Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. 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.

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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.,

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals starting earlier and running longer, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly. Cloud solutions can also offer real-time knowledge management to provide more relevant and consistent answers that are desperately needed during the holidays.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

There is, of course, nothing wrong with the openness and transparency that lies behind quarterly reporting. While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. It’s like we’re surgeons who have a patient bleeding out on the operating table. Do we join hands and sing Kumbaya?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

It is always hard to know whether such self-promotional statements are a reflection of self-delusions or an attempt to manage impressions (and fool others). Leading a turnaround requires much more than making a splash. In hiring one of the super-stars of the tech and business worlds, Yahoo focused on raising its profile.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The pattern is clear, and diligent leaders often devote countless resources to planning out the perfect change management initiative. One study found that when it comes to decision making, coordination, and conflict management, teams that have a low degree of self-awareness are less than half as effective as teams that are highly self-aware.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Hiring managers will see what you have done — and can do for them. He’s building a bridge between challenges he’s met in the past and challenges the hiring manager is currently facing: “Build start-ups’ commercial infrastructures from the ground up—driving long-term growth and profitability.

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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.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. By attacking the root causes of organizational drag, companies can eliminate unnecessary work, reenergize the workforce and, at the same time, put the business on a better course. redesign the operating model.

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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. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers.

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