2015 Benchmarking Operations 
BCG
MAY 9, 2016
BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics.
Harvard Business
JUNE 30, 2016
ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Who would argue that a business should not eliminate unjustifiable costs?
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. To fully enable a new vision of the future, organizations must make changes in five key business areas: Planning and Budgeting If organizations have easy access to—and indeed rely on—external talent, they can tackle new opportunities, experiment more nimbly, and operate in new areas.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
In 2015 U.S. The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. The numbers are striking. CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker.
Harvard Business
MAY 18, 2017
I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 9, 2016
From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business.
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 8, 2016
In the fall of 2015, after spending two years in a small town in the Ruhr Valley starting to learn German (I will appreciate Mark Twain’s perspective on the sprache so much better going forward), I moved to Frankfurt to begin my Executive MBA at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. This is a guest post from Marguerite Arnold.
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