Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot.

Process 15

Process Strategy Benchmarking Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

CEOs get paid handsomely. By endorsing performance-insensitive compensation packages, broadly diversified investors are indeed incentivizing CEOs for good performance. To understand this new explanation for seemingly exorbitant CEO pay, it’s important to understand a recent, fundamental shift in the ownership of U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. Are these extreme statements? Perhaps some may think so, but being authentic to my politically incorrect self, I think not.

Politics 317

Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 317

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. But a company can gauge its performance against benchmark levels and make adjustments as necessary. When Alan Mulally first became CEO of Ford, he did away with the CEO’s chief of staff position. Trim your supervisory layers.

Cost 12

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Benchmark data isn''t sexy stuff, but occasionally the numbers reveal surprising findings. Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals? billion NGO with operations in 97 countries.

Globalization 8

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Traditional ZBB implementations focus almost exclusively on simple SG&A , in part because SG&A benchmark data is far more readily attainable than are relevant data from the core functions of comparable companies. 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

MAY 8, 2017

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. Such investments carry significant equity risk, suggesting that equity-based benchmarks like public market equivalents (PMEs) are appropriate. What PE firms do after they invest.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

MBA finance majors learn early that trying to anticipate equity and commodity markets with such data is like trying to drive a car while only looking in the rear view mirror. Remember also that that most macroeconomic and corporate financial data provide only a snapshot on where things have been.

Benchmarking 13

Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 13

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule.

Blog 384

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” ” Moore answered without hesitation: “He would get us out of memories.”

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. As I learned at the conference, according to Terra Technology's benchmarking study , the error rate for CPG companies on estimated vs. actual sales is shockingly high. But inventory is not a minor issue.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Building scale for your distinctive capabilities must be at the top of the CEO agenda. You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

The first 100 days are usually the honeymoon period for any new CEO to make their mark and get others on board. However, for Airbus CEO Christian Streiff, it was just a brief window before his abrupt departure from the European aircraft company that’s part of the EADS consortium, along with DiamlerChrysler and Aerospatiale-Matra.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

LJ Rittenhouse is president of Rittenhouse Rankings Inc, a CEO strategic and investor relations company that annually conducts a benchmark survey of CEO candor and stock price performance, and author of Buffett's Bites: The Essential Investor's Guide to Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters.

Letter 14

Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO. She knew that to have a role in steering strategy, she had to earn the trust of her CEO and board. “To The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Something done or said due to substance abuse, succumbing to a bribe or fraud when finances are tight, or erupting under pressure and tearing down another human being can all lead to a complete loss of trust credits. He ended up being demoted and losing the trust of his entire team and his boss, the CEO. Yes – 87%.

Ethics 95

Ethics Servant Leader Execution Survey 95

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. Sometimes you sense that something isn’t right at work.

Ethics 8

Ethics How To Morale Information 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Leila Kamal, vice president for design and expertise, not only reports to the CEO but also is a member of the board. Generating new knowledge by conducting research, benchmarking, or bringing in “resident” artists or scientists whose interactions with employees can spark creativity.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Worse, we have conspicuously failed to benchmark progress across these options, on the basis of their real-world impact and performance. Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets. Such experimentation is clearly vital — and typically sparks a proliferation of potential solutions.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy. This point was underscored by Unilever CEO Paul Polman when he courageously told short-term investors who did not support sustainability efforts not to buy his company’s shares. The Moral Frame.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. American VCs are critical.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8