Management & Leadership
mobi |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Vijay Govindarajan

The Challenge: Restoring Box 1 Although URI had little control over the economic forces that afflicted it, a couple of other circumstances added urgency to its plight. Whenever a company ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:Clara Shih

* * * Generally, marketers have much more data to work with these days. With new data comes new metrics, such as viewability. For instance, if an ad loads at ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Joshua Lerner

Uneasy Oversight Venture investors typically have many tools through which they can steer the companies that they fund, from preferred stock with special privileges to board seats to the right ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Danna Greenberg & Kate McKone-Sweet & H. James Wilson

CHAPTER 7 The Financial Challenge: Reconciling Social and Environmental Value with Shareholder Value Richard Bliss IN THE FINANCE COMMUNITY, SHAREHOLDER VALUE HAS LONG BEEN the performance metric of choice for ...
( Category: Small Business & Entrepreneurship December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Boris Groysberg & Michael Slind [Groysberg, Boris]

Developing Content The job of finding, organizing, and packaging company information has long been precisely that—a job, a specialized endeavor undertaken by professionals. Typically working out of a corporate communication ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Aaron Shapiro [Shapiro, Aaron]

• The working engineer who was more of a specialist or an academic. He would want information targeted specifically to the niche in which he worked. • The student who ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Blair Singer [Singer, Blair]

And here’s one of the magical things about a Code of Honor. You let it legislate the behavior, and you let it enforce itself. The code gets to be the ...
( Category: Success December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-07-21 | Author:John Elkington & Jochen Zeitz

Removing Perverse Subsidies Incentives are endemic in all markets, whatever champions of free markets may claim or want, and often date back to earlier eras and reflect previous priorities. Over ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-27 | Author:Bill Jensen [Jensen, Bill]

For More: Click, The Journey Continues, page 150 • Five Dos and Don’ts With a Half-Age Mentor “In the slums of Kenya, eight million people resort to a practice known ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Leonardo INGHILLERI & Micah SOLOMON [INGHILLERI, Leonardo]

Volume Is No Excuse: Let’s Get the Process Started The typical excuse for not trying to recall individuals and their preferences or idiosyncrasies is “volume”: “We serve too many customers ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1990-02-28 | Author:George Stalk [Stalk, George]

TABLE 5-2 Summary of Performance Improvements (5-yr period) Company Product Factory Labor Productivity Net Asset Productivity Product Line Variety Yanmar Diesel engines 1.9⋉ 2.0⋉ 3.7⋉ Hitachi Refrigeration equipment 1.8 1.7 ...
( Category: International December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble [Govindarajan, Vijay]

“I’ve heard enough,” Rambo replied, and he shut down production for the day. Stella witnessed the entire debacle in the yarn-making facility. With production at a halt, she contacted Alejandro. ...
( Category: Business Culture December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-07 | Author:Steven Snyder [Snyder, Steven]

Even though Hogan had recognized this problem early on in his tenure as CEO, the organization had resisted his early efforts to confront these tensions of tradition. “Everything I did ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Douglas R. Conant & Mette Norgaard

Some leaders say, “It's not personal; it's just business.” Don't buy it! What these leaders mean is that they believe that to show strength, you need to be tough-minded and ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Paul Gustavson & Stewart Liff

Use the orientation session to conduct individual skill assessments as well. They will allow management and/or the team to identify strengths and weaknesses of the new employees and determine where ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )