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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes. Another example: In the U.S., In China, or Brazil, diversity is defined differently.

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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

The IT systems put in place specifically for the London Games must meet the needs of 200,000-plus members of the Olympic Family as well as the broadcasters to those four billion viewers worldwide. But the complexity of the project is not only a function of having to cover so many clients, sites, and systems.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

They are remarkably open to talented people from diverse backgrounds, and are highly skilled at giving future leaders the knowledge and experience they need to lead successfully in the global economy. America's higher education system is a magnet for talented leaders from all over the world.

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Finally, A Majority of Executives Embrace Experimentation

Harvard Business Review

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. For example, a portion of customers could see a website where coupons for purchases were presented on the first page.

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The Cure for the Not-for-Profit Crisis

Harvard Business Review

It is the more versatile, general-purpose charities — including such well-known, diverse institutions as The United Way Worldwide and the Salvation Army — that are faring the worst. But the financial meltdown has not affected all charities and not-for-profits equally.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

It takes tragedies occurring in order for the system to stand back, take focus and fix what is wrong. For example, $125 of the cost of each new personal computer goes to reimburse companies for previous thefts. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002. It’s a whole new world.

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