Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Latin American subsidiaries are being held to more-aggressive sales and profitability targets in 2018, given a rebounding 2.7% conflict in the Middle East or Africa renewing the migrant crisis in Europe.

Marketing 29

Marketing Company Government Construction 29

Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

We found that companies that were successful in building CEs did three things: (1) They all implemented modular product architectures; (2) they leased, instead of sold, at least some of their products; and (3) they expanded their refurbishing operations. This allowed JLG to offer refurbished products at lower costs to its customers.

Policies 28

Policies Productivity Accenture Operations 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Founded in 1989 by three former consultants of the MAC Group (a boutique sales and distribution consulting firm), Cornerstone Research was established to be very different than the general management consulting firm it was birthed from; focused on unique clients, managing delicate client relationships, and offering specialized work.

Interviews 100

Interviews Research Culture Case Interview 100

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Indeed, a failure to understand your ownership options can ultimately cripple your business, causing it to lose its competitive advantage, even resulting in buy-outs or sales that nobody really wants. This model, which we call owner-operator , can be successful for many generations. Our great-grandfather wanted us to be equal owners.”

Operations 28

Operations Policies Company Government 28

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

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

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund.

Financial 28

Financial Engineering Finance Government 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. Meanwhile, Starbucks, CVS Health, Walmart, and JPMorgan Chase joined with more than a dozen other large U.S.

Talent 28

Talent Education Engineering Software 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The cloud is also a common repository for the collection and analysis of new data, and the place where an increasing number of artificial intelligence operations, like image and speech recognition, are conducted.

Change Management 31

Change Management Management Software Productivity 31

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” The two men went way back.

Case Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Study Construction 28