Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A small but trendy razor club with a hip logo, Harry’s, attracts more Instagram followers and product subscriptions through its website than a fully stocked Gillette aisle in a supermarket ever could. Of these companies, 29 were incubated from the ground up by Xiaomi, and four were already unicorns worth over $1 billion.

Brand 9

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

The corporate version of these decisions can be fixed up without much trouble. The solution is to show some humility and to consider restructuring things so that your actions have some checks and balances. Follow him on Twitter (@mauriceewing). Putting yourself at the center of too many big decisions may increase risks.

Strategy 14

Strategy Metrics Restructuring Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Here are my top suspects: China and other countries following the Chinese strategy. He introduced a strategic planning process directed from the center.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In the end, whatever your industry and whatever your enterprise’s size, scaling up your distinctive capabilities is one of the most difficult and yet essential things you can do. We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Up until the 1980s, Japan had boasted of its “100-million population, all middle-class society.” There were three major reasons for the profound change in Japan’s economic and social makeup: During the “lost two decades” starting in 1990 , Japan’s economy either shrank, or inched up by just 1% or 2%.

Consensus 8

Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. They think big.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

As a provider of cloud-based finance and HR applications designed to help companies change and grow, our customers rightly expect us to lead by example. We’ve found that you can’t create a culture just through values, new processes, or an organizational restructure.

Technology 8

Technology Company Tools Information 8