CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

Fatality Rate % x # of Patients = Total # of Deaths Example 1: If 10% of people die x 100 patients = 10 deaths Example 2: If 1% of people die x 1 billion patients = 10 million deaths The key metric that is overlooked by a lot of people is how many patients there will be as the virus progresses. It’s known as R0 (pronounced R-nought).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Disclosure: Although Avaya currently has no ties with Innovators International, my interest in Avaya’s remarkable turnaround was initially kindled by the dozens of conversations I had with many people at Avaya when the company was a partner with our organization.). Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? 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.

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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

JULY 20, 2016

I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. And I’ve spent years with colleagues at Harvard Business School and other academic institutions researching what makes people effective in their jobs. One key lesson I’ve drawn from all this experience?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We offer such a roadmap here, the outcome of a research project , at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, with 25 CEOs and their practices for mastering short-term pressures and creating long-term social and economic value, even in the toughest conditions. The CEOs in our study were adept at telling their company’s story.

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