Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. The consumer packaged goods (CPG) landscape is in the midst of a significant shake-up. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

P&L 12

P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Manage costs — or add value?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? I remain impressed with the ongoing success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks. With the exception of niche, specialty, and some consumer technology markets, I see less and less of this in big business. Some companies brand exceedingly well.

Brand 260

Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

P&L 13

P&L How To Finance Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. She wrote the HBS cases on the P&G/Gillette merger, and when she teaches those cases, frequently invites P&G executives to her class.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. To get this broad exposure, managers were given a variety of functional roles, eventually assuming leadership for a small business unit.

Management 13

Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more."

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Technology cannot take the place of human communication… only may add to it. The person who commits to a path of professional development never stops achieving… and profitably impacts his-her business relationships. Language is food for the mind. Browse a dictionary, and you create new ideas.

P&L 56

P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

His firm grew explosively during the 90s and right up through 2008, constructing offices and high-end homes for the technological elite. They may not necessarily be happy with their firms' leadership or trajectories, but they are trying hard to hold up and appreciate what is, for themselves. What does happiness mean?

P&L 13

P&L Construction Survey Stress 13

Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. For a technology person to succeed, the coding skills are only a beginning. I was hooked on the book as soone as I saw your nine L's in the table of contents. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME.

Download 28

Download Licensing Software Open-book 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

If you've done it too soon and tried to modularize parts of an unsolved puzzle across suppliers, then each time one of those unanticipated problems or interdependencies arises, you have to cross corporate boundaries to make the necessary changes — changes which could dramatically impact the P&L of a supplier.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). China, China, and China. Watch this space.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8