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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 31, 2015
While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2015
A major challenge for all retailers is managing the closures in a way that maximizes revenues and profits. Our studies of a wide range of retailers have found that companies often have the most difficulty managing death. Over time, retailers have identified and adopted many innovative ideas to manage these complex tasks.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These values can be estimated credibly and cost-effectively, and we set about applying them to the Brazilian beef sector. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues).
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 23, 2015
“These ideas are more than 30 years old,” managers complain. The basic principles are: If you want to earn above the cost of capital (if you want to create value), you must get a higher return on your efforts than the average competitor. “Isn’t there anything more recent?” Insight Center.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2017
While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Critics imply that managing for shareholder value is all about maximizing the short-term stock price. Companies that manage for shareholder value, the thinking goes, do whatever it takes to engineer an ever-higher market price. The objective is to build value and then let the price reflect that value.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 21, 2016
These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget.
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