Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Managing complexity has always been part of the leader's job — be it sorting out the variables involved in strategic decisions , orchestrating the interaction of different functions , or responding to unanticipated events. But today, coping with complexity is an even bigger part of the manager's responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The success of an activist strategy is contingent upon placing a management team in an extremely reactive, frenzied and compromising position. Because by the time the activist has engaged senior management, they have already performed extensive due diligence on the company and have a detailed strategy they intend to pursue.

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Balance Sheet Revenue Cash Flow Reorganization 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.”

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Balance Sheet Digital Transformation Engineering Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

To shift to a remote model successfully, however, management practices have to adapt to remote work, even if only a few workers are remote. based CIOs, 30% said communication was their greatest remote management challenge, followed by productivity (22%) and technology (22%). The Future of Collaboration. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Balance Sheet Travel Accounts Project Management 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. Mittelstand managers give their workers a great deal of their time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Platforms of engagement, based on human experiences, are the new loci of value creation and therefore the new engines of capitalism. billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 billion were within the balance sheet, rising 7% versus the average of 0.5% It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97

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Cash Flow Balance Sheet Hospitality Insurance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Here, I include both basic storage, processing, and communications technologies, as well as the more sophisticated architectures, analysis tools, and cognitive technologies that are the engines of monetization.

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Balance Sheet Assets Scaling Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. IT management' And they hesitate to create strong, progressive IT positions all the time.

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Balance Sheet ROI Engineering Accounts 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

As important as the volunteers were to BrainGame, they were an opinionated group­ and weren’t always easy to manage. Klara Eberhart, the head of engineering, interrupted. We need to bring in people whose expectations we can manage.” She proposed hiring 15 to 20 new engineers. Klaus folded his arms, but Klara wasn’t done.

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Engineering Balance Sheet Deliverables Manager 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We have, as a society, elected a Congress of fiscal fantasists that managed to convince us (and we didn't take much convincing) that we can cut taxes while spending whatever we like with no long-term costs. How did we get here? So having built this fiscal trap, both rhetorical and real, Congress needs a way out — but what is it?

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Balance Sheet Government Media Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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Government Balance Sheet Performance Review Manager 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

But while such information exchanges have become technically feasible, they are not yet financially beneficial to the information provider and difficult for the customer to value and incorporate into their management systems. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

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Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

Experience has taught me that the art of good M&A requires a combination of careful research, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail that might otherwise get overlooked; due diligence requires more than a scan through boxes of contracts and reviewing the balance sheet.

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Balance Sheet Engineering Sales Sales 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP).

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Cash Flow Balance Sheet Energy Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

What we are not seeing, however, are many signs of truly ambitious growth strategies which could result in companies putting newly restored balance sheets to work. companies in the study generally view digital technologies as a way to streamline existing operations and improve customer relationships — not as an engine for growth.

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eCommerce Balance Sheet Strategic Planning Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control.

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Marketing Balance Sheet Compensation Benefits 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Managers have to figure out their higher and lower risk intelligent device vulnerabilities, add in redundant systems, and potentially set up the AI equivalent of tsunami early-warning systems. As a result, no company will be able to recover on its own.

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Insurance Balance Sheet Government Scaling 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

But while such information exchanges have become technically feasible, they are not yet financially beneficial to the information provider and difficult for the customer to value and incorporate into their management systems. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. We normally think of people as something to be managed. Human capital. Intellectual capital.

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Assets Software Balance Sheet Human Resources 8

Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Despite stiff economic headwinds, robust M&A opportunities are there for the taking, with many companies enjoying steady cash flows and strong balance sheets. “In In today’s high-inflation environment, strategic acquirers with lots of cash on the balance sheet need to do something with it,” says Christopher R.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Software Marketing 52

Peter Winick

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Recognizing its potential during a Mastermind session, she and her team developed a groundbreaking AI tool to simplify and analyze messy small business balance sheets. How about managing people? So we used the same format for managing people so the stories don’t make these mistakes. That was really successful.

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Media Small Business Balance Sheet Scaling 299

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Its powerful search engine serves as a platform that instantaneously brings others’ content to users. Develop an honest capabilities balance sheet, highlighting both strengths and weaknesses, and compare it to your blueprinted business models. Google, for example, doesn’t produce any original content.

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Media Advertising Balance Sheet Cash Flow 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. For more on what the law does, go here.

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Banking Balance Sheet Compliance Assets 12