Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

It a powerful tool for identifying innovations, especially with the opportunities for data gathering afforded by smart technologies and social media. It used the resulting knowledge to develop new service offerings, including remote monitoring, a customer-specific intranet, and a school for forklift drivers.

Marketing 15

Marketing Restructuring Brand Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. Furthermore, these actions are taken seemingly without regard to the consequences for the community, the employees, the survival of the company as an institution, or the creation of long-term firm value. Yes, those actions would have boosted short-term earnings. I disagree.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course). How Phase 3 Is Changing PE Companies.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Each one apparently accompanied by a breathless press release describing how it represents genuine innovation, not to mention fabulous design. But this as the face of modern day innovation?". Restructure, reorganize, slash and burn. And yes, some of the products will probably even be a welcome addition to our gadget-laden homes.

Press Release 15

Press Release Short-term Globalization Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. While delivering millions of dollars in profits, these projects have helped develop a cadre of leaders who can inspire teams to achieve big goals.

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things. Our survival depended upon it.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Fortunately, American companies have part of the solution for the skills gap right at hand — if they reverse the long-term trend of paring back training. While employees take the responsibility to develop their own skills, they're not getting good guidance from employers about exactly which skills would be most beneficial.

Skills 15

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. Rich countries could simply reject the agenda, or they could co-opt a few key developing countries into the existing system.

Globalization 13

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Lastly, this group may be more attuned to individual interests (including performance metrics and compensation incentives) rather than the collective and longer-term needs of the firm. In short, today’s existing leadership structure, expertise and purpose are designed to address today’s challenges — not tomorrow’s.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

This may seem like heresy—even the analysts who are bearish on Tesla in the short-run are bullish on its long-term potential. That’s why the most successful innovators usually do the reverse. Companies that start at the bottom of the market develop overhead structures that are profitable at low unit prices.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Besides the short-term costs of such a move, history shows us that Greece has never managed to benefit from currency devaluations. This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. And what about that price?

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In this context, their efforts to improve care have focused largely on raising the volume of the discrete services they provide, with “efficiency” gauged in terms of “throughput.”. Such joint ventures often fall short of true partnership, and prove fruitless. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 9

Health Care How To Cost System 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N. What went wrong?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy' So we are left with a quandary.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Aggressive-growth and family-controlled dual-class companies display higher long-term shareholder returns. This structure allows a dual-class structure for a defined period early in a company’s life to allow founders to pursue risky and bold initiatives without subjecting themselves to the pressures from short-term investors.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Manufacturers are frustrated by the need for large, complex, and lengthy clinical-development programs that often hinge on meeting a single endpoint in one pivotal clinical trial. I would argue that some of the attempts to streamline the current review process are only minor modifications and fall short of what is needed.

Process 8

Process Licensing Health Care Workshop 8