Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Seminar Products Productivity 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Once we release Gravity, we focus on finding our true value, mapping that to realistic market opportunities, create a flight plan (including waypoints to manage progress) and away we go! The book helps readers learn to release their Gravity – those beliefs that hold them down. Once we challenge our beliefs and knowns –the sky is the limit.

Open-book 272

Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

During the Great Recession of 2008, companies around the world downsized their workforces. American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Many of these effects may have long-term consequences, like reduced innovation, that are not captured in short-term financial metrics.

Company 8

Company Short-term Altman Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The concern I expressed in the post was that these actions have become the standard by which CEOs are expected to manage. I, along with the rest of my management team and the board, agreed with the recommendation, and the drug was withdrawn. We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs.

Restructuring 9

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager. The 180-year-old house of brands hasn’t managed to survive this long without making bold steps in the past.

Brand 15

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 15

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. This company lost $5 billion in 2012 and hasn’t made a profit since 2008. The new economy has accelerated the need for change in the branding process. Not so long ago, Sony looked invincible.

Brand 260

Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." So many of the elements," she pointed out herself, "are simply good management procedures. It is a great economic waste.".

Restructuring 9

Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To get the "people" part of process improvement right, HR needs employees who can go toe-to-toe discussing operational changes with line managers. HR professionals need credibility to challenge line managers on whether they are improving the attitudes and skills of their people at the same time they're redesigning their jobs.

Process 15

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

For Allen Printing, 2008 should have been a banner year. Heffington, working with Steve Curnutte, a restructuring advisor, realized that as new orders poured in, it became difficult to establish the true cost of fulfilling them. Sales at the family-owned printing business in Nashville, Tenn., The cost for using this tool is $37.50.)

Metrics 9

Metrics Working Capital Restructuring Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis can help companies adjust to both the down swings in demand as well as the upswings that are sure to follow. Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. For example , U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. For instance, Home Depot, despite a painful housing market–led recession, retained most of its hourly workers and their benefits in 2008–2009.

EPS 11

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Between 2008 and 2011, the turnover rate of Tupperware's predominately part-time sales people (consultants, as the company calls them) fell by 15%. Although self-organization is a touted attraction of social media, our study shows that the most successful employee communities tend to be actively managed by executives such as Fenne.

Media 18

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. While the restructuring certainly helped GM return to profitability (its annual net income averaged $6.7

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It is up to employers, managers, and HR teams to follow through with employment laws. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 2008 establishes employment laws for employers in the private sector, state and local governments, and other public bodies. What Are Some of the Employment Laws in the U.S.?

Guidelines 52

Guidelines Restructuring Review Follow-up 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

I’m told that at one point the management-through-presentation culture of the company was so extensive that they were actually investigated by 3M for potentially re-selling the huge volumes of acetates used in those days to make slides for overhead projectors!

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008. For a refresher on how PE works, see The Strategic Secret of Private Equity.)

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. If you’re, say, an HR manager who happened to take a job at Chobani early on, your compensation suddenly looks considerably better than many of your peers. ” McAfee and Brynjolfsson report something similar in their 2008 HBR article.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Citing its outcomes performance as a mandate for change, Fraser set about a complete restructuring of the team: pediatric cardiac surgeons and cardiologists started collaborating more closely, dedicated pediatric cardiac surgery operating rooms and ICU space was created, and a systematic outcomes tracking program was put in place.

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

When the government passed a law requiring foreign companies to transfer 60% ownership to local shareholders, IBM's management said, "Not on my watch," and unceremoniously closed shop. Until 1977, IBM — in those days the first-choice mainframe supplier to governments, enterprises, and armies — operated freely in India. The result?

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Restructuring Bottom-up 8