Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Donald Trump often slammed American leaders for publicly telegraphing their ISIS strategy. ” President Trump is now deploying the “element of surprise” in his trade war strategy – and in particular how he is imposing tariffs on China. These people have all left.

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The July 29, 2015 edition of the Wall Street Journal featured an article titled, “The Cost of Germany’s Graying Managers.” One example in the WSJ article was about Autohaus Ochs GmbH, a Volkswagen dealership. My final example (from the article) is about the Brockhaus Group. As dad coasted, competition raged.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

I’ll broaden my scope of attention a bit more by continuing to focus on strategy even though I know there will continue to be numpties that will say, “we don’t do strategy” or “that’s not how we operate”. You will get marketing strategy. You will get branding. You will get pricing. Not just the hits, but everything about it.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. Strategy Consulting : tend to use “strategic” type case studies (more details below).

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In today’s data-centric digital landscape, intelligence is central to any business strategy, especially as we look towards 2024. Critical success factors (CSFs) represent the key areas or conditions you need to master for your business strategy to be successful. Are processes/technologies implemented as part of a holistic strategy?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. In fact, she logged nearly 200,000 miles that first year as she traveled to each site to share the strategy and reignite enthusiasm about the future of Xerox. Hope rekindled.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. This realistic, in-the-trenches guide offers six strategies that, when combined, give you a step-by-step approach for reaching entrepreneurial success. Conquer the Chaos shows you how.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Examples of great from/to statements include: From an individual contributor who adds value through technical expertise and closely follows others’ directions, to a people leader who creates a clear strategy and delivers results through a small team. If your goal is to be great at early-stage pharma R&D, it’s the same process.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

During the Immelt era, the dominant mode had been of strategy by way of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (MA&D), including most recently the disastrous merger of the GE oil and gas business with Baker Hughes in 2016. In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool.

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MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2015

Spain Joins the Negative Interest Rate Club Reader Bran emailed a link this morning to an El Pais Article that showed interest on a 6-month treasury auction in Spain went negative. This is quite a turnaround for Spain. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. Alan Mulally led the turnaround at Ford by restoring a “One Ford” mentality throughout his company and championing pride in the Ford name. It signed up hip celebrities as endorsers, closed some stores, and adjusted its assortment strategy.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 6, 2015

On May 4, 2015 a Wall Street Journal article discussed the Japanese company Suntory and its 2014 acquisition of Jim Beam. Sears was in the headlines because they are running out of cash as their turnaround is failing. Hitting that goal won’t be easy. The above two paragraphs make my point about where was the common sense.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Now a global giant in the drinks business, just 25 years ago, its precursor, Brahma, was a second-tier Brazilian brewer undergoing a painful turnaround in the hands of acquirer 3G, a São Paulo–based private equity house. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Changing company strategies is another, including new strategic product/market priorities and shifts to e-commerce. But too often, companies cut a few sales jobs and hope for a market turnaround that never happens. Error #3: Slashing jobs without rethinking sales strategy. The solution: Measure twice, cut once.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. But it’s also true for more traditional M&A, where CHROs are too often sidelined, rather than being central to driving strategy.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. Align the board on future CEO profiles that are driven by business strategy.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Building alignment and commitment to the firm’s strategy (in particular, by emphasizing empathy as much as urgency). Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. He quickly recognized that he had to institute a new strategy and culture. Too many CEOs fall short of these skills.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

But his core business is turnaround consulting. It’s sent in a fine wooden box with a handwritten letter telling the CEO he’s got his back in the next battle — but says nothing about his turnaround service. Here are two stories of how others have used contact marketing to inspire a few ideas for your own campaign.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 31, 2016

On January 18, I sent the article below (starting with the title Nate Silver Off the Mark on Donald Trump Nomination Odds ) to the New York Times as an Op-Ed. The New York times has the best turnaround of the bunch, three days so I could have used this earlier. They did not publish it.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 23, 2019

I reached final rounds and got dinged by Accenture Strategy just a few days before our LOMS practice case was to be recorded, but even though I got rejected and had nothing in the pipeline, I couldn't miss out on the opportunity to speak to you after you offered me a spot to be one of your selected few.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2018

GeneXpert, a lab-in-a-box that automates PCR, a diagnostic technique that ordinarily requires specialized laboratories that take weeks to set up, were deployed to new hot spots within days and reduced the turnaround time for testing from days to hours. Additional strategies are needed for dealing with such scenarios.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Plenty of theories have been put forth to explain Yahoo’s failures, as the company seeks a buyer following a failed turnaround attempt. Furthermore, Yahoo’s mobile strategy is far from the only cause of its recent struggles. One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. Kaufmann proceeded to engineer a turnaround of the company by focusing on the top end of the market. Other companies can do the same.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Having streamlined the portfolio and reset budgets, it is important to redesign the operating model — that is, the way the company is organized to deliver on its strategy — to eliminate any unnecessary work or dysfunctional processes that bog things down. Consider the remarkable turnaround at Ford.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. Planned successions exclude mergers and acquisitions, as well as situations when CEOs are abruptly forced out.) That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007. one of the authors of the study.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing. In sum, none were suitable candidates to succeed the CEO. But that potential had been squandered. You and Your Team Series. Learning to Learn. Erika Andersen.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations. Turnaround leaders pick up the pieces and make things right when a business or function is failing to perform. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

VP, Marketing, Communication, and Strategy 2011 – present. As the 8 th person to join this now 178-person manufacturer of recycled plastic building materials, created—from scratch—brand strategy and fully-functioning commercial infrastructure. Overall Strategy and Success. in revenue and 70 customers.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, when Xerox was undergoing its turnaround under Anne Mulcahy , in the early 2000s, each member of the senior team took responsibility for a small portfolio of key customers. But there are other, less dramatic techniques, too. This forced them to go meet these customers and hear how they felt about the company.

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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. ” Keeping it simple, with five core strategies in his long-term plan, helped people remember his message.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. This phase was loosely called leverage buy out (LBO) from about 1979 to 1990 and included over 2,000 LBOs. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Disclosure: Although Avaya currently has no ties with Innovators International, my interest in Avaya’s remarkable turnaround was initially kindled by the dozens of conversations I had with many people at Avaya when the company was a partner with our organization.). It takes a major cultural shift in the company.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But what if there were a way to make breakthrough progress by applying research-based tools and strategies to boost these numbers faster? Turnarounds play to many women’s strengths — particularly if they are challenge- and risk-seekers — including their desire to solve problems and make a difference.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

“If you’re entering a turnaround situation,” you need to be prepared to “inject new ideas” and make some tough decisions right away, Watkins says. She came back as a director of media strategy and content. ” Pace yourself. And yet sometimes you really have been brought back to fix a mess.

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