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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. The firm’s first turnaround client was the household brand, Timex Corporation. Turnaround and Restructuring. 2015) #2 Top Restructuring Firm – The Deal Out-of-Court Restructuring League.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010. By comparison, $1,000 of Chipotle stock purchased the same year and sold at its peak in 2015, before the e-coli scare, would have only been worth about $5,000.

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GE’s Fall Has Been Accelerated by Two Problems. Most Other Big Companies Face Them, Too.

Harvard Business

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool. billion equity investment in GE stock, one that made it a top 10 shareholder. GE stock was trading at $25.47

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

In “Change Through Persuasion” (2005), another piece coauthored with Michael Roberto, he departed from that norm, describing how Paul Levy, then CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, led a painful turnaround. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better).

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Best Business Books 2015: Narratives

Strategy+Business

Some of this year's best business books are narratives that cover the divergent fortunes of three hot technology companies -- one that crashed to earth, one in the midst of a wrenching turnaround, and one that is soaring into the stratosphere.

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Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World’s Biggest Companies

Harvard Business

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. (Planned successions exclude mergers and acquisitions, as well as situations when CEOs are abruptly forced out.) That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007. one of the authors of the study.

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