Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

They look at their business as platforms, not just as products and services. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. What’s a CEO to do?

Leadership 28

Leadership Metrics Operations Culture 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Practically every organization today has a set of core values that ideally function as the “operating instructions” of the company. Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established.

Ethics 52

Ethics B2C B2B Company 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

And in a small business, like a convenience store, it initially is: customers, employees, suppliers, and owners. It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. ” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on. The reason?

Case Interview 53

Case Interview Groups Small Business Examples 53

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy& 28

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Company 28

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. A new CEO was quickly able to help his team see they were victims of too much emphasis on global business units. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. ” Focus on key metrics.

Finance 28

Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. Enter ABIe (shorthand for the Allstate Business Insurance Expert), which my firm helped develop. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive.

Company 28

Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 28