Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly. Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency. A culture of shared values.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

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

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, super discounters such as Aldi, Lidl, and Amazon are further squeezing already thin food retail margins for large retailers. To curb this food waste, grocery chains such as Asda (Wal-Mart) and Morrisons are experimenting with selling “wonky” vegetables at discount prices.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Compare that to Whole Foods, whose latest 10-K filing makes far fewer references to price, and cites low prices not only as a clear risk factor, but also one which contributed to its recent declines in operating income and net income. A 2015 study by Consumer Reports showed price differentials for organic foods ranging from -13% to +303%.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Internal operational issues including execution, budgets, and deadlines are paramount in a company’s deliberation, but what other players will do is hardly ever in focus. That is, until a crisis forced them to wake up. This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. .”

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

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. The Future of Operations. Product overstocks result in discounted prices, which are usually about half to two-thirds of the gross margin.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Apparently, chasing the often elusive customer came at a cost that many boards and shareholders had somehow overlooked (or had discreetly discounted). All kinds of companies had failed at operational flexibility. Also, operators are not required to walk back and forth between the moving line and the parts shelves, saving precious time.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 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. It’s also a massive operational challenge because companies are not set up to make very frequent pricing changes, whereas currencies can move hugely overnight.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

As of 2015, the initiative had grown to 70,000 sales agents serving 165,000 Indian villages, and HUL had equipped them with smartphone apps to help them manage inventory and other aspects of their business. By 2015, it had grown to 35 million subscribers and was adding 25,000 a day. The cost is less than 2 cents per impression.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Cost Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

household participates in 29 different loyalty programs, according to the 2015 Colloquy Loyalty Census. Such platforms would add a transaction layer between consumers and program operators and merchants, likely generating a small per-transaction cost, which could grow over time, much like OTA fees. The average U.S.

Loyalty 12

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. MD Anderson Cancer Center lost $266 million on operations in FY 2016 and another $170 million in the first months of FY 2017. The regular Medicare and commercial business.

System 8

System Insurance Health Care Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

” (A bill was introduced in 2015 to raise the cap and liberalize other rules around H-1Bs, but died in Congress.) ” Hanson cautions, however, that their results do not discount the possibility that the arrival of foreign-born engineers is driving down earnings for U.S.-born exceed [Americans’] in comparable jobs.”

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. That is some group of people.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11