Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. Here are five: Commit from the Top.

P&L 11

P&L Agility Fashion Media 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

These lower-income shoppers think like savvy CFOs and are willing to pay more for categories that provide a usage benefit as well as a variety of economic benefits for their own "household P&L.". Lower income shoppers may see OTC family planning as a way to control family costs in an uncertain economic environment.

Retail 15

Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

You just changed jobs from a highly structured, corporate company to a much more casual environment. You have to learn what works best in the new environment. In a casual business environment, relationships matter and help to bridge the lack of process,” Willyerd says. You may be finding that adjustment difficult.

Process 8

Process P&L Case Study Software 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market. Surprisingly, big inroads in the physician office-management market are being made by non-traditional players, such as Best Buy’s Geek Squad.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

1) Create a Learning Environment -. Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources.

Execution 15

Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations. What specific skills do you want to cultivate? You and Your Team Series. Learning.

P&L 8

P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

In his late twenties, “James” was hired in a strategy and business development role inside a multibillion-dollar marketing and communications business. As CFO, he gained insight into a broad set of functions and proved his ability to thrive in a new, uncertain environment.

CEO 8

CEO CFO P&L Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

Cespedes and Benson P. In fact it's not mainly about cost management at all — though that's certainly important in these market conditions. And it's a cutthroat business environment out there." Like HBR's traditional case studies, HBR.org's Management Puzzles are based on academic research into business problems.

P&L 12

P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Just as important, setting aggressive profit targets for managers with P&L responsibilities — who otherwise might not be interested in pricing — provides an extra incentive for them to focus on pricing as a means to reach their goals. So what do you think?

Price 14

Price Strategy P&L Incentives 14