Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. While the banks compete among themselves, they face existential threats from amalgam of entities, not necessarily possessing bank licenses.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Paid on a type of “commission” basis, but you earn a percentage of the fee a client pays the company (most clients are banks, at least at my company). New technology all the time. Allows you to focus on different aspects of organizations – restructuring, selection, retention, leadership development, etc.

Career 192

Career Real Estate Engineering Education 192

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

My recent paper , coauthored with Naoshi Ikeda and Sho Watanabe of Tokyo Institute of Technology, empirically tests this quiet life hypothesis with Japanese data. However, when the managers are monitored by institutional investors and independent directors, they tend to make difficult decisions more aggressively.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. Oka had found feedback from US regulators very helpful in his efforts to revive Union Bank and saw an opportunity to do something similar at Nikon.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In the face of relentless technological change, disruptive forces in industry after industry, global competition, and so on, planning seems like pointless wishful thinking. Consider the Dutch financial services firm ING Bank. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Like banks, airlines, and retailers, health care providers will need to offer an easy, digital front-end experience to their customers. Without better data, we will know little about the true effectiveness of virtual health care technologies. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Strategy Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Or you’re an auto-industry executive and you’re excited by a new technology that you could easily build into your latest model—but contracts with suppliers make such an innovation an impossibility this year, and maybe even next year. Deutsche Bank accused Dresdner of inflexibility. The agreement was called off.

Innovation 8

Innovation Retail Banking Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Experiment with frontier technologies. Digital reinvention only works if companies master the right digital technology architecture.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager. By March 2016, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi had invested in some 55 startups, generating products from power banks to air purifiers. P&G should follow suit.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

In a new follow-up study , we explored how to short-circuit the debilitating effects on a team of a leader describing negative events, such as a potential restructuring or poor sales. As an example, one pair of articles looked at shortages at a local food bank. Jim Whitehurst.

Team 8

Team Restructuring Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of incumbents are being compelled to adopt these technologies to stay competitive, even as cost and productivity pressures become acute.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. And thanks to the way bankruptcy laws were restructured under George W Bush, you can't get out of the college loan even if you become bankrupt. I say this for two main reasons. This is deeply broken.

Education 12

Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One consultant commented, for example, that “within the investment-banking community, it is all about platform and brand.”. He offered an example: “I recently recruited a VP Sales and Marketing from a well-known consumer technology company to be the president and COO of a small but fast-growing smart-grid consumer technology-products company.

Reputation 13

Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

This segregation isn’t only about hard skills like coding, argues Bloom, pointing to a paper by Christina Håkanson of the Swedish National Bank and her colleagues. The competition story revolves around digital technology. “Companies are restructuring from an industry focus to an occupational focus,” he told me.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

It dents your self-esteem; it’s tough on your bank account; and if you’re not smart about your next steps, it can derail your career. ” Lees suggests saying something like: “My former company went through an extensive restructuring. Losing your job is hard. How do you maintain your self-confidence?

How To 8

How To Budgeting Self-aware NGO 8