HR Digest

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It can be found throughout various industries, from marketing to law to finance. And, when this imbalance exists, men with little to no experience become managers. And finally, they expect managers to carry out policies designed to keep them happy (Stanford University). What should my manager do next?”

Leadership 52

Leadership Trends Restructuring Environment 52

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. The HR Digest: What challenges and obstacles do you see Human Resources Management facing in the future?

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager. Decent career path to management or senior tech. If you work hard enough and own your own dealership you can rake it in without doing much anymore.

Career 192

Career Real Estate Engineering Education 192

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. A manager that can provide this to their employees will develop a loyal and strong team. I have observed many firms attempt to create loyalty and.

Press Release 100

Press Release Motivation Discount PR 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

One of senior management's favorite pastimes is moving around the boxes — and the people inside them. Most managers do reorganize with good intentions — to grow revenues, reduce costs, improve customer focus, etc. So what do you do if your organization has been shuffled, turned, twisted, and restructured?

Market Segmentation 14

Market Segmentation Restructuring Marketing 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. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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 12

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

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. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules. When we began our research, we expected to hear a lot about organizational design.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I’ve been a consultant for over 20 years now, focused on helping international clients in areas of business and market strategy, positioning and market launches. On with the interview… Mike Myatt: For our readers not familiar with your background, could you give us a brief Bio?

Open-book 272

Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

How to find good quality employees, how to hang onto them, and how to develop them into better employees — these are the questions managers across the world constantly wrestle with. I've heard them in Europe at Davos this year, and from multinationals across the globe. So development and advancement are hard to come by.

Organization 14

Organization Restructuring Talent Management Skills 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes). The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

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 12

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. But the past is merely a prologue. But are they profitable?

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We wrote about our adventure nearly a year ago in The Atlantic, but as we thought more about our interaction with Tejon Ranch’s managers, we realized there were valuable lessons that we wanted to share with the corporate leaders who are likely to confront the risk of an activist campaign. The team was polite and respectful.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

” But it’s not only the success of your company that’s at stake, says Susan Ashford, professor of management and organization at Michigan’s Ross School of Business. “That’s the language of marketing,” says Butman. “If they don’t, they stagnate and disappear.”

Project 8

Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As a consequence, public firms often have access to many different credit facilities and financing options that private companies do not enjoy. Because IPOs involve the complete restructuring of the company’s ownership, there are many details that need to be ironed out.

IPO 62

IPO Real Estate Cost Company 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Council of Institutional Investors (CII), representing managers of $25 trillion assets, recently demanded limiting any company’s dual-class share structure to seven years. Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. Between the Lexus and the Prius, Toyota’s the one dominant market leader that consistently respects design and business fundamentals even as it innovates.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2017

Currently, it looks like the UK will be excluded from the Single Market once they leave the European Union. Some companies, which trade throughout Europe and the UK, will have to restructure their companies to suit new laws. Being out of the Single Market doesn’t mean that the UK wouldn’t be able to trade with Europe.

Restructuring 50

Restructuring Course Retail Banking 50