Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas. Four months later the CEO fired him. But when it’s a team of six?

Leadership 8

Leadership Leadership Pipeline Loyalty CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

In the fall of 2007, I met Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho. Sridhar had a small network management tools business that basically functioned as a highly profitable cash cow. Fast-forward to 2013: Zoho is a $200 million dollar a year company. The initial cash needs to come from revenues, not financing. No venture capital.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. Along with fixing the sales culture, the bank will have to address these critical management issues to prevent the next scandal.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

One of the key functions of a board of directors is to oversee the CEO to ensure that shareholders are getting the most out of their investment. Such rules rest on the premise that if we can just structure the board properly, management misconduct can largely be prevented. But is this a realistic expectation for directors?

Company 8

Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Strive Masiyiwa was interviewing him to be CEO of the Nigeria telecoms venture lead by Econet Group, which Strive founded and chairs. ’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

As an entrepreneur, angel investor, VC, philanthropist, and CEO with 40 years' experience, I cannot agree. will not be legalized until 2013). In the recent HBR article "The Crowdfunding Road to Hell," Daniel Isenberg argues persuasively that crowdfunding — specifically equity crowdfunding — cannot work.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). These managers also bring a valuable perspective to the table.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, maintains that Excel is still the one Microsoft product that stands above the rest — and 750 million knowledge workers worldwide support that claim every day. Excel developed a mind of its own in 2013 with this feature. hours a day. hours a day. Flash Fill (30 minutes to learn).

Bottom-up 15

Bottom-up Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When the company had 60 or 70 people working at its Palo Alto headquarters, founder and then CEO David Kelley (now Chairman) did a masterful job of orchestrating the “Monday morning,” a weekly 9:00 am gathering. BuildDirect was founded in 1999 by CEO Jeff Booth with his good friend Rob Banks. Sales doubled in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Likewise, Nebia — a start-up water-efficient showerhead maker in San Francisco — recently scored investment money from Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s family foundation. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. They add that strong support comes not only from the CEO and IT executives but also from all other C-level officers and the board of directors.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world. percent to 7.5

Company 8

Company Stress Participative Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Not surprisingly, the particular aspects of managing human capital that are most important vary by sector. For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Every manager, male or female, saw the difference very fast, without any preaching on my part. Most companies and managers think they speak in gender-neutral, “meritocratic” terms equally comprehensible and motivating to everyone. They were carefully chosen, of course. So far, so good. He’d thought it was nice!

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). The company’s board docked the pay of CEO Jamie Dimon by more than half, to $11.5 And what happened to the compensation of the typical JP Morgan managing director?

Banking 9

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924. It all seemed so big and complex and out of control.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

You need to have senior management that really understands what value-based health care (VBHC) is all about. Back in 2012, Erasmus’s CEO, Professor Hans Buller, was a huge proponent of VBHC and led the development of the organization’s 5-year VBHC strategy with one of us (Dr. Develop a Project Management Plan for the Pilot.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Write a letter to the company’s board demanding that it do something different from what it’s doing (buy back shares, break up, sell out to another company, throw out the CEO). billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Wait a while. In 2012 it was $1.9

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation. By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles. Part of this time was spent, wisely, in perfecting the technologies (battery switch, network management, in-car intelligence) that would make the system run.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO. And that really is on the backs of marketing.” That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. We saw the blood drain from the CEO’s cheeks as he realized that the double-size ED actually had fewer treatment areas than the old one did.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Kate had had a taste of entrepreneurial life — she was on the management team of ArtusLabs, the North Carolina-based software company that was bought by PerkinElmer in 2011 — and knew how “exciting it was to work at a start-up.” Managing yourself Career planning Professional transitions'

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8