Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. 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.

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MishTalk

MAY 21, 2014

I did not like the cultural change so I left and became an independent consultant. I was on a project at US Bank in Minneapolis involving a merger or sale of a Piper Jeffrey trading system. I met Pater under a different name on Silicon Investor in 2001. I have been through more bank mergers than one could imagine.

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Engineering Banking Education Training 77

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. These expectation-setting actions provided a public platform to build a performance-oriented culture and were crucial in transforming the culture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. This clear manifestation of respect powers huge inflections in organizational culture.

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Financial Culture Leadership Report 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy.

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Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies, collapsed in 2001, it sent shock waves through the corporate world. Setting goals is one of the established tools that managers have to increase staff motivation and performance. We asked the participants to explain how they would respond to a realistic business scenario.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Lucky for me, the world cooperated and our entire culture shifted from one based on long-term affilitations (you know, ''jobs'') to projects. Using the 80/20 rule as a guide, I realized that the top 30 titles probably accounted for more than 95% of their sales. But projects, one after the other, mark my career.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. How do they do it? Join the conversation.

Education 29

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system. The business model was to write the software and then sell licenses to publishers.

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