Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple. As I write this, on Thursday morning, the loss for the week is nearing 10%.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis. Will the ability to keep it simple (think of the fact that Apple has only about 60 products still!) be a mantra for competitive durability in the world of the future?

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. There is no Plan B,” says Micah Sharp, GM of Red Giant, “It’s us.”. But putting together a great team is tricky.

Team 8

Team Sharpe Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people.

Blog 419

Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

She'd been doing it since she was a little girl, tagging along with her father as he grew his business from one small market in central Lonburg into one of Spain's largest grocery retailers, with more than 1,000 locations across the country. The previous night, Luisa had met with Maria Alva, Superado's finance vice president.

Case Study 11

Case Study Price Policies Retail 11

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. I had to learn that lesson, and almost blew it many years ago. link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Bert.

Blog 414

Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. “By serving as GE’s and other equipment makers’ supply partner, the whole world is now my scope.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Imagine a product with a 100 percent failure rate.

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Review Industry Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

What caused the average of the expected number of children to plummet was the sharp decline in the portion of people who planned to have any children, through birth or adoption. A massive overhaul could start with labor market compensation practices. We know, of course, that not everyone wants to be a parent, but the majority still do.

Policies 10

Policies Health Care Education Career 10

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. The rest of the services are for paying members only.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54