Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. CTI’s 11-market study (of Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the U.S.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Emotional Intelligence Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activists launched 159 campaigns in 2015 focused on shareholder value maximization, nearly double the 88 that were launched the year before. Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage?

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

“That partner simply couldn’t remember that it was my leadership, my work — aided of course by the team and that one guy (we’ll call him Jim) — and that I’d been instrumental in hiring Jim and promoting him while I was leading it,” she says. He did such a great job with that cost reduction project.’”

Management 8

Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Too many companies try to expand wherever rapid revenue opportunities lead them, diversifying into new products, entering new markets, expanding through mergers and acquisitions, or investing in organic growth (which often means stealing market share by releasing products or services similar to those of your competitors).

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

You are Amazing Even if Today You Are Off Course. I love to discover the source of a person’s passions and am fascinated by our diverse natures. I think that stress and the dizzying circumstances of our lives can push us off course. Even so, we get farther off course with each mismatched turn. Are you off course?

How To 69

How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 69

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are challenging work flows in the education sector. The music and print media – in fact, all content producers – have had to transform as new platforms increasingly give the small the powers of marketing and distribution that were once reserved for the very large.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Diversity Hotels Drucker 8

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

You are Amazing Even if Today You Are Off Course. I love to discover the source of a person’s passions and am fascinated by our diverse natures. I think that stress and the dizzying circumstances of our lives can push us off course. Even so, we get farther off course with each mismatched turn. Are you off course?

How To 40

How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

By 2015, according to my own firm''s projections , not only will 75 percent of the world''s population have access to the internet. The wisest course, most find, is to make investments in both directions, looking to achieve that magic balance that maximizes margins. So will some six billion devices.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While having the right education is an essential asset in today’s cutthroat job market, it can become difficult to obtain a position without experience using various applications and technologies that enhance and amplify one’s resume. Appsbar: www.appsbar.com. Robotic Process Automation works effectively in an agile development environment.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Is it any wonder that organizations stray off course? Perhaps no course was ever charted. Overt marketing hype led to an unwatchful marketplace… which always wakes up to the realities of business eventually. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. That’s how Business Trees in the forest burn.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When the students in the MBA course I teach on the gig economy ask me for the best thing they can do to prepare for their future careers, I tell them: “Stop looking for a job.” In 2008, the rate of job creation fell even further—below 1%—and has remained at that historically low level through 2015.

Katz 8

Katz Disaggregation McKinsey Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Not Good at All Google Finally Discloses Its Diversity Record, and It’s Not Good PBS NewsHour Google released its global workforce numbers, revealing that 70% of its employees are men, a number that increases to 83% and 79% if you look only at tech jobs and leadership roles. But some, like Vivek Wadhwa , "don’t buy its excuses."

Short-term 8

Short-term Mass Marketing Long-term Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Empathy is the foundation of inclusive design in that when we understand human motivations on a universal scale, we design for a broader, more diverse audience.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Fast forward to 2015, and you see an island transformed. Many of these investors view Singapore as a launching pad to regional emerging markets like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Donald Trump and many of his advisers appear hostile to action on climate change and to progress on many social issues that companies have already embraced, such as diversity and LGBT rights. CEOs signed a letter to the president-elect that urged him to stay the course on global climate action and building the clean economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8