Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

Financial 28

Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

We surveyed and interviewed executives from more than 2,000 companies, asking extensive questions about how they develop leaders, how their companies are managed, how they coordinate their work, and what their organizational culture looks like. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

Leadership 37

Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 37

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

Agile 28

Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I have now interviewed hundreds of actual entrepreneurs — including founders of Amazon, Apple, Biogen, Boston Scientific, iRobot, Netflix, PayPal, and YouTube — as well as new venture and innovation leaders in large companies like Disney, Target, Toyota, and Coca-Cola. Fly-your-own-plane-to-your-own-private-island-level wealth.

Interviews 33

Interviews Company Insurance Insurance 33

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Others wanted power in order to bring out the best in their teams and foster an inclusive culture.

Management 39

Management Leadership Culture Development 39

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed.

Data 29

Data Journal Media Video 29

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

In-depth interviews with these leaders provide some insight and solutions that can help us when we do face these quandaries. More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Cross-cultural differences. and the U.K., Emotional intelligence can help you here.

Ethics 34

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Study 34

Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. This age is ripe with opportunity. That’s how to be truly digitally sustainable.

Agile 28

Agile Talent Data Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

When we recently interviewed top M&A executives in Europe about their experience, fully three-quarters of them said that digital disruption has had a relatively large impact or even requires a complete overhaul of their M&A strategy. Indeed, integration of digital assets is a huge, thorny problem fraught with cultural issues.

Company 28

Company Finance Advertising Tools 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

This starts in the interview process when you have the opportunity to articulate your values to prospects during the hiring process. This message is reinforced in meetings, at events, and with various awards for contributing to the culture. One of the metrics they follow is how long it takes to properly greet customers.

Training 28

Training Training Survey Report 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. Defining and tracking success metrics. If not self-aware, a PM may push to prioritize a feature they conceived even when all the customer interviews and evidence is stacked against it. Running design sprints. Company Fit.

Productivity 28

Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The physician-sherpa should be a partner on the journey, not simply a medical operative, extracting formulaic rules and implements from a toolbox. Health systems that want to avoid those pitfalls need leaders who invest in shaping an organizational culture that values hearing patients’ voices. Patients need and deserve much more.

Guidelines 35

Guidelines Efficiency System Meeting 35

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Analysis 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

To explore this question, we interviewed senior marketing executives across dozens of top brands. The metrics also changed. This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. The results?

Marketing 41

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 41

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

However, not all of its resources are pointed towards consulting, as it offers three lines of services, Audit, Tax and Advisory, with the Advisory arm of its operations (where consulting lives) generating $9.09 Within the US, KPMG LLP operates from 87 offices with more than 23,000 employees. Operating Effectiveness. Outsourcing.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Culture : Is the work environment healthy or toxic? It has an academic culture focused on continuous improvement.Intellectual rigor and factual analysis skills are vital components of success, as is a can-do attitude with an optimistic focus. Hours are long, and the culture can be demanding. Employee Satisfaction. Diversity.

Oliver Wyman 81

Oliver Wyman Boston Consulting Group Consulting Bain 81

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

Innovation has to be a company-wide endeavor, supported from top to bottom by systems, structures, and a company culture that nurtures transformative ideas and products. Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures.

System 30

System Talent Resources Research 30

Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

To understand the connections and applications, we interviewed over 20 CMOs and CEOs, finding a remarkably similar pattern across a highly diverse set of companies. Melissa Waters, CMO of Lyft, says “Any customer these days is asking for transparency on what a company stands for and why they operate.

Marketing 35

Marketing Metrics Healthcare Company 35

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The more calls they received, the more operators they needed, and the more their margins eroded. They would continue tracking their normal metrics but, for the next few weeks, these metrics wouldn’t impact teams’ compensation. Fintona Financial (not the company’s real name) had a problem. ” Yeah, ouch.

Company 42

Company Metrics Financial Benchmarking 42

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

Metrics 30

Metrics Study Financial Operations 30

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

In that same Wired piece: …what began with aesthetic judgments of the digital renderings—the Los Angeles Times’ architecture critic called the Ring a “retrograde cocoon”—has lately turned to social and cultural critiques. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate System Software Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

And we interviewed the leaders and their teams to understand the challenges they faced, when they occurred, and how they overcame them. We found the Architects sustainably transformed a school by challenging how it operated, engaging its community, and improving its teaching.

Research 28

Research Study Education Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. Interview questions were designed to test applicants for these traits. Create a dedicated multidisciplinary team.

Case Interview 28

Case Interview Insurance Insurance System 28