Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Customers don’t expect to get bottom-of-the-barrel prices everywhere they go, but they do expect to be treated with respect. Recently I ordered some shoes from Zappos that ended up not fitting.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

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. Nikon could then follow up by asking what would persuade the investor to repurchase. I assumed you had some further cost reduction up your sleeve.”

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

When resources are allocated from the bottom up instead of from the top down, they get out of sync with what the senior team is trying to accomplish. As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is. Today most if not all industries are impacted by digitization—mobile technology, big data, and the like.

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Fast forward to 2016, and almost all of RedBalloon’s brand advertising was invested in traditional media outlets like radio, print, billboards, and pop-up retail stores. The company’s cost of new customer acquisition had ballooned from 5 cents to $50. Albert is now generating $15 of return for every $1 of marketing investment.

Retail 8

Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. E-mail us at healtheditors@hbr.org , and sign up to receive updates here. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Densmor, Terranola’s CFO, saw those words on Twitter about one minute after Hughes had uttered them. spoke up. “We As CFO, A.J. was painfully aware of the consequences of the stock slide, which now amounted to 20% from the peak, with no bottom in sight. ExSolv claimed to have a technology for extracting oil from sand.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8