Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. Inventory challenges aren’t new. In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped.
Consulting Matters
APRIL 13, 2023
He applied for a financial manager job at Disney and was one of 1400 candidates. During his twelve-and-a-half-year tenure, he worked in finance and strategic planning before taking over as leader of Epcot theme park on the week of 911, 2001. Today, Brad Rex shares the real reasons why executives hire consultants and coaches.
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Organizational Talent Consulting
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Collins, J. HarperBusiness. Dhar, U., & Eisenbeiss, S.,
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. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. We calculate that U.S.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously.
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. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.
Organizational Talent Consulting
APRIL 18, 2022
It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Data-driven decision-making has become somewhat of a buzzword as many leaders and organizations aim to be data-driven. References Acemoglu, D., & Collins, J.
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