Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness. When the U.S.

Globalization 18

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. In one manufacturing company, a task force learned that leaders tended to hire and promote people, mainly men, whose backgrounds and careers resembled their own. It would be easier, I was told.

Education 12

Education P&L Constraint Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

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 9

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations. In my first book, I profiled Joanne Chang , who started her career as a management consultant and ultimately became a prominent restaurateur. Learning.

P&L 9

P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Every manager has a P&L that he or she is responsible for," he says, "and while we don''t make sharing rooms a hard and fast rule, it''s our sense that when people have their own budgets and ownership for their profits, they''ll continue to operate that way.". It Can Be Good for Business.

Hotels 12

Hotels Conference Travel Policies 12

Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

Getting more women on boards begins with getting more women in mission-critical P&L roles. “If you look on boards, one of the primary reasons we are not seeing more women joining them is that typically they are looking for candidates who either have board experience or are leading large operations. . ” Ilene H.

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P&L Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Mentor 256

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

One CEO told me she was considering firing her CFO because he consistently ran his monthly financial report by the Operations VP before showing it to her and, as she realized, was letting the Operations VP unduly influence when revenues and expenses were recognized. Insiders tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty.

How To 8

How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep.

CEO 52

CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Many of the successful managers and professionals who come back to business school at mid-career are looking for more than honing their leadership skills. Many are stuck in their careers. Most of the “Harrises” I meet have great and large operational networks consisting of mostly internal contacts. Get visibility externally.

Career 11

Career P&L How To Mentor 11

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. In other words, this behaviour correlates more to our age and what stage we are in our careers than it does to which generation we belong to. (3),

P&L 264

P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 264

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Another well-known problem is that if you are a P&L leader in a publicly traded firm, you pay dearly for missing quarterly targets and don’t get dinged at all for failing to invest in the future. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 370