Aug 30, 2023 The Great Rebalancing Act: Why tech is focused on profitability rather than growth, and why this is good for the industry By Jason Goldsmith Mike Crisanti Lara Nemerov Sol Silbenberg Lexie Perrotta Edward Wilson Smythe +3 more... Show less For more than a decade, tech companies have prioritized growth, focusing investor attention on metrics of "scale" intended to translate...
Sep 25, 2023 Challenging Times Ahead for Brazilian Companies and Investors By Brad Hunter Chris Sanchez Following several years of declining recuperações judiciais filings in Brazil, nearly 600 companies requested court protection in the...
Sep 25, 2023 Tempos desafiadores para empresas e investidores brasileiros By Chris Sanchez Brad Hunter Após anos em queda, o número de pedidos de recuperações judiciais no Brasil pulou para quase 600 empresas no primeiro semestre de 2023,...
Sep 25, 2023 The UAW strike widens: Are you prepared to deal with the liquidity impact? By Al Koch Tony Flanagan Mark Wakefield THE ALIXPARTNERS AUTOMOTIVE BRIEF As you no doubt know by now, the United Auto Workers' unprecedented multi-company strike against the...
Sep 22, 2023 The fourth dimension in Strategic Sourcing: How Sustainability can drive value By Adam Fless Jose Barrera Procurement organizations feel the heat of macro risks—from supply-chain disruptions to labor shortages and natural disasters—but also...
Sep 21, 2023 The natural resource costs of AI: Why we must be responsible using "free" technology By Jimena Mardjetko We all know that AI technology development is accelerating at an incredible pace and disrupting the world as we know it, but reading this...
Sep 20, 2023 When Consumer Products Companies Become Tech Companies By Robert DeNardo John Breuninger Albert Sang James Stevens Bhavik Mistry +2 more... Show less Tech disruption has created an opportunity and a need to innovate or be left behind. You may now find that the thermometer in your...
Sep 20, 2023 Lessons from the factory floor part 2: The music has stopped on salaried churn. Now what? By Parmesh Bhaskaran Steven Hilgendorf Allen Merriman Felix Pflaum Stephen Smith Chandan Singh +3 more... Show less While the challenges around the hourly manufacturing workforce get most of the ink (particularly in light of the UAW strike), salaried...
Sep 20, 2023 Retail Viewpoint: How retailers should prepare for a challenging holiday season By Meghan Hayward Asher von Stein Economic pressures are forcing consumers to make difficult decisions and budget carefully. As fall arrives, retailers preparing for the...
Sep 18, 2023 Don’t miss out: Prioritize selling conversations with your fresh food suppliers By Adam Goodliss Matthew Hamory With traditional grocery’s share of the fresh food dollar on the decline, communication about produce, protein and prepared foods is more...
Sep 15, 2023 Navigating the e-commerce dilemma: Balancing convenience and cost in home delivery operations By Marc Iampieri Chris Considine Felix Pflaum Andrew Talerico Robbie Ehlers +2 more... Show less The convenience of e-commerce and near-instant gratification for shoppers to get same-day or next-day deliveries for their purchases...
Sep 15, 2023 The UAW Strike: How suppliers can deal with the liquidity impact By Al Koch Tony Flanagan Mark Wakefield ALIXPARTNERS AUTOMOTIVE BRIEF The United Auto Workers union has initiated an unprecedented multi-company strike against the Detroit auto...
Sep 14, 2023 Winning in Fiberland: A Strategic Approach to M&A By Joey Cofrancesco Andrej Danis Conor McShane For the past 40 years—at least—the telecom industry has operated in a state of constant change—from the breakup of Bell in the 1980s to...
Sep 14, 2023 Can you Develop a Culture of Compliance? By Clark Perry Robert Coffey Sean Dowd Rich Kando +1 more... Show less The Department of Justice and most global regulators encourage companies to invest in developing a “culture of compliance,” but should...
Sep 14, 2023 How Off-the-Shelf Tech Can Make Factories More Profitable By Abhinav Agrawal Rob Sterner Too often, smaller companies are intimidated by the high costs, complexity, and long installation times that high-end smart factory...
Sep 13, 2023 TSA: Collaborate for a win-win By Steve Aschkenase Dan Angarita How collaboration in developing and executing transition services agreements enables successful carveouts Executing attractive carveouts...
Sep 13, 2023 Shareholder value creation in Japanese pharmaceuticals By Joji Hattori Ben Salcetti Sho Ogawa Tetsuya Kimura +1 more... Show less Many Japanese pharmaceutical companies have been languishing under low growth and profitability amid a ”triple whammy” business...