Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Detractors, on the other hand, point to negative consequences including performance and productivity declines, decreases in customer satisfaction, and adverse effects on remaining employees, such as increased stress.

Company 28

Company Balance Sheet Resources Financial 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Moreover, when it comes to that metric beloved by stock market analysts and investors, total returns to shareholders, these firms also outperformed.

Comparison 28

Comparison Research Productivity Policies 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. This type of management boosts the velocity of decision making.

Agile 28

Agile How To Enterprise Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Whom we hire, how we manage, and whom we fire have far greater impacts on results than the things we usually think of as driving success. This should be obvious to all of us; after all, decisions don’t just materialize from the ether, ready to be executed on by managers sitting in a conference room primed to act.

Engineering 28

Engineering Education Talent Metrics 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

Study 28

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Energy 28

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s. This needs to change.

Development 43

Development Real Estate Retail Guidelines 43

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed. Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. Eight product divisions, with very high degrees of autonomy, were the center of its operating model for more than a decade.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began his tenure, in 2010, by lowering targets by over one-third, in a single bold move.

Metrics 30

Metrics Study Financial Operations 30

1 to 1

JUNE 11, 2013

--> -->. ); 1to1 Media is a division of Peppers & Rogers Group, a leader in Management Consulting. Hard Knox Life: A Brand Manager Blog. Such immediate social interactions include asking fans to pick their favorite product in the store, then loading these items onto each customers card for free for immediate redemption in-store.

Media 37

Media Advertising Trends Video 37

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.

Leadership 42

Leadership Handbook Healthcare Emotional Intelligence 42

MishTalk

JANUARY 8, 2015

In spite of inane inflationary policies of the Fed and corruption in politics everywhere, rising productivity over time was the enabler of growth. I''ll close with one more example of why I completely reject the Alternate CPI as a valid metric. However, some of that growth has been at the expense of debt (and future expansion).

Government 28

Government Policies Banking Data 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. The implications are threefold: The best product doesn’t always win.

Media 34

Media Advertising Metrics Productivity 34