Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Each product-service is budgeted. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Instill discipline.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Top pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies hire healthcare executives who can successfully and consistently create or identify products that will be the next revenue generator for the firm. They can recruit top scientific and operational talent to achieve the desired corporate goals. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Being sharp means being succinct. Practice pitches and product or service descriptions. Rehearse your pitch.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. In sharp contrast to Hurricane Katrina, the collaboration between military organizations, federal authorities, and state and local agencies during Sandy led to purposeful and decisive support to victims and infrastructure. Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. While relatively rare, there have been a few cases of the Russian government directly interfering in Western businesses’ affairs.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Get the Structure Right: When virtual teams come together from a range of functions —say, finance, operations, HR and IT to work on a cost-management initiative—problems tend to arise from a lack of accountability. There is no Plan B,” says Micah Sharp, GM of Red Giant, “It’s us.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple. Shiller and his allies posit that this excess volatility is the product of investor error, herd behavior, feedback loops and the like. (My Apple Disruptive innovation Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. What to do. What not to do. What to do.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

The previous night, Luisa had met with Maria Alva, Superado's finance vice president. Preliminary group results for 2008 had revealed sharp falls both in the number of transactions per store per day and in the average value of each. I think we can help them if we cut down on the product range. And she didn't yet have an answer.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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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.

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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. Some argue that in our neo-capitalist society, based as it is on information and finance, there is need for a smaller but more productive labor force.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Imagine a product with a 100 percent failure rate. But we consume information just like any other product; we take flight on the reliability of data. Peer review is valuable, but it is not a guarantor of reliable knowledge. Not one observational finding could be replicated. Or an airline in which the majority of flights crashed.

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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.

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