Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Most advice for positioning yourself for executive positions mirrors Martin’s sentiments: If you want to land in the executive chair, the first thing you need to do is get executive experience. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Map out a path to the executive position you want.

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Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. By learning the area's customs and traditions, you are able to relate with locals better and establish a positive reputation. Industry Principle (Product & Business Development).

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Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. The basic facts are these: Most industries in the U.S. In this view, companies in seemingly every industry are struggling to fend off digital competitors, and in traded sectors they also face competition from overseas.

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Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. After all, IBM came back from the dead in the 1990s. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The investment industry is changing. These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. This is not just case-by-case evidence.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work. In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals.

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Our employees consistently tell us that doing meaningful work, and being part of an organization that makes a positive impact, is very important to them. Robinson add success to the global supply chain industry? It is a key competitive advantage.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Companies can fill this need and gain competitive advantage by transforming their stakeholders from bystanders to owners and make sustainability, including as it pertains to social good, part of their purpose. As one executive told me, “unless you shift the whole industry, you’re only going to solve pockets of the problem.”

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Or as Igor Linkov, a coauthor, posits: "Can we design our countermeasures in a way that no matter what the threat is we still manage to do our best to recover fast?" For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match.

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

under the leadership of current CEO Wendell Weeks articulated a strategy 15 years ago of moving beyond core markets in glassware to create a future “world of displays” that positioned it for the coming ubiquity of smart phones, tablets, and televisions. Similarly, Corning Inc.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Company leaders have quoted and lauded Carr whenever they''ve needed to justify their hesitation to create strong, progressive IT positions. And they hesitate to create strong, progressive IT positions all the time. They had suspected all along that IT really doesn''t matter. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Accountability.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with. If I only had a nickel for each time a CEO has told me “We have the best talent in the industry.&#

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 366

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Companies that correctly match their strategy-making processes to the competitive circumstances of their industry, business function, or geographic markets perform better than those that don't. But, as I discussed my last post , far too many lack a systematic way to do so. But it didn't need to.

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Strategy Organization Committee Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Second, with the public declarations by many companies to help with the goals , there is likely to be competitive pressure. Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. of the time.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In many cases, it is more closely linked to getting the green light than even financing and business fundamentals. Other champions hope to use the deal to improve their company’s competitive position within an industry. He wanted to help create a competitive advantage (like a lion ). Advancement.

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Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The challenge is convincing all those talented individuals seeking finance and consulting positions to take the leap into starting a new venture. Smart companies will use this to create competitive advantage for themselves and for the startups they invest in. Experience at top tech companies predicts success as a founder.

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Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. Upskilling need not be a path out of the company or industry, but a means of advancing within it.

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? They understand the business context, industry, market, internal processes, customers, employees, and suppliers. Alternatively, human resources might be the right place.

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Company Committee Ethics Project 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Throughout my professional career, I have navigated multiple industry segments from professional services to consumer goods and served a decade+ stint in the insurance sector. It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. Visit the “trenches!”

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Team Insurance Human Resources Strategy 362

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital. Only a small minority thought low-cost operations would be an advantage in three years’ time. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You are able to position yourself as a true thought leader in your industry, separating yourself from competitors. With a team of talented marketers, amazing creatives, and SEO experts, they create content that stands out in an industry overloaded with a content publication.

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