Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

Zero Based Budgeting 9

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” These low-cost and reliable sources of funds are from taxpayer-insured deposits and the Federal Reserve’s discount window. Sometimes David can triumph over Goliath.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Yet no one asks: which of the information purchased at high cost from the outside army of research vendors and consultants was ignored, missed, discounted, filtered or simply not used correctly? What Did Peter Drucker Really Say? Peter Drucker is often quoted as coming up with the managerial bromide, “What gets measured gets managed.”

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2015

Roughly half report that the two aspects of employee performance most negatively affected by personal finances are stress and the ability to focus on work (50% and 47%, respectively). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Dan Macklin is a co-founder and vice president at SoFi. About SoFi.

Education 50

Education Survey Absenteeism Participative 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

of those in these markets said that currency volatility posed the greatest material risk to their pricing strategy during 2014 and 2015. For example, the Russian ruble depreciated from being 37 rubles to the dollar in September 2014, to being close to 70 rubles to the dollar in January 2015. That can have disastrous consequences.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. ” (A bill was introduced in 2015 to raise the cap and liberalize other rules around H-1Bs, but died in Congress.) But in April, just after U.S. born engineers.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9