freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Why are Case Studies used? Note that they are not looking for a “right answer”; they are looking for a “right method” Types of case studies. Here are some examples of different approaches across industries; Management Consulting : tend to use “operational” type case studies (more details below).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Now a global giant in the drinks business, just 25 years ago, its precursor, Brahma, was a second-tier Brazilian brewer undergoing a painful turnaround in the hands of acquirer 3G, a São Paulo–based private equity house. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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Turnaround Report Company Construction 115

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As numerous studies have shown , expressing appreciation and saying “thank you” is one of the single most sustainable ways to motivate employees in the workplace. You don’t have to go overboard, it could be something as simple as: Thanks for the quick turnaround on this! It can also increase productivity.

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How To Turnaround Construction Efficiency 132

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

For starters, examining processes is a good intermediate way to study organizations, more aggregated than looking at individual tasks and more specific than looking at the organization as a whole. Beyond that, it’s a coherent way to study managerial work holistically.

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Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 110

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” The Turnaround. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

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Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 126

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010. Forbes hailed it as a veritable case study “on how digital transformation leads to business value.”

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Advertising Turnaround Resources Comparison 132

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story. CEOs in our study repeated their companies’ stories often and consistently to all their stakeholders — employees, boards, customers, business partners, communities, and the general public. . Adopt a Both/And Performance Mindset.

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Metrics Study Financial Operations 111

Tom Spencer

JUNE 23, 2018

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. Sam Smith worked in a top-tier management consulting firm for two years before taking time out for study. Image: Pexels.

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Consulting Case Interview Turnaround Analysis 88

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said. “Defection slowed to a trickle.

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Turnaround How To Survey Enterprise 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. one of the authors of the study. Last year 7% of incoming CEOs hired held the joint title of chair, a record low in the study — that’s down from 48% in 2002.

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Company Study Recruiting Recruitment 70

Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. But I’m struggling to reconcile his success with everything I’ve seen and studied, which runs counter to Byrne’s experience.

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Turnaround Fashion Exercises Training 100

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. The developer teams realized that they were more interactive than they initially imagined, but also needed quiet space to churn out quick turnaround projects.

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Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 129

Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

Whatever they ask for, you deliver with your best team and best turnaround — even if it’s unreasonable or unprofitable. No wonder a recent study showed that salespeople worry more about the price conversation than any other part of the sales cycle. ” You can’t afford to lose them.

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Turnaround Training Training Sales 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Mayer should become a case study for highlighting this point. Leading a turnaround requires much more than making a splash. For instance, large-scale studies have shown that CEOs account for a whopping 22% of variability in organizational performance (more than any other variable except the industry the organization is in).

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Turnaround Leadership Case Study Case Studies 71

Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

“If you’re entering a turnaround situation,” you need to be prepared to “inject new ideas” and make some tough decisions right away, Watkins says. Case Study #1: Reestablish yourself as a senior leader in the organization by being generous with your knowledge. ” Pace yourself.

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Company Case Study Case Studies B2C 134

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. Nearly all of the 50 cases of successful reversal of free fall that we have studied required at least one major new capability.

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Company How To Turnaround Engineering 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

One study I did as part of my work at Genesis Advisers and IMD, of HR leaders in Fortune 500 companies, showed that new hires represented on average one third of all transitions in the executive ranks in a typical year. The study also looked at relative levels of support for executives vs. more junior managers.

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Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school. We studied them over eight years, using 64 investment and 24 performance variables to identify what they did, when they did it, and the impact they had.

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Research Study Education Recruiting 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In a survey of nearly 3,000 executives about the success of their enterprise transformation efforts, McKinsey discovered the failure rate to be higher than 60%, while Harvard Business Review conducted a study that suggested more than 70% of transformation efforts fail.

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Turnaround Change Management Leadership Operations 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. The multitude of projects drove the company in numerous directions at the same time.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Turnaround 71

Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

Most of the LCPs we studied began with the task of ensuring the PE firm itself had the right talent, culture, and leadership, and then moved on to do the same for portfolio companies. A company turnaround focuses on costs and can often be done through financial reengineering and cost cutting measures.

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Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 71

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. Candesic offers strategic review and performance benchmarking studies, operational risk model diagnosis, and business process redesign. London EC2M 7EB. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 207 715 5200. Tel: +44 207 096 7680.

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BearingPoint Capgemini Strategy Strategy 99

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Subordinates will be even more fearful or sycophantic if the boss is insecure or capricious — and power may make leaders less likely to listen to others’ advice, as one study found. These CEOs become supported by a team of “yes-sayers,” people who don’t push back on bad decisions or offer different opinions.

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How To Banking Turnaround Meeting 70

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows. His approach led to a very successful turnaround of this country’s operation – and all done without the local leaders feeling culturally imposed upon.

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Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

has found that almost half of the private equity firms it studied replaced the CEOs who ran their portfolio companies, and in 60% of those instances the PE firm hadn’t planned to make the change at the start. Being a quick study is not the same as being a deep thinker. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Company Engineering Turnaround System 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Disclosure: Although Avaya currently has no ties with Innovators International, my interest in Avaya’s remarkable turnaround was initially kindled by the dozens of conversations I had with many people at Avaya when the company was a partner with our organization.). Avaya tried a lot of things that didn’t work.

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Methodologies Agile Exercises Metrics 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

To understand how to turn around a failing school quickly, using as few resources as possible, we studied changes made by 160 UK academies after they were put into remedial measures by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) up to seven years ago. Our findings challenge some of these beliefs.

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How To Resources Education Turnaround 70

Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

I didn’t cram like a lot of people do; I spaced out my studying out over a couple of years and that was really helpful for me. It’s rapid deadlines and very quick turnarounds. And how was the actual recruitment process for you? Were you expecting to get hired? What they do in a week, you do in a day. That was typical.

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McKinsey Interviews Case Interview Consulting 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

They must deliver on tight timelines, quick turnarounds and short project cycles. We’ve identified four specific elephants in this study, but don’t imagine that these few challenges are the only elephants tech leaders face. Relentless pressure: There are no breaks, pauses or downtime.

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Talent Culture Turnaround Interviews 70

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team. .”

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Financial Culture Leadership Report 70

Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

There are so many ways corporate relationships can be disharmonious; In one study , 94 percent of the participants stated they had worked at one time or another with an individual who created a toxic work environment. Most often, they’re going to need additional help in developing the strategies and actions to make a positive turnaround.

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Survey Turnaround Leadership Interviews 38

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next.

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Culture Leadership Resources Healthcare 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Throughout the research, Korn Ferry used our best-in-class CEO benchmark, which comprises typical scores for CEOs (virtually all male) who are in the 99th percentile of work engagement, as a touchstone to highlight similarities and underscore differences for the women in the study. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner.

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Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 71

ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. So many entrepreneurs experience this, and some have given up the hope of ever finding the money, time, and control they thought business ownership would bring them. But take heart!

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Consulting Small Business Video Ethics 52

MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

The proposal, which would be a turnaround in the history of modern finance, was part of a report written by a lawmaker from the ruling centrist Progress Party, Frosti Sigurjonsson, entitled "A better monetary system for Iceland".

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Insurance Insurance Banking Government 28

Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Not long after that I was trying to convince the man who has now been a client for a decade that moving from doing turnarounds as a CEO or COO to Leadership and Management Consulting was significantly different and that he did not have a team in place to handle the shift. Teams can trump persuasion.

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Marketing Consulting Software Turnaround 52

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

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