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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Severe Weather Threatens Businesses. It’s Time to Measure and Disclose the Risks

Harvard Business

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

Research by my co-authors and myself has found that firms improving their performance on industry-specific, material ESG issues outperform their competitors , and firms disclosing more information on industry-specific material ESG issues exhibit more informative stock prices and as a result more efficient pricing of risks and opportunities.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

We know that when IT projects fail, it is usually not because the technology didn’t work (although this can sometimes be the case), but because the changes required at an organizational and employee level weren’t managed effectively. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. In a major U.K.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business

We already see companies localizing time-sensitive and highly customizable forms of production to move closer to customer demand, particularly in the fast apparel (Adidas, Zara) and automotive (Tesla) industries, thus turning global supply chains into two-way streets. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. You will need to adopt the same logical, rigorous-but-efficient approach to solve a case for BCG as you will in a case interview for Uber or Canada Goose.