N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Operating Officer A Chief Operating Officer (COO) holds a distinctive and crucial role in the corporate ecosystem. Equipped with a holistic view of the organization’s objectives and a deep understanding of its operations, a COO is often considered the key driver of operational excellence.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Efficiency Operations 313

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. Compensation structure.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. Aligning risk to strategy, by identifying strategic risks and embedding risk management principles into business unit planning cycles, enabled the company to identify and document 80% of the risks that have an impact on performance.

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Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The government’s pro-growth policies and abundant spending only increased corporate interest and multinational expansion plans. There are two key strategies that multinational executives operating in Brazil should consider. times their earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). times EBITDA.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

On the surface, John looked like the perfect up-and-coming executive to lead BFC’s Asia expansion plans. It became clear that John had succeeded in the past by doing what he knew and operating rather conservatively within his domain. He went to an Ivy League B-school. His track record was flawless.

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Agility Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing EBITDA 8