Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. We all trust you, but there isn’t a whole lot of trust between the team members.”

Case Study 11

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Usually, if you search, there are opportunities in your current job and at your current level to display your ability to drive change, even if you are in a support function like finance or human resources. Are you willing to push the organization out of its comfort zone and withstand the criticism of those tied to the status quo?

Innovation 15

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams. While executives excel at setting a firm’s strategy, it usually takes teams made up of people on the front line from all of the divisions affected by proposed changes to figure out how to implement them at pace. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. Designers will become even more valued members of product development and planning teams in every field. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. Designers will become even more valued members of product development and planning teams in every field. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9