Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Companies are both operators and investors. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

I took legal action against my employer for granting 10 paid weeks off to any new parent through birth, adoption, or surrogacy — except a man who had become a father the old-fashioned way. California has such a program , financed through the state’s disability insurance program. New Jersey has a similar program.

Policies 8

Policies COO PR Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Value: “ Across all of our businesses, our success is based on a simple formula,” Icahn (or someone in his employ) wrote in the most recent annual report of Icahn Enterprises. “[W]e Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month. Then Andreessen quit the board. In 2012 it was $1.9

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Thanks again for stopping by Dan.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

“Ideally you should operate at some level of overcapacity so that when you lose an employee, you don’t need to panic,” she says. Julie* told René she was leaving the company for her dream job in the fashion industry. “This could be a chance for someone to expand and grow” into the role.

Case Study 8

Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. This team created a highly impressive model to predict whether a car would be a total or partial loss after the first accident report. A large fashion retailer ran into this issue.

Technology 8

Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 12, 2015

Having a tight network of trusted peers is as vital (and often trumps) your relationship with your boss and your direct reports. I learned this from one of my direct reports in my sales exec role. His peers in the finance department was not approving contracts for a subset of our customers. Take a Field Trip.

Fashion 180

Fashion Learning-by-Doing Reputation Finance 180

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The company’s website reported that Kickstarter has now funded over 50,000 projects , with pledges coming from over 5,000,000 individual backers. Securities and Exchange Commission took a major step toward allowing crowdfunded equity financing. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. Another report, the U.S.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. When you get into a bar fight, you revert to what comes naturally — the old-fashioned tactics." They get you all fired up, but you fall back into your old ways pretty soon.

Succession 15

Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. Each is a highly evolved digital player.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10