Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business.

Energy 28

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Such organizations do so by prioritizing the things that drive the most value—customers and talent, data, and products—and then they are disciplined in their execution.

Agile 28

Agile Talent Data Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. This expertise may include restructuring debt, increasing financial leverage, clarifying strategic priorities, increasing productivity, implementing rigorous operational systems, or heightening accountability for results.

Talent 28

Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

But his framework also offers a model for rethinking the traditional four P’s of marketing: product , price , place , and promotion. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services. Consumers typically associate big food companies with mass-production methods and plastic packaging.

Marketing 38

Marketing Apparel Retail Company 38

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. ” Many CEOs in our interviews emphasized the importance of choosing the right metrics to support both/and decision making.

Metrics 29

Metrics Study Financial Operations 29

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

Study 28

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. Still, these metrics have yet to include broader measures of wellness such as academic achievement, involvement in crime, or job outcomes (i.e., health care outcomes.

Metrics 30

Metrics Efficiency System Development 30

Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

Boston Consulting Group 33

Boston Consulting Group Study Conference Survey 33

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 40

Development Real Estate Retail Guidelines 40