Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Executive teams need to assess their industries’ and companies’ time horizons for the technology, because they will have a huge amount of strategic and business process planning to do before their companies adopt it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. Those declines reflect changes in strategies and the basic business model of investment banks, post-crisis.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage. Mine your backyard.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts. In particular some 80% of their business resources are fluid. What could you do together?

Christensen 16

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs today who practice digital bricolage can construct amazing companies and organizations from existing pieces, many of which offer capabilities once available only to large businesses. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. By parsing ROE into the DuPont Equation (very rapidly to become a business school mainstay), he provided the basis for organizations divided into functions with their own objectives.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms.

IPO 10

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 10