. It's like the flailing companies in Ted Levitt's classic HBR article " Marketing Myopia " that err by thinking their job is to sell a product rather than satisfy a customer need. Lafley and Roger L.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products P&L 8