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Three C’s Framework

Tom Spencer

It can help to assess the business situation in the context of entering a new market, M&A, product development, and starting a new business. How big is the market? How fast is the market growing? What is the concentration of customers in the market relative to the concentration of firms? What is its market share?

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Measuring Your Employees’ Invisible Forms of Influence

Harvard Business

New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. For comparison, the employee sample identified as low performers had an average network size of 20. Second, high-potential individuals in the go-to-market group spent 34% more time with product and engineering groups than the team average.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. Using a 3-to-1 matching of hospitals with no change as a comparison, we analyzed 1,640 firms in all. Both have advantages. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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10 Years of Data on Baseball Teams Shows When Pay Transparency Backfires

Harvard Business

In one PayScale survey of 71,000 people, for example, 64% of those paid the average market rate thought they were paid less than average. At the same time, 35% who were paid above market rates also thought they were paid less than average. Evidence suggests you probably aren’t very accurate.

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. A subsequent milestone might be delivering $10 billion in sales of the new product or service.

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Note-Taking in a Case Interview

CaseInterview.com

It is the most practical and intuitive resource on the market, in my opinion. So, if in a profitability case, I explore cost and sales. A business metric is only unusual if you don't understand the business. Question: Thank you for creating the Case Interview Secrets videos and Look Over My Shoulder ® program.

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3 Ways Data Dashboards Can Mislead You

Harvard Business

Single-screen “snapshots” of operational processes, marketing metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) can be visually elegant and intuitive. Not only does the metric itself require significantly more information to drive action, but it simply doesn’t align with his goals and business model. Probably not.

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