The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. It is made even more so with the huge diversity in the modern workforce.

Skills 84

Skills Emotional Intelligence Stress Storytelling 84

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Brand 65

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 65

HR Digest

AUGUST 21, 2023

More and more companies are carefully selecting background music to play throughout the working day, with the goal of increasing productivity and making the office a more enjoyable place to be. But now, companies are taking it a step further by curating playlists specifically designed to enhance the work experience.

Productivity 98

Productivity Products IAS Succession 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. You get the point. Pay on time.

Finance 8

Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Companies in the Fortune 500 list employ 27 million people today, compared to 20 million in 1995. Who else is going to meet all those new compliance requirements around diversity, risk mitigation and sustainability? Large organizations, those with more than 5,000 employees, increased their employment share the most—from 29.4%

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

By the time a glass ceiling is in place, it is far too late to change the trajectory or culture of a company. When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping.

Diversity 8

Diversity Attrition Sports CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

” — Bono, singer for U2, 2004 University of Pennsylvania commencement. There are now five generations working alongside each other – an unprecedented opportunity to learn from such a diverse range of experiences. ” or “Who in the company is a role model for wisdom?”

Wiseman 11

Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

This decision — to bet the company on a new and distinct business — was the first such move by Ma, but it would become the cornerstone of Alibaba’s strategy. Today, Alibaba looks more like a conglomerate than a typical tech company, with a diverse set of businesses operating largely independently.

Porter 8

Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Murdock purchased the old mill in 2004 and turned it into what journalist Amanda Wilson describes as "a public–private campus that would host research efforts broadly in his areas of interest." But when it comes to white men, the authors found that they got a bump in performance scores when they were perceived as valuing diversity.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Furthermore, these actions are taken seemingly without regard to the consequences for the community, the employees, the survival of the company as an institution, or the creation of long-term firm value. As a research-driven company, investing in research and the continuity of investing is crucial for Merck's success.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

At age 48, in 2004, I decided to leave my great job as a mutual fund manager to co-found an asset management firm. As our company expands, I occasionally revisit questions such as when I might slow down (not for quite a while!) , how my husband will feel if he works less in a few years and wants me to travel and relax more.

Travel 8

Travel Career CEO Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They want to believe that companies have better things to do with their money than change what appear to be stable and well-functioning systems. CEOs don't want to hear that. Enlist a business ally. The bad news usually isn't one-dimensional; if a technology is out of date, the processes being used by the workforce are probably outdated too.

System 15

System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? Dynamism: A dynamic set of extended ties that evolves as you evolve.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Despite the continuing rarity of women at the very tops of large corporations (which will inexorably shift as the cohort of overwhelmingly male CEOs retires during the next decade) and in finance, a 2004 study by the women's group Catalyst, The Bottom Line: Connecting Corporate Performance and Gender Diversity , concluded that companies with the highest (..)

Bottom-up 13

Bottom-up Metrics Construction Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than a decade ago, countries in Europe began to take measures to increase the gender diