Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 16

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.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

If you mange organizational structure, technology, and expectations with conscious attention to the sharing of knowledge, a knowledge sharing environment will emerge easily. 5) Operational Transparency -. Additionally, the further you press the urgency of sharing knowledge, the more likely that a feedback loop will result.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

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CIO Committee Technology P&L 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

P&G didn’t go into its early connected device initiatives with a “let’s try this out and see what it gets us” mindset. And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins. Information & technology Internet'

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Discounted Cash Flow P&L NPV EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

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 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

In a departure from GE’s traditional control systems, the Center was not set up as its own business unit with its own P&L, but rather was funded by a $1 billion investment by Jeff Immelt and became part of GE Global Research. It also required us to amend our compensation practices to be competitive in the technology space.”

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

After all, hackers have P&L sheets too. Detecting and removing these kinds of malware helps maintain the integrity of advertising on Facebook, a business-critical operation. By doing this, your team becomes a trusted partner for company leaders in protecting and driving business-critical operations.

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Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Students ran operations. Rafael Aguayo, Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. Deming, The New Economics, see reference 2, p.

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Quality P&L Deming Education 51

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. employees (47%) experiencing it.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). China, China, and China. business continuity").

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

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. “Generational differences in work-related attitudes: A meta-analysis”, Journal of Business and Psychology, 27(4), p. 3) Finegold D., Mohrman S. &

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 264

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In order to allocate funds for innovation initiatives, Atrius Health’s leaders created a new department with its own P&L. Prototyping care models requires quick access to care locations, medical supplies, IT systems, new medical devices and technology, patients, and time with different providers. Protect the work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

It was by no means a hiccup-free year on sustainability issues for Walmart, with deep concerns about corruption in its Mexican operations. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. But the subtle change in buyer incentives is a big deal. This is the focus of my next project.).

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

It could well be that a charismatic candidate who appealed to minorities, made better use of campaign technology, and embraced some modest policy changes (mainly on immigration and gay marriage) could sweep Republicans back into the White House. Lafley and Roger L.

Brand 10

Brand Products Productivity P&L 10