Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. Inventory challenges aren’t new. In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped.

Metrics 254

Metrics Financial Industry Marketing 254

Consulting Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

During his twelve-and-a-half-year tenure, he worked in finance and strategic planning before taking over as leader of Epcot theme park on the week of 911, 2001. He was offered an executive job at Disney and moved to Orlando, Florida, in 1994.

Consulting 156

Consulting Finance Turnaround Healthcare 156

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

Management 70

Management Metrics Financial Company 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. Use New Metrics. As such, it is deadly to hold them to standard big-to-bigger growth metrics. They require their own set of metrics that will enable them to grow and flourish. TodUdom/iStock.

Management 71

Management Enterprise Metrics Productivity 71

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

For my money, “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions” (2001), which Garvin wrote with Michael Roberto, is the best piece on organizational decision making in HBR’s archive. The central idea is that decision making is a process, not an event.

Management 110

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 110

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2014

What they found surprised them. As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. Ergo: heuristics win. There are other areas where the heuristic advantage might be even greater.

Retail 70

Retail Apparel Financial Case Interview 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Moreover, when it comes to that metric beloved by stock market analysts and investors, total returns to shareholders, these firms also outperformed.

Comparison 70

Comparison Research Productivity Policies 70