CEO Cases, Readings & Lessons Learned
Thanks to everyone for preparing both exceptional and strategic cases this quarter. Our cases included:
-Reconfiguring Management Compensation & Incentives
-Superbowl Ads: Are They Worth It?
-Recapitalizing for Liquidity
-Optimizing Retail Inventory Management & Merchandising
-Improving an Organization's Ability to Delivery Quality
-Entering New Markets
-Restructuting the Sales Force
-Planning Now for Long Term Liquidity
-Dealing with a Product Line That Isn't Working
-Financing: options for raising funds- vc, pe, banks, partners
Our Reading Discussions On Operational Excellence centered on:
What Really Works, Nohria, Joyce and Roberson
Growth as a Process: The HBR Interview: Immelt, Steward
Dell Makes the Right Moves, Lappin, Gramercy Capital Mgmt
Lessons Learned:
GE is quite impressive. What Really Works is worth the read. Immelt's formula for choosing leadership and his view of how processes can drive excellence are without a doubt "best practice."
