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. Once a firm is acquired, the LCP often facilitates the transformation process.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle? How do you build a company that’s able to routinely toss what no longer works? Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.”

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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. The job becomes far more complex, requiring a deep understanding of how to make the parts of the organization function together. This July Founders Equity sold OSI to Jordan Industries.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Prior to landing the top job, female CEOs in the study worked in a slightly higher number of roles, functions, companies, and industries than men leading companies of a comparable size. As one woman put it, “They coach younger women on how to lead people and younger men on how to run a profitable business.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

How are those organizations better because of you? How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. You’ll show how you’d improve their organizations, based on what you’ve done in the past. Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive.

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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. Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%.

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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. ” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership. the one-click mobile purchasing app), it is the means through which we get work done (e.g.,

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