Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In 2013, Ashley Stewart was on the brink of bankruptcy — its second in a little over three years. Decades of operating losses and rampant turnover in both the employee base and ownership group had cemented a fearful culture. To give her a chance, I resigned from the board to become CEO in August 2013.

Operations 13

Operations Media Strategic Planning Sales 13

Vantage Circle

JUNE 25, 2021

An effective Leader is the most valued asset of an organization. Firms operated in a relatively smooth landscape. Fewer variation in international operations. It is estimated that digital data will grow from 400 billion gigabytes of Web-enabled data in 2013 to 40 trillion gigabytes by 2020” - Gantz and Reinsel.

Manager 52

Manager Recruitment Employee Engagement Inclusion 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. It’s now worth approximately $1,1200 per bitcoin.

Assets 15

Assets Government Software Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

Assets 15

Assets Operations Revenue Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

vehicles decreasing from 40% of total in 2000 to 17% in 2013), by destination (e.g., from 80% in 2000 to 50% in 2013), and by exposure to the economic cycle. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Revenue Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Such companies should pay close attention to the different ways in which the Justice Department claims egregious BP behavior and prevent such actions in their own operations. In March, BP settled civil claims by private plaintiffs for $7.8 See implicit BP admissions in its recommendations.).

Government 15

Government Operations Assets Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. GE is moving to an outcome-based economic model, bringing the company closer to its customers’ operations. Monetizing Digital Assets.

Insurance 14

Insurance Assets Media Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

Balance Sheet 13

Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

While investing in such material assets is easily done and provides immediate gratification, findings from our research using six years of data from nearly 3,000 acute-care hospitals suggest that it is the communication between caregivers and patients that has the largest impact on reducing readmissions. They are increasingly found in U.S.

Hospitality 13

Hospitality Administration Assets Benefits 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. According to Reuters reporting , until a few years ago the bank operated in Sudan, a country whose government was under U.S. sanctions, like Iran.

Government 15

Government Banking Operations Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. In the early 1980’s, sixty percent of corporate value creation emanated from the optimization of tangible assets.

Human Resources 15

Human Resources Administration Assets Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. Identify the core assets that create value for customers, and refurbish them. They first restored the assets determining whether people use a health center. Turnarounds operate on several time frames.

Assets 12

Assets Change Management Software Media 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment).

Cash Flow 10

Cash Flow Assets Benchmarking Sales 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

As Diane Mulcahy explained in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article : ”Angel investors — affluent individuals who invest smaller amounts of capital at an earlier stage than VCs do — fund more than 16 times as many companies as VCs do,” she wrote, “and their share is growing.” Steven Moore.

Biotech 14

Biotech Assets Scaling Media 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Evidence of this pressure is starkly captured in the return on assets (ROA) for all public companies in the US since 1965. This post is part of a series leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria. The result is relentlessly mounting performance pressure.

Fixed Costs 13

Fixed Costs Assets Scaling Education 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

Travel 12

Travel Sales Sales Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S. Amazon’s culture is a tight one, characterized by structure and precision.

Operations 15

Operations Compliance Assets Scaling 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Meanwhile, trustees control universities’ sometimes-giant endowments, and most often delegate this control to asset managers who treat the endowments as pools of money with the sole purpose of creating more money. It’s a game of responsibility hot potato.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Education Assets Administration 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France.

Assets 12

Assets Risk Management Government Recruitment 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. . He’s leveraged his maritime skills as a networking asset, becoming president of the sailing club at his business school.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Assets Recruitment Manager 15

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. They must retain enough control over core assets to maintain control of the ecosystem and to make money. Failure to engage developers.

Software 14

Software Assets Marketing Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. We began collaborating when we recognized how interlaced asset management and product recovery were in textbook CEs. We identified these approaches through our work with life cycle asset management company DLL.

Assets 8

Assets Scaling Operations Hospitality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. They’re not yet able to generate the kind of topline growth we’d normally expect to see in a company with the asset size they’ve got,” analyst James Gellert of Rapid Ratings International told Forbes after the earnings came out. And the company’s latest (Oct.

Marketing 13

Marketing Cash Flow Software Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013.

Leadership Development 13

Leadership Development Telecommunications Government Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In mid-September 2013, 10 professionals returning from multi-year career breaks walked into 270 Park Avenue in New York City to begin the J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model.

Diversity 10

Diversity Recruitment Assets Inclusion 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Assets reported on a balance sheet have to be physical in nature, have to be owned by the company, and be within the company’s confines. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Revenue Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

ISO 27001 was created in 2013 to ensure that security risks and threats to the business are assessed and managed, that physical security processes such as restricted access are enforced consistently, and that audits are conducted regularly.).

Hospitality 12

Hospitality Compliance Assets Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

years in 2013 from 60.3 As with any significant shift in the larger business and economic context, it is the duty of the board to exert the required pressure on the CEO and the management of the company to understand and address the impact of digitization on the operations and the long term position of the organization.

Digital Transformation 9

Digital Transformation Risk Management Operations Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. 100B in assets, and predicts double-digit growth in assets under management over the next several years.

Assets 8

Assets Marketing Operations Benefits 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Based on their experience, Mackey and Sisodia have coauthored a book, Conscious Capitalism , that was published in January 2013. After carefully assessing the complex internal and external context, Mulally made a daring but controversial decision to mortgage all of Ford's assets to obtain a $23.6 billion loan.

Scaling 11

Scaling Assets Employee Engagement Government 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Trends that are affecting fundamental concepts of business, and in turn IT: The basic ideas of capitalism--return on investment (ROI) and return on assets (ROA)--are being challenged by the historical stalwarts of capitalism ( Harvard , Drucker Society , Forbes , the London School of Economics and many more). IT management ROA ROI'

ROI 10

ROI Assets Revenue Scaling 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry.

Scaling 8

Scaling Revenue Accounts Government 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. 2013 revenue of about $450 million), knows this well. Getting the operating team into the M&A process early on helps them build good relationships with their counterparts.

Revenue 8

Revenue Assets Operations Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

As banks rush to digitize their operations , many have found that closing their local branches can help maintain a high return on an otherwise pricy transformation. since 2013 , and shrank by more than 1,700 in 2017 alone. Veronica Grech/Getty Images. reduction in a single year.

Banking 8

Banking Assets Education Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). As a long-term asset of significant value, the brand should be part of those calculations.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

This enables engineers to fine-tune a “high-resolution blast” so that it produces more predictably sized rock and dirt for subsequent loading, hauling and grinding, which together account for most of a mine’s operational costs.

B2B 8

B2B Engineering Benchmarking Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Talent : Zimbabwe has one of Africa’s strongest education systems , and consequently boasts an abundance of high-caliber talent, which means it is relatively easy for companies to find locals to run their operations.

Banking 8

Banking Government Marketing Telecommunications 8