Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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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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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. Get visibility externally. Find kindred spirits.

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Career P&L How To Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

These struggles can lead to serious gaps between the resources allocated to security and the actual support needed to properly protect corporate and customer information. They clearly understand the importance of protecting the safety of people using our products, including users’ personal information.

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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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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some of the more obvious benefits of knowledge management are: Sharing of valuable organizational information throughout organizational hierarchy. 5) Operational Transparency -. Substantive information – is the information relevant, clear, complete, correct, reliable and verifiable? Knowledge retention. [4].

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness. When the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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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.”

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The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In today’s ever increasing complexity and change, you are being called to operate at a new level of consciousness. 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.

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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. It has changed the way we communicate, behave and think. But it has also led to a dramatic decline in our people skills.

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Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 71

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Townes, and Henry L. Statistical and mathematical insights were imported (often from military uses) forming the basis of the field that would subsequently be known as operations management. His book Concept of the Corporation , published in 1946, was a direct response to Alfred P. Operations Organizational culture'

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2015

She called back to the plumbing department and the man who waited on me came to her register and informed her the price was $1.99 We live in a time flush with high efficiency, cost control, and lean operations. Bar coded packaging today drives inventory control, P&L calculations, and all manner of financial management processes.

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P&L Customer Intimacy Price Retail 150

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. The story of how this badge came to be, and the information backing it up, requires some background. But we have solid information on many products’ hot spots now.

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

For example, the French global energy player ENGIE recently tilted its primary dimension from product (such as power, services, and infrastructure) toward region in order to better serve its clients in the territories in which it operates. But such reorgs don’t make silos go away — they just create new ones.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Though CEOs may tolerate that executives keep information from them at times, they expect straightforward answers when they ask straightforward questions. ” Second, CEOs operating in uncertain environments need to have a lot of “what if” discussions with their executives. Insiders tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

They may not be like the big conglomerates of the 1960s — you can see how their portfolio of somewhat related business came about — but, in reality, the various divisions and business units do operate completely independently from one another.

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Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 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. An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Leaders who operate in this mode lose their peers in no time flat. In reading your story, I was reminded of Bill Bridges Four P’s model – what’s our purpose?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. The values that drove why they did what they did, or which informed them of what mattered to them, though, remained the same. 3) Finegold D., Mohrman S. &

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. Palma Cay's first month," he said.

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

When leaders come up short, as they often do, the problem may have less to do with them as individuals than with the top-down structures in which they operate. With 25 billion gigabits of digital information getting created every day, each of us is becoming ignorant faster. Beyond these structural limits are cognitive limits.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.” Bratton and Michael L. This debate is happening because in Halliburton Co.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 369

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In order to allocate funds for innovation initiatives, Atrius Health’s leaders created a new department with its own P&L. The research that informed the creation of the Care in Place model took a physician and two engineers four months to complete. Establish an innovation center. Protect the work.

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