Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said. “Defection slowed to a trickle.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Finally, networking is important at consulting firms, and social events are focused on helping consultants build contacts and relationships throughout the firm. 3) Business knowledge – typically broad exposure across different topics like strategy, operations, organization and several areas where you’ll have expertise.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business.

Talent 28

Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Leading a turnaround requires much more than making a splash. In any event, one would hope people resist the temptation to make inferences about female leaders based on this case only, not least because Mayer is hardly representative of the average female leader or CEO.

Turnaround 28

Turnaround Leadership Case Study Case Studies 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

The research involved conducting and coding 88 in-depth behavioral event interviews of leading change with 65 leaders, spread across multiple industries and from across five continents. We all went to Uganda [one of their key operations]. “We started meeting in each other’s homes every few months. We traveled together.

Culture 28

Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

Strategy 28

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. This third phase has led to large private equity organizations governing their assets in a unique way.

Leadership 28

Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senior executives tend to be shielded from organizational problems and data; they are given limited and filtered information about their operations, employees, and customers. They felt uncomfortable socializing with her, and this isolated her from much of the day-to-day life of the organization.

How To 28

How To Turnaround Banking Meeting 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Compared with the predominantly male CEO benchmark, the women scored lower on confidence, measured as a function of belief in whether they were in complete control of events and outcomes that define destiny. In this context high humility reflects an understanding that no one person defines an outcome for an entire organization.

Interviews 28

Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. CEO succession is an ongoing process designed to develop the talent pipeline — not an isolated event. Insight Center.

Leadership 28

Leadership Talent Turnaround Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

Management 32

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 32

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school. We found the Architects sustainably transformed a school by challenging how it operated, engaging its community, and improving its teaching.

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