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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. With a constantly expanding field of practice areas, BTS is on its way to being a major player in the consulting industry. Industries. Pharmaceutical and Biotech.

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Fixing Pharma’s Incentives Problem in the Wake of the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Harvard Business

Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. And what can we learn from it? Commercial.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types. Digital native upstarts are gutting traditional industries one at a time, leveraging scalable technology and participative networks. This will require reporting on new metrics.

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business

We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). And fifth, while these companies do have leadership “programs,” they are embedded in the business, and HR does not operate alone.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

Prestige : How much influence does the consulting firm carry in the industry? It has consistently been the #1 most valued brand in the consulting industry and is associated with cutting-edge strategic approaches. It was known for a concierge business model: one client per industry, letting it maximize value per client.