Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For workplace apps, these are the managers that author and create documents and projects, and who invite coworkers to participate. Focus on attracting content creators to a new video platform, or sellers to a new marketplace, or the project managers inside a company to a new workplace app. The other side of the network will follow.

Marketing 95

Marketing Assets Recruitment Operations 95

15Five

MARCH 2, 2017

In 2012, a survey by CareerBuilder found that 66% of U.S. When you go to events and meet people, you are not acquiring assets. You can glue a horn onto a horse and call it a unicorn, or you can plan wisely and build a solid foundation for success that you can ride all the way to the bank. Click To Tweet. Step 1: Talent Acquisition.

Software 56

Software B2B Retention Benchmarking 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Even before the official opening of London 2012, a mix-up with the flag for the North Korean women's football team had organizers scrambling to resolve a diplomatic spat.

Risk Management 16

Risk Management Manager Insurance Government 16

Walk Me

MAY 22, 2023

One classic 2012 article from BCG , “Your strategy needs a strategy,” shows how. ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology) provide the tools to ensure their IT investments deliver value, manage risk effectively, and align with business goals.

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning Digital Transformation Implementation Organizational Development 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. The Challenge of Investing in Digital Assets. Insight Center.

Balance Sheet 14

Balance Sheet Manager Assets Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP.

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Real Estate Banking Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. Date: January 20, 2012 20:41. Date: January 23, 2012 14:18. Date: January 23, 2012 14:42. Date: January 23, 2012 17:52. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position. He’s a real asset to us. Sincerely, Sameer.

Engineering 15

Engineering Operations Education Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Our decades strangely resemble each other – and have big implications for how individuals and companies may want to rethink a whole host of issues, from career management and pensions to mobility and leadership criteria. Vitality assets: Health, relationships, love, regenerative friendships, balance.

Assets 15

Assets Education Diversity Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

When a corporate scandal breaks – like the recent one at Wells Fargo or earlier ones at Lehman, Enron, or Qwest – the question is always raised: what was the board of directors doing while the managers in these companies were involved in such unprofessional behavior? companies during the period 1998-2012.

Compensation 14

Compensation Assets Government Manager 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. During the past two decades it has transformed into a provider of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power management solutions.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Revenue Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

northeast in October 2012, ranks as the second-costliest hurricane in American history, causing an estimated $68 billion in damages. They can help us manage rainwater and wastewater. These services, which are not currently valued in the marketplace, protect both people and commercial and residential assets.

Assets 13

Assets Operations Benefits Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

The other paper says founder-named firms are 8% less valuable than their counterparts, and founder-named-and-managed firms are 21% less valuable. Return on assets indicates how efficient management is at using assets to generate earnings. million European firms (for over 6 million firm-years of data, from 2002 to 2012).

Assets 14

Assets Banking Marketing Accounts 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. Monetizing Digital Assets. Thus, in 2012, Luminar was born.

Insurance 14

Insurance Assets Media Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

That puts vast new arrays of assets in play, from crowds to drones, sensors to shoppers. If teams can leverage those assets, hard and soft, digital and real-world, mass them quickly or marshal them with precision accuracy, teams can gain advantage as never before. The Invisible Children, Inc. Emergent, yes. That's by design.

Media 15

Media Assets Marketing Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Penney's disastrous 4th quarter 2012 loss of $2.51 The key shareholder currently driving Penney's decisions, Bill Ackman , is a savvy activist investor who knows how to agitate for quick capital market hits, like spin-offs of non-core assets, splitting up of companies, and forced mergers. Better inventory management will produce 6?/share.

Sales 16

Sales Sales Assets Operations 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

On February 16, 2012, Barclays of U.K. NPCI has one major asset: The 60+ large banks in India connected to its ATM Network. With the ease and convenience of transfer and instant nature of payments, IMPS is now being used for merchant payments, bill payments, cash-on-delivery payments and as a corporate cash management tool. (A

Banking 18

Banking B2B Accounts Transportation 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As I learned during the 2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour my organization held earlier this year, Hispanics are a high-touch community and this level of interaction goes a long way toward earning trust and loyalty. Hispanics as viable assets to cultivating economic growth. Obama and Romney have yet to consistently represent U.S.

