Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

With the EU’s passage of the Circular Economy Package in April, many European companies are now facing mandates to reuse the products they create for as long as possible. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. HBR Staff/Caspar Benson/Getty Images.

Policies 28

Policies Productivity Accenture Operations 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruptive products and services were, by definition, cheaper, lower quality, and lower margin. If you were running a profitable business with growth opportunities from an existing customer base, it was unlikely that you’d prioritize building low-quality products for over-served customers at lower margins.

Finance 28

Finance Financial B2B Industry 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The country’s ranking in dealing with construction permits (181) and enforcing contracts (164) is particularly bad. Example indicators include size (population, for instance, or state gross domestic product), expected growth, industry clusters, and market stability (including factors from workplace injury rates to crime).

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Operations 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. The Texas site alone produces more energy than what Owens Corning uses across its significant Texas operations.

Energy 28

Energy Industry Finance Operations 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). Presently, I am working with a DoD program that is contracting with a company to build and operate a drug/vaccine manufacturing facility.

Interviews 100

Interviews Consulting Government Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Corporate Finance/Restructuring.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

In one telling case , construction workers went home at the end of the week as employees only to be informed on the following Monday that, perhaps by the magic of some unknown force, they had become, “member/owners” of hundreds of limited liability companies, effectively stripping them of federal and state job protections.

Case Interview 46

Case Interview Insurance Insurance Government 46

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Consumer Fraud and Product Liability. Moving from economic consulting to a more broad-based focus may be a bit tricky, as you have superior experience in one particular facet, but minimal experience in others – and no experience in actual operational changes that are the bread and butter of most major consulting firms.

Interviews 100

Interviews Research Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) Consumer-facing businesses : Any company that enters the market offering lifestyle and consumer goods products could benefit from demand that has been unmet for years.

Government 28

Government Banking System Finance 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks.

Agile 28

Agile System Retail Data 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2014

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. The earth movers digging out a sandy pit in the beach town of Biarritz could be any construction site in France. A 3 billion-yuan ($496 million) Chinese trust product is on the verge of collapse.

Banking 78

Banking Retail Healthcare Sales 78

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations. The drop in construction spending is a necessary correction of previous overinvestment and is unlikely to be entirely reversed.

Balance Sheet 74

Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. How it effects product design and customer experience. How organizations are changing.

Change Management 42

Change Management Management Software Productivity 42

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Female managers are concentrated in fields that emphasize people-centered caring skills, while men are concentrated in fields dealing with production-centered skills. Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. Third, the bad news.

Data 35

Data Management Real Estate Transportation 35

Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. Some focus their best people on finding ways to squeeze out more profitability from existing operations, rather than creating new businesses.

Cash Flow 49

Cash Flow Financial Balance Sheet Bain 49

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic.

Management 28

Management Metrics Financial Company 28

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It has long championed inclusion as a partial solution to business challenges like turnover, productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Feedback is frequent and detailed, and constructive criticism is encouraged in the problem-solving process. LEK operates in an intense, associate-heavy case team structure.

Oliver Wyman 81

Oliver Wyman Boston Consulting Group Consulting Bain 81

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. ” These subsidies build on years of Chinese state support for foundational industries like banks, oil, utilities, telecom, and construction. In recent years, U.S. imports of goods made in China by companies that benefited from $7.3

Policies 28

Policies Industry Government Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. The cost of doing business — and especially the cost of local production — would go up, and budget-busting government spending increases would erode long-term business confidence despite short-term stimulus.

Marketing 31

Marketing Company Government Construction 31

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Collectively, the D5 nations serve two important purposes for our project: They give us a way to construct a global benchmark that can be used to assess D5 nations and other countries, and they each offer a case study and model for what smart can look like. The outcomes of this exercise are shown in the exhibits below.

Benchmarking 35

Benchmarking Government Policies Case Study 35

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

Banking 28

Banking Finance Policies Construction 28