Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

A normal acquisition process seeks to ensure something basic: a strategic rationale for a deal, supported by a thoughtful selection process, with known risks identified by a short, intense due diligence. What this requires is doing some integration due diligence as part of the M&A process.

Due Diligence 9

Due Diligence Company Stakeholder Analysis Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. After all, those that find themselves embroiled in bribery scandals, for example, face a host of consequences, including business disruption, steep financial and legal costs, and harm to their brand and reputation.

Company 8

Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Indeed, even organizations where top management keeps their eyes glued to KPI-driven dashboards have trouble agreeing on what their Top Ten Most Important Customer/Client 80/20 analytics should be. Should management refine and dig deeper into existing 80/20 KPIs? is the challenge top management needs to both ask and rise to.

Due Diligence 11

Due Diligence KPI Loyalty Information Technology 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When performed properly by a CRA committed to running FCRA-compliant reports, background checks can be a key part of your due diligence as an employer and help you avoid negligent hiring lawsuits. It can affect employee morale, customer relations, brand reputation and growth.

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Due Diligence Reputation Compliance Tools 111

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If you have assessed the risk of your strategic options in terms of brand risk, operational risk, market risk, and so on, do the same for the current strategy. It’s now common practice to manage risk with heightened awareness, disciplined processes, and due diligence.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

In other words we operate on the principle that equity means treating everyone in the same way. Having been one who didn’t have one for a period of several years because senior management didn’t believe in performance evaluations (but didn’t offer anything to replace it), I know this to be true. A conversation.

Performance Review 40

Performance Review Review PR Blanchard 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. Luxury hotel brand Melia is joining Accor and Rotana to open the country’s first international five-star hotel, the Gran Melia Ghoo.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Here are six ways to change that.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

healthcare organizations like JHM tend to enter into types of partnerships that don’t require them to operate in a substantially new way such as with other large domestic healthcare institutions, or with local hospitals. Critically, for every region we have a dedicated manager capable of championing a project there. Embrace risk.

Health Care 8

Health Care Agility Due Diligence Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Things are never quite the way the due diligence report claimed. So, success doesn't always come to the brands with the best plans, but to the ones able to understand and respond to surprises. Many articles dissect the keys to successful operations and projecting future growth levers in China. Enter with humility.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence Brand Long-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

the management consultancy. If the auguries of "strategic due diligence" suggest a favorable outcome and bankers are willing to lend lots to help finance the deal, the PE masters of the universe acquire the property and put in place a "performance improvement plan" to make their new asset more profitable.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12