Education 16

Education Revenue Government Diversity 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

Assets 12

Assets Operations Insurance Telecommunications 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. Tight convergence on a best practice may not be necessary, then, in this realm of management. McNulty et al.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Benchmarking Assets Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. They begin with different values, invest in different assets, and choose different leaders. Even if you use a ready-made system, you need to have the internal talent to use it wisely.

Digital Transformation 13

Digital Transformation Assets Real Estate Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5

Software 14

Software B2B Marketing Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

I spoke over the phone with MIT's Andrew McAfee, a regular contributor and principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management. If either the data asset itself or the algorithm on top of it seems to be cutting edge or proprietary, I wouldn't go shout it from the rooftops.

Scaling 18

Scaling Assets Hospitality Implementation 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Even when peace has returned, post-conflict nationalization has been seen in many countries, with business losing billions in operational assets. Move forward to 2012, and those days are long gone. What is wrong with prospering along with a community empowered by greater skills in budgeting, saving, and money management?

Banking 14

Banking Assets Government Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

When Avon Products CEO Sheri McCoy took the helm in April 2012, she acknowledged that resolving a bribery crisis in China would be a slow process, but she had no idea how slow — it’s proving to take longer and cost more, she told analysts, while also mounting multiple initiatives. Change management Leadership'

Assets 12

Assets Change Management Software Media 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

HP is #10 on the 2012 list, and IBM is number 19. HP holding onto its PC division because it will help them manage supplier negotiations suggests that they are trying to preserve a cost position, rather than innovate on value. IBM and HP are two amazing companies with long and meaningful histories. Cultivating the Ability to Adapt.

Operations 20

Operations Revenue Strategic Planning Marketing 20

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Asset owners and investors thus have clear information about the strong incentive to adapt to this emerging risk. If incumbent property owners do not make investments in self-protection, they will suffer a huge asset loss as they will not be able to resell their (submerged, damaged or threatened) properties. How can I be so optimistic?

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Assets Insurance Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era. Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees.

Scaling 14

Scaling Engineering Assets Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Apple’s stated intention was to carry out this $130 billion distribution of corporate cash to Apple shareholders between August 2012 and December 2015. Since August 2012, Apple has been on a buyback binge, expending a total of $53 billion on stock repurchases through the third quarter of 2014, the last figures it has disclosed.

Banking 12

Banking Marketing Assets Compensation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." I thought about this while listening Tuesday to David Swensen, the legendary manager of Yale University's endowment, arguing that acting as a fiduciary for other people's money and maximizing profits are incompatible activities. "A

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

Assets 12

Assets Risk Management Government Recruitment 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

Software 14

Software Assets Marketing Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

Staffing 14

Staffing Compensation Assets Employee Engagement 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Assets 15

Assets Operations Revenue Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

Nonprofits have an inherent asset in recruiting against their for-profit competitors: purpose. To do so, enterprises need to have a strong culture, excellent managers, and continued plans for growth. Leverage your mission. Focus on culture and growth. Many nonprofits are able to attract talent, but struggle to develop and retain it.

Nonprofit 14

Nonprofit Recruitment Scaling Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

There''s a question all top managers should ask: How can I make my sales force, which is one of the biggest and most important investments my company makes, perform more effectively?". billion spent on all media advertising in 2012 and more than 20 times the estimated $39.5 billion spent on Internet advertising in 2012.

Sales 9

Sales Sales Telecommunications Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Looking Forward to 2012 and beyond: New business models coming. I've written about this kind of heresy before , but the few examples out there are generally B-to-B (Waste Management, Xerox). I look forward to your suggestions.

Energy 17

Energy Real Estate Government Marketing 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. million in 2012 — because of his "Whale-related" failures, and that JPM had posted a record 2012 net income of $21.3

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Banking Compensation Government 8