Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

Even if your firm has a healthy employee base and a strong balance sheet, chances are good that it’s about to face a significant shortage of qualified managers. In a 2014 PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of CEOs in 68 countries, 63% were concerned about the future availability of key skills at all levels.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. And in 2014, Pfizer, the U.S. According to the World Trade Organization, international trade this year will grow at its slowest pace since 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. Our current financial accounting model cannot capture the principle value creator for digital companies: increasing return to scale on intangible investments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S.-based More organizations are adopting a fully remote work culture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

These are often overlooked on balance sheets but can generate significant extra value for companies. Plus, the same measures that yield such efficiency gains also offer myriad other benefits , from improved employee health and retention, to better sales and lease-up rates, to enhanced brand reputation. Invest in smart controls.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

In the early days, following the company’s pivot from industrial manufacturing to marketing services, major acquisitions were the fastest way for it to achieve scale in its new industry. So WPP acquired the ad agencies J. After that, however, WPP practiced programmatic M&A, turning it into a strong muscle.

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