Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Collaborate with colleagues within department and represent department across entire organization. And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance.

COO 14

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met him again two months ago: six years later he had scaled up by a factor of ten — all the result of organic growth — and employs over 6000 people. So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

To drive shareholder value and be a catalyst for economic recovery, our nation's largest companies must deploy their assets in a productive manner, either internally for innovation and organic growth, or externally for corporate venture capital investments, research partnerships, joint ventures and alliances, or acquisitions.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

This is a relatively new client, but I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt his positivity sets the tone for the entire organization and has produced incredible results. In all of these cases, the ripple (or explosive) effects were brutal for their organizations. link] Geoff Webb Great post, Mike; thanks. https://www.managers.org.uk/practical-support/management-community/blogs/why-are-ceos-rarely-fired

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. Innovation in Cities. These financial products create a risk-bearing financial arrangement between public, private, and nonprofit organizations.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

But smart leaders and organizations go broader. A real-estate search engine might actually “sell” wise decision making, through the process of making the largest transaction their customers will ever make. The starting point of most competitive analysis is a question: Who is your competition?

Levitt 15

Levitt Real Estate PR Video 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Nonetheless, many CEOs and top executives struggle with their functional organizations, and some question whether the established functional model is still relevant. They therefore have little incentive to overcome these hurdles.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. But that’s just not true. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8