Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2024

However, what my undergraduate business program failed to emphasize was the often-overlooked world of startups —particularly small businesses that operate outside the spotlight of household brand names or well-funded tech giants such as Uber or Airbnb.

Transportation 88

Transportation Engineering Resources Productivity 88

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. ” Focus on key metrics.

Finance 70

Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

Single-screen “snapshots” of operational processes, marketing metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) can be visually elegant and intuitive. In many of these cases, companies end up with official-looking views into data that doesn’t align with business priorities. Probably not. The Causality Trap.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

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. In three years the progress is impressive, especially in the healthcare sector.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And then we get to my world of small business where it’s usually not malicious but is accounting incompetence. I’m working on a potential deal where the owner (and his advisors) setup five companies, two operating, one management, one for real estate, and one for equipment.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. Even in this new information age, not everything requires the razzle-dazzle of AI. And they are finding the tools increasingly useful, of course, in dealing with online customers.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Dependencies are a huge issue in most small businesses. And an owner dependency is often the brightest red flag for most profitable small businesses. It proves you have the team that can integrate one operation into another. Dependencies reduced. Not too much explanation is needed.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

According to the Business Roundtable, made up of the CEOs of 181 largest corporations, the principal purpose of a corporation is no longer only to maximize shareholder return (Business Roundtable, 2021). Leaders must be able to operate both within and upon the organization's culture.

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