Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

” Vanity metrics are methods of measuring ROI that make product-builders feel good (or make them look good to funders), but don’t ultimately lead to awesome products. I wasn’t involved in the production of that ebook, but it’s still good!) has folded; the other, Catchpool, is still operating.

Media 127

Media Metrics eBook Software 127

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In our research we collected survey data from a manufacturing plant in Malaysia in 2014. The firm was responsible for manufacturing and sales of soaps, detergents, and other home cleaning products, and employees often encountered situations where there was compelling need to speak up about issues around current work operations.

Culture 133

Culture Company Operations Survey 133

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

Recruitment 125

Recruitment Recruiting Transportation Advertising 125

Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. Internet users had almost doubled between 2014 and 2018, reaching almost one third of the user base.

Productivity 132

Productivity Insurance Insurance Trends 132

Harvard Business

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. Who Benefits?

Government 132

Government Financial Banking Operations 132

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014.

Company 119

Company Engineering Operations Development 119

Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. Labor productivity increased by 5%, in an industry where productivity grew by only 2.5% per year between 1987 and 2014. We hope not.

Retail 71

Retail Sales Productivity Research 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. It was by thinking bigger and acting bolder that we developed and launched our Global Climate Commitment in 2014. What lessons can we share?

Company 134

Company Strategy Strategy& Strategy 134

Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. To understand a product’s sales potential, executives want industry-specific indicators.

Data 120

Data Marketing Sales Government 120

Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2017

In the fall of 2014, in the midst of controversy about Facebook’s real-name policy and selling of user data, a new social media platform called Ello caught fire. Ello vowed to forever be free of advertising , and its company manifesto boldly concluded with a promise to would-be users that “You are not a product.”

Media 121

Media Study Company Research 121

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. The result?

Operations 70

Operations Productivity Software Talent 70

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In these times of fiscal discontent and protests by Brussels, the expected improvement of public accounts in France in 2014 and 2015, the government had to be reassuring about the traditional collective fiscal year-end synopsis presented on Wednesday. of GDP in 2014 and 2.8% Spending Up €3.3 of GDP, higher than the 1.6%

Government 71

Government Survey Finance Meeting 71

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare diseases. While this may be more difficult for them to learn, it greatly reduces the pain of surgery and recovery, allowing the patient to walk immediately after the operation.

Metrics 130

Metrics Education Operations System 130

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. In a 2014 survey of business leaders at the Global Leadership Summit, almost 60% of leaders said that more than half of their workforce would be remote by 2020. The advisory firm we work for is one such company.

Management 131

Management Case Interview Leadership Interviews 131

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As McGrath and MacMillan explained in a 2014 article, the idea started in the mid-1990s while reviewing the projects Rita tracks in her “flops” file — her collection of failed growth projects that had lost their parent company at least $50 million. ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. .

Benchmarking 105

Benchmarking Methodologies Company Apparel 105

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.

Management 70

Management Banking Pharmaceuticals Productivity 70

Women in Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

These rules are effective January 1, 2014 and will affect over 4 million taxpayers. All tangible property expenditures with an acquisition or production cost under the stated threshold are to be charged to the expense accounts. The rule is limiting businesses to expense a purchase which is $200 or less and consumed within a year.

Balance Sheet 82

Balance Sheet Guidelines Policies Small Business 82

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

billion debit and credit card transactions, its research revealed a dramatic slowdown in the growth of everyday consumer spending from 2014 to 2015. Organizations have always collected data on customers, suppliers, products, and services. When JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyzed 12.4 Credit Suisse Group and Walmart Stores, Inc.,

Banking 116

Banking Data Financial Media 116

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators.

Nonprofit 115

Nonprofit Wireless Training Training 115

Harvard Business

JULY 22, 2016

Consider Steve Ballmer, who led Microsoft as its CEO from 2000 to 2014 as if his role were simply to keep the company afloat after Bill Gates left — what we call being a “leader-caretaker.” Instead, he placed all of Microsoft’s bets on the doomed Vista operating platform.

