Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. It’s like we’re surgeons who have a patient bleeding out on the operating table. Or pull out our scalpels?”

Case Study 47

Case Study Case Studies Study Culture 47

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Too much of this sort of thing leads to a company full of different cultures, ideas and value systems. FTI CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. Private Equity.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

Turnaround 41

Turnaround Agile Operations System 41

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Various AI-related technologies, such as natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, robotics, machine learning, and speech recognition, have substan­tially progressed over the years to coalesce into systems that do, think, learn, and continuously adapt. Start small.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Industry Turnaround 28

1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals starting earlier and running longer, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly. Legacy systems are often overwhelmed and there’s no integration among disparate channels.

Retail 26

Retail Strategy& Strategy Strategy 26

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Key Processes are the operational and managerial capabilities that allow a company to deliver value in a way that can be repeated and scaled. Successful business models have an exceptionally strong CVP, and a stable, scalable system in which all the elements mesh together seamlessly while complementing each other.

Advertising 51

Advertising Turnaround Resources Comparison 51

1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals running longer and earlier, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly and customers happy. Retailers need to remain nimble.

Retail 26

Retail Strategy& Strategy Strategy 26

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business.

Talent 28

Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

This includes all non-quota-carrying roles in the organization: customer-facing support, sales operations and administration, and sales management. We found that the levels of operations and administrative support are what matters most. Sales support is critical.

Sales 39

Sales ROI Efficiency Operations 39

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile.

Turnaround 28

Turnaround Data Operations Company 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

The entire system of quarterly reporting has been regularly criticized but remains resolutely in place. Now a global giant in the drinks business, just 25 years ago, its precursor, Brahma, was a second-tier Brazilian brewer undergoing a painful turnaround in the hands of acquirer 3G, a São Paulo–based private equity house.

Turnaround 33

Turnaround Report Company Construction 33

Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Operated in regions with different levels of competition and access to resources. We could analyze the effects of 58 types of investment, on 18 performance measures over time, in 160 academies operating in 18 different regions. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken.

How To 28

How To Resources Education Turnaround 28

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. Mistaking quick thinking for systems thinking. The PE firm tried for six months to get the CEO to become more of a systems thinker and a real leader, but he resisted.

Company 28

Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

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.

Leadership 28

Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

developing the business plan and go-to-market strategy that has enabled us to maintain 100% ownership, operate part-time, grow it slowly over 20 years, and win Sam Adams’s 2016 “Brewing and Business Experienceship” year-long mentorship prize. BREWERY START-UP. With two partners, I launched Flounder Brewing Co.,

Resumes 28

Resumes Interviews Cover Letters Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Organizations should intervene to identify and develop promising future talent early in their careers, helping women broaden their skills by providing access to operating roles and leadership opportunities, both horizontal and vertical moves, in core business functions. And I learned that was a very important way to look at a company.”

Interviews 28

Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Companies wind up in trouble and squander the time, talent, and energy of their workforce when they lose focus, spend money on things that don’t make a difference to employees or the future of the business, and use operating models that are out of whack. redesign the operating model. Redesign the Operating Model.

How To 48

How To Energy Operations Bain 48

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. But these forms of external turbulence tend to be the trigger of free fall, not the cause.

Company 28

Company How To Turnaround Engineering 28

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. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

Metrics 32

Metrics Study Financial Operations 32

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

Management 32

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 32

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Some maintained secret wait lists outside the system, officially adding patients 14 days before their scheduled appointments. Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround.

Culture 28

Culture Leadership Resources Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

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. We found the Architects sustainably transformed a school by challenging how it operated, engaging its community, and improving its teaching.

Research 28

Research Study Education Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

There is no question that China poses unique challenges to the trading system that the American government must address. After all, the United States has long pushed the world to accept a system where protection arises after a careful government investigation into a trading partner’s adherence to globally-accepted rules.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Development programs must evolve from a static, closed-system approach.

Development 28

Development Leadership Talent Agile 28