Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

Competition can come from firms within an industry, or from firms in other industries who produce substitutes. Competition can also come from suppliers and customers within the supply chain who exert bargaining power to extract a larger share of industry profits. What is the concentration of competitors in the industry?

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Case Interview Industry Productivity Interviews 60

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

It finds that companies that take a long-term view perform better on many metrics, such as employment growth and shareholder return. McKinsey tries to address this issue by doing comparisons within industries. Its findings deserve much discussion, debate, and attempts at replication.

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McKinsey Cash Flow Comparison Methodologies 29

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The recent bankruptcy filing at Toys “R” Us has roiled the toy industry. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. The local toy store seemed positively drab in comparison. Yet the struggles at the company are not new.

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Retail Comparison Industry Training 32

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

ADP, a leading provider of payroll capabilities, allows customers to use its DataCloud tool to compare themselves to other firms not only how much employees are paid, but also metrics like their average job tenure, attrition rates, how much they invest in retirement accounts, and at what age they retire.

Benchmarking 28

Benchmarking Software B2B Comparison 28

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. Using a 3-to-1 matching of hospitals with no change as a comparison, we analyzed 1,640 firms in all. Both have advantages. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Study Productivity Efficiency Analysis 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

Though soft skills are quite literally unquantifiable, they are essential in consulting, an industry that can be incredibly people oriented. Out of last year’s class of 320, 28% went in to the consulting industry with an average starting base salary of $131,911, and an average signing bonus of over $27,503.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Transparency creates an expanded playground for our comparisons, potentially heightening our attention and obsession with it and elevating the negative emotions and behaviors that result. It is hard to imagine a policy change that does more to place pay comparison in everyone’s face than pay transparency.

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Comparison Groups Talent Course 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Establishing appropriate performance metrics and assigning attribution. Be prepared to revise metrics as the center evolves and celebrate small wins.

Healthcare 30

Healthcare Metrics Engineering Financial 30

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2017

To analyze this, we used data from an industry where individuals’ pay and performance are quite transparent across firms and also, at least for some, are quite unequal: Major League Baseball. While sports are different from other industries in many respects, baseball makes a good test case for this kind of study for several reasons.

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Data Sports Metrics Case Interview 29

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

or foreign-educated, and the sector and industry in which they work. Consumer Products and Banking and Finance are two other major concentration industries. Further research will be required to gain insights into the performance of immigrant leadership talent in comparison with the overall population of business leaders.

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Data Healthcare Talent Training 29

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

As Sue Schell, founder and director of Advanced Energy Industries, a $400 million high-tech company with locations in the U.S., Our aim here was to draw attention to the comparison metrics. While from the outside some might consider this a failure, the entrepreneur might view her move as a successful exit.

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