Software 70

Software Banking Government Productivity 70

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Consumer Products. Sean Sternbach – Director of Operations – Pet Lodge Pet Resort. 2014: “Restructuring Deal of the Year” for the firm’s work at Select Staffing -The Global M&A Network. 2014: “Woman of the Year in Restructuring.” Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness. Effectiveness. Industries.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

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.

Study 70

Study Productivity Efficiency Operations 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. From 2007 to 2014, Golan’s employees generated over 5,000 ideas, with an exceptional implementation rate of more than 70%. Justin Tierney/EyeEm/Getty Images. Impressive Results.

How To 132

How To System Resources Development 132

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. Operations in a Connected World. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 70

Company Apparel Retail Metrics 70

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

Midway through 2014, GE Appliances launched FirstBuild — a GE-equipped innovation lab and micro-factory — to augment the strengths of a long-established company with those of an entrepreneurial startup. Typically, FirstBuild will make and sell up to roughly 1,000 units of a new product. The FirstBuild Experiment.

Enterprise 71

Enterprise Productivity Engineering Retail 71

Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

The President of the Board is Dr. Ralph Shrader, who served as CEO from 1999-2014. Intelligence & Operations Analysis. Rohit Bhagat – Global Chief Operating Officer – Barclays Global Investors. Richard Gay – Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Operations – VH1 and CMT, MTV Networks.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview Resumes 100

Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

President of the board is Dr Ralph Shrader, who served as CEO from 1999 -2014. Intelligence & Operations Analysis. Rohit Bhagat – Global Chief Operating Officer – Barclays Global Investors. Richard Gay – Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Operations – VH1 and CMT, MTV Networks. CAPABILITIES.

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Interviews Resumes Government 100

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. Kalanick gets the same on Didi Chuxing’s board, and Uber gets around a 20% share of the Chinese company, which will run Uber’s Chinese operation as a separate brand.

Government 70

Government Operations Marketing Industry 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

As the Journal noted, “Most of the roughly half-million employees at Amazon unload trucks, drive forklifts and walk miles collecting products to fill orders.” ” And that’s what’s missing from this year’s letter — and from pretty much every letter since 1997.

Journal 117

Journal Engineering Energy Company 117

Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

For Nicholas that opportunity came at a convention in 2014, where he discovered that he already had a skill that could lend itself well in the marketplace. Look for commonalities between favorite clients, whether it be the particular business, size of a client’s business, or the products they offer.

Advertising 189

Advertising Consulting ROI Marketing 189

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. Show customers barely-working products with rough edges?

Company 70

Company Airlines Survey Methodologies 70

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Between 2012 and 2014 alone, Kraft, Royal Dutch Philips, Hewlett Packard, Ingersoll Rand, ConocoPhillips, Darden, and E-Bay agreed to split off substantial portions of their business in response to a groundswell of hostility toward underperforming diversified companies. Studying these companies up close is productive.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In response to Montebourg Announces Deal Between Goodyear and Titan to Save Union Jobs (One Problem - Goodyear Did Not Even Receive the Offer) , one of several recent posts on Arnaud Montebourg, France''s Minister of Productive Recovery, reader "AC" who lives in France responded. on their pensions, expected to bring €645 million in 2014.

Energy 57

Energy Finance Advertising Productivity 57

Kates Kesler

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Between 2012 and 2014 alone, Kraft, Royal Dutch Philips, Hewlett Packard, Ingersoll Rand, ConocoPhillips, Darden, and E-Bay agreed to split off substantial portions of their business in response to a groundswell of hostility toward underperforming diversified companies. Studying these companies up close is productive.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Trends Company 50

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions.

Financial 70

Financial Healthcare Insurance Insurance 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013.

Company 70

Company Software Sales Study 70