Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

These challenges forced BioLite to reevaluate our approach and customize our sales methods to a market that demands an entirely different way of doing business. It was a good idea in theory, but ultimately it was too passive as a sales approach: Simply placing our HomeStove on a shelf did not lead to uptake. Here’s the thing.

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Sales Marketing Development Retail 28

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

However, today BearingPoint is emerging as a player in the operations and technology scene, especially in Europe, and has re-established an impressive growth trajectory. Now, BearingPoint is operated as a Netherlands-based partnership which consisted of 120 partners in 14 countries throughout Europe. Supply Chain & Operations.

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BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. Transportation. In fact, in terms of firms we profile, they are truly one of the new kids on the block. Practice Areas. Strategic Planning. Revenue Improvement.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2014

Low-cost carrier Dobrolyot, operated by Aeroflot, suspended all flights last week after its airline leasing agreement was cancelled under European Union sanctions because it flies to Crimea, a region Russia annexed from Ukraine in March. Last week Russia struck at Poland, banning fruit and vegetable sales from that country.

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Airlines Tourism Transportation Operations 76

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments.

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Recruiting Recruitment Transportation Advertising 36

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

Transportation 47

Transportation Real Estate Financial Operations 47

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. These disruptions add up.

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Cash Flow Apparel Financial Sales 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2016

But gains in financial operations? Moreover, it is now possible to create cars, trucks, aircraft, and boats that are completely or partly autonomous, which could revolutionize transportation, if regulations allow, as early as 2020. Autonomous vehicles could revolutionize transportation. Yet, this category is over-rated.

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Industry Biotechnology Transportation Healthcare 28

Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Cost Savings: Employees can save on transportation, parking, and commuting expenses. Having a remote work infrastructure in place enables organizations to continue operations and minimize downtime, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery to clients and customers.

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Leadership Training Training Productivity 101

Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Electric cars, ride-sharing and autonomous driving will change how we use cars and it is likely that in the future car ownership will fall significantly, considering the high upkeep costs and the increasing availability of other quick and reliable transport services.

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Industry Film System Transportation 106

Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

.” When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. billion in sales in today’s dollars). Yet, you never hear who built GM to that size.

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Transportation Automotive Engineering Sales 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. Stores overwhelmed by a daily stream of directives from headquarters, dozens of sales reports to read, and 100+ management tools to use. Predictable schedules.

Retail 35

Retail Operations System Transportation 35

MishTalk

JANUARY 23, 2014

In an effort to get money out of Venezuela, airline ticket sales had been booked solid for months. Airlines operating in Venezuela fell and one carrier suspended flights. billion in bolivars trapped in Venezuela that they can’t expatriate because of exchange controls, according to the International Air Transport Association.

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Airlines Travel Government Transportation 77

MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Rising vacancy rates and plummeting rents are increasingly common in Chinese malls and department stores, despite official data showing a sharp rebound in retail sales that helped the world's second-largest economy beat expectations in the third quarter. Major listed mall operators are also feeling the pain. That's the banks' problem."

Cash Flow 28

Cash Flow Retail Real Estate Deloitte 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world. Utilities are rolling out smart meters and introducing dynamic pricing schemes. That mandate is worth keeping.

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Company Real Estate Government Transportation 33

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. The petition was seen as instrumental in getting the city council to adopt new regulations which permitted Uber to operate legally. How can new firms overcome the regulations that protect incumbents?

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Government Retail Sales Pharmaceuticals 34

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Surface Transportation. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. Each of these five companies were at the leading edge of corporate engagement with this issue.

Energy 28

Energy Case Interview Insurance Insurance 28

Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

I’m not a strict operator. The majority of my successes in my career have been in getting those two groups to kind of talk together and to take the engineering vision, and kind of bound it with the operational limitation, and make sure everybody is on the same page. Sometimes it’s not operational capacity.

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Interviews Company Marketing Operations 156

Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

Industry 28

Industry Retail Accenture Transportation 28

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Marketing & Sales. Operations. Kearney works collaboratively with companies to transform their operations in order to gain unprecedented competitive advantage. Transportation & Travel. Communications.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

The firm sold a majority stake in the US government business for $2.45B to the Carlyle Group (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Booz & Company, owned and operated as a partnership, assumed the commercial strategy role. Operations and Logistics. Transportation. Program Management. Information Technology. Automotive. Consumer Products.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

Even with the project’s delays and costs , city planners confronted the fact that the old infrastructure just wouldn’t fit the area’s transportation demands. By following this tactic, managers also avoid the operational risks involved with cutting across old systems into new ones.

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Agile System Retail Data 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

In addition, some cities put an artificial limit on the number of taxi operators by requiring them to buy medallions and agree to a set of local regulations. Uber ignored all of these requirements and reinvented local transportation by offering a more convenient service. The company has more rooms available than any hotel chain.

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Company Hotels Banking Industry 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Companies that offer good jobs today — with decent wages, predictable schedules, and opportunities for success and growth — do so by combining investment in people with operational choices that increase their employees’ productivity and contributions. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

Retail 28

Retail System Training Training 28

Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations. But Microsoft’s management saw in LinkedIn a valuable new sales channel that the market had missed.

Company 28

Company Talent Accenture Transportation 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

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Operations Comparison Transportation Marketing 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. An obvious place is within an existing operational excellence or performance department. While the initiatives may produce some success, it’s likely that they will lack coordination and optimization.

Company 28

Company Ethics Resources Data 28

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) Transportation. FTI CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. Office Locations. Charitable giving.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2015

For us housewives, this is welcome news for our daily shopping,” said Anita Mueller, who was perusing sales on Banhofstrasse, Zurich’s main thoroughfare, on Monday morning. TUI Suisse, one of Switzerland’s biggest tour operators, cut prices by 15% on vacation packages to sunny destinations around Mediterranean Sea.

Banking 28

Banking Travel Hotels Retail 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2017

About this forecast To create this forecast, the Stevens team conducted a dynamic forecasting computer-based simulation, which considered consumer purchasing behavior, insurance revenue calculation, automobile market sales, and new insurance sub-categories.

Insurance 37

Insurance Insurance Software Policies 37

MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund. Chicago’s property tax revenues do not go into its general operating fund. It is the third largest city in the United States and a vital transportation hub.

Financial 28

Financial Engineering Finance Government 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. The software, called Personal Book , allows Nordstrom to promote sales, special appearances, and store events in a more targeted manner.

Software 28

Software Company Intellectual Property Airlines 28

freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

Uber Also based in San Francisco and launched more recently in 2010, Uber uses a smartphone app to receive requests of people needing transportation, and then sends out these requests to their drivers who transport the customers to their final destinations. billion since its launch.

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Hotels Transportation Energy Company 53