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.

Management 29

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 29

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

Talent 28

Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth. Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry.

McKinsey 28

McKinsey Turnaround Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking 28

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? They were four years older, when compared with benchmark data, before becoming CEO and brought more-diverse functional and industry experience to the position. ’ I went anyhow.”

Interviews 28

Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 28