Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion. They hadn’t weighted discount hotels into either pricing or room availability. Top management’s belief in its brand value and positioning excluded discounters from their competitive landscape.

Hotels 10

Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

But it wasn’t too long ago that the discount retailer’s future didn’t glow so bright. Unlike Coca-Cola’s traditional products that have a formulaic recipe, its juice products are reliant on Mother Nature for ingredients, which can vary sharply in quality from year-to-year.

Diversity 8

Diversity Retail Discount Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Leading academic institutions are looking at this problem, and some — including Harvard Business School — are expanding programs that take place along the continuum of a career, rather than just in preparation for one. There’s only one CEO of each of our careers—ourselves. level is a pretty dated concept.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

There is a tendency to discount this work because it is viewed, by some, as being less important and the people who produce it, as little more than overhead. After all, if the stage is not solid and the systems that make it work, faulty, the quality of the end product is often less than ideal.

Organization 44

Organization Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 44

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Home-based businesses are a great way for busy people to take more control of their careers , but starting your own business can be intimidating. Being a consultant for an established company is a great way for individuals to build career skills while maintaining control over their success.

Tips 95

Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. People will always take better products, but when they can’t use or don’t want to pay for the premium features, it creates opportunities for simpler, cheaper solutions.

Innovation 12

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 12

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2019

Diversify Product Range. It is also worth considering your product range and seeing if there are any gaps in the market that you can fill. It is impossible to grow a company without the right people powering the operation. Product demonstration videos. Attract & Retain Top Talent. Attract & Retain Top Talent.

Industry 52

Industry Customer Loyalty How To Loyalty 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

The near-certain results are processes, operations, and teams that are increasingly out-of-date. Delay too long and the competitor may introduce that new product line first; a great candidate may go elsewhere; and an investor may withdraw its offer. Some even re-interpret the data to reinforce their long-held mental models.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Information Analysis Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It’s natural to feel slightly paranoid, says John Lees, UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code. “You have a golden moment in your job search where you’re operating at peak confidence and energy. Don’t: Discount talking to your former HR department about the firing.

How To 8

How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In other words, when youve been chatting with Bill every night at the local pub for twenty years, you probably know whether his note is a good bet or not (and further, just how much to discount it to earn a sustainable and fair return, that neither fleeces Bill, nor robs you). No selling of products or services. No ad hominem attacks.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Distinctions must be drawn into three consulting categories (and percentages of their occurrence in the marketplace): Vendors sell products which were produced by others. Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 17 percent).

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2012

If you think I’m going to list of a bunch of product bargains or discount sales, think again. The fact that giant companies don’t operate this way opens the door for the smaller competitor. I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Creativity.

Bureaucracy 245

Bureaucracy Constraint Creativity Discount 245

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50