Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2021

SaaS enterprises need to identify a suitable sales model from the start of their operations. It would be cost-ineffective to try and convince people used to lower rates to buy your higher-priced merchandise. You need a sales operation to identify, nurture, and close deals with customers on contracts.

Strategy 91

Strategy Price Self-aware Software 91

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Usually, if you search, there are opportunities in your current job and at your current level to display your ability to drive change, even if you are in a support function like finance or human resources.

Innovation 18

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. So they are more likely to recognize, for example, when a company’s legacy IT system has become a stumbling block to progress – a common affliction in retail operations.

Retail 14

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. For example, Walmart doesn't succeed just because of a strong operations group. Nonetheless, many CEOs and top executives struggle with their functional organizations, and some question whether the established functional model is still relevant.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. ” This Mess.

Case Study 15

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 15