Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And once they know what they want, how can they convince hiring managers that their skills will translate — especially if they’re not quite sure they will? He’s leveraged his maritime skills as a networking asset, becoming president of the sailing club at his business school. Do you have a strong work ethic?’”

Career 12

Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. CB: We’re in the middle of a “skills shift.”

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. Train everyone on the team in conflict management skills. #3 You know the US market well, as do your people, because it is your only market, even though you are pretty sure your product could be applied internationally. Maybe it is finally time to work on that golf game.

Price 92

Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 92

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. His processes – which were based on the assumption that employees derive personal value from a job well done – required more skilled workers and a team-oriented environment. Consider leaving a comment!

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013.

Restructuring 11

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Our combined skill sets (academic expertise on leasing, the choice of modularity and refurbishing, and practical expertise on asset management and product recovery) allowed us to identify three approaches to breaking through. Philips wanted to increase this business to serve more cost-constrained segments of the market.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

There are just two ways to increase ROIC: improve operating profit (by increasing revenues or cutting costs) or invest capital more wisely. This, of course, raises an obvious question: Why are so few CEOs skilled at capital allocation? And at a time when growth opportunities are limited, it is arguably the only way to create value.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role. Bring on the quants.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. They realize they have a lot of skills that companies want and a lot of options.

Quinn 10

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. Operating in a Global Marketplace.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions. Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. So he taught his team planning and M&A skills.

Company 8

Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. We decided we wouldn’t hire people for some other skills, such as systems integration and change management, and would use partners for that, instead.”

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2013

The entrepreneur takes risks but does not see himself as a risktaker, because he operates under the useful delusion that what he''s attempting is not risky. Hirschman and the power of failure" by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, June 24, 2013. Hire an independent (read: objective) professional to take a look at your intended market.

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Entrepreneur Creativity Marketing Operations 97

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Many organizations aim to narrow the “digital divide”: the socioeconomic gap between people with Internet access and the skills to make use of it and people who lack those resources. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue. This approach consigns many ICT4D projects and tech startups alike to failure.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.”

Management 8

Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 8

Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . Steven and Erika hire for attitude and train for skill. Much of their business relies on what they call “relationship marketing.”

Training 71

Training Mission Statement Open-book Positioning 71

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. There is tons of evidence, much of it compiled by the formulator of the efficient market hypothesis, Eugene Fama , that value investing works.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

” Specific technical skills are getting increasingly easy to measure, so employers focus instead on assessing whether a candidate understands the context in which the business is operating, will be highly motivated on the job, and will get along with the rest of the team.

Software 8

Software Engineering Incentives CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? out of a possible 990 in February 2013. We manage and innovate with speed and precision, and that will only increase with our English skills. What do you do?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

healthcare system have taken at least one well-worn market-based path: strive for economies of scale. Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Gordon Travel Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Don’t have sufficient management skills or resources to do something well.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. At several financial services firms , for example, business units whose employees reported speaking up more had significantly better financial and operational results than others.”

Company 8

Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Because if the repair shop had bothered to train and trust the mechanic on more than just technical skills—e.g., No wonder we have skills shortages! Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 But it’s never the nincompoop, it’s always the Nincompoopery.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76