Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. And more fundamentally, does marketing actually work? Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Avery explains that it is also referred to by its acronym, MROI, or as return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The wars between departments doubled the time required to bring a new product to market because teams were often given conflicting directions. The business unit teams focused on talent, customer segmentation, and marketing. Anyone else who has a stake in the meeting outcome should be informed. These are just symptoms, however.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 11

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. I remain impressed with the ongoing success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks.

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Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Establish "an unbending standard of performance" : Since 1965, Buffett has annually compared Berkshire's compounded growth in book value per share to the growth in the S&P 500 (plus dividends). In all but seven of these 45 years, Berkshire beat the S&P. Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses.

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Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

In an office with minimal formal policies and procedures, informal influence can take on outsized importance. At the new office, a preference for informal discussions is causing endless email strings or constant interruptions, and you’d like to suggest implementing some kind of meeting software. Any suggestions or tips for me?”.

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Process P&L Case Study Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The high level of trust affords USAA access to copious customer data that it uses to inform personalized cross-selling and upselling. In the past, marketers have struggled to deliver the higher response rates they need from existing customers — a smaller group than potential new customers. banking and insurance businesses.

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Insurance P&L Telecommunications CRM 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly. Reallocate advertising and marketing dollars to customer experience. Traditional branding is an old paradigm.

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Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 71

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Is substantive information easily accessible?

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Through informational interviews and background research (such as scanning leaders’ LinkedIn profiles), try to get a sense of their educational background. Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations.

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P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

One class discussion that gets the light-bulbs flashing is a case study analysis of a brilliant functional expert, Harris (not his real name), who gets sent to an elite business school’s general management program with the promise of a promotion into a P&L role upon his return. Figure out your market value.

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Career P&L How To Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Based on the demands of budget dollars, an experienced, informed board member should be able to ensure priorities are identified to address issues related to digital transformation. “But every business leader has to speak the language of business: P&L.” But there’s room for growth.

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CIO Committee Technology P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The story of how this badge came to be, and the information backing it up, requires some background. The corporate members include Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, P&G, J&J, Kellogg’s, L’Oreal, and Unilever. But we have solid information on many products’ hot spots now.

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Right now, the market price of carbon is very low, so Microsoft is charging a small amount per ton. Pricing carbon on your own, without a real market in place, is hard, which is why there are so few examples of companies doing it. Even so, they will collect north of $10 million, which is enough to buy offsets.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A leader wearing the hat of teacher focuses on building competencies and thinking capabilities – such as how to read a P&L statement or presentation skills. Every part contains information about the whole. the best result comes when everyone in a group (team, market, etc.) employees’ beliefs and values.

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P&L Strategic Planning Game Theory Mission Statement 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered. Directness.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Who has P&L authority? Citibank Asia, which has a strong customer loyalty position in most of its markets, decided to change its operating model to double down on customer relationships to counter locally based competitors. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day. It includes accountabilities.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. The next question was where to establish the software center.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. If someone had a marketing grader idea, chances are I would say “yes” to it. It empowered my team to move fast and get things done.

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P&L Strategy Press Release Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. In fact, we barely have a marketing budget at the corporate level. Fernando assumed that was how the information had traveled. I'll put together a plan to get this hotel on track.".

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. Bratton and Michael L. John Fund, Inc. ,

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Training Class Efficiency Price 8