Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. The result?

Operations 28

Operations Productivity Software Talent 28

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The Institute for Supply Management’s index of factory activity slipped to 50.1 Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 Overoptimism 2008-2010 The SEP growth forecast for 2008 never turned negative. The actual growth rate for 2008 turned out to be –2.8%—the in October from 50.2 in September.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Banking Study Policies 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 27, 2014

And they should have realised after the 2008 Great Recession that the longer they suppress volatility, both economic and market, the greater the subsequent crash. He also fails to note the housing bubble is a direct result of the Fed not taking its medicine in 2000 and 2001. Will these morons ever learn?

Banking 75

Banking Policies Financial Marketing 75

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Similarly, one day the team was packing away the furniture and a casual remark about how much space a pair of table legs took up led to another revolutionary idea: what would happen if we were to flat-pack our products? The rest is history, but it was a unique offering at the time. 18,000 people waited eagerly for the store to open.

Culture 28

Culture Real Estate Retail Company 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Managing Carbon and Energy. But LVMH does some unusual things.

Energy 28

Energy Productivity Retail Financial 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Then they buy stock in these public companies and attempt to convince management to increase the price of the shares. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Throughout his great career, Warren Buffett has made huge bets – for example, investing billions in Goldman Sachs during the financial meltdown of 2008. As the balance of power shifts from owner-managers to outside investors, will there be a greater focus in Berkshire on quarterly results?

Company 28

Company Healthcare Meeting Culture 28

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

And questions regarding the 2001 recession and ECRI have still not been answered. US Recession The US won''t decouple, just as China did not decouple from the global economy in 2008-2009 (a widely-held thesis I also knocked at the time). The opposite is the case now: lower prices and higher production/extraction costs.

Energy 28

Energy Data Metrics Marketing 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

Management 28

Management Metrics Financial Company 28

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean?”

Management 32

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 32

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them.

McKinsey 28

McKinsey Engineering Enterprise Research 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

When CEOs lack this expertise, they are more likely to manage R&D “by the numbers,” despite the fact that those numbers are more elusive than those for capital and advertising. Again, this occurs because division manager compensation is tied to division profits.

Company 28

Company Trends Research Case Interview 28

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The entry into force of the deal ensures that Barack Obama, elected president in 2008 on a wave of anti-war sentiment, will pass off both the Afghanistan war and his new war in Iraq and Syria to his successor. Opium Production at Record High That story was from 2010. Indeed, he said it’s the highest in modern history.

Policies 76

Policies Government Productivity Operations 76

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Clinton's sub-40% favorable ratings in 1992 were mostly a product of the public's lack of familiarity with her, rather than any kind of broad unpopularity. Her present rating is about as low as it was in March 2001, during her first few months in office as a U.S. I made that claim in 2008, well before Hillary realized it.

Interviews 28

Interviews Report Government Fashion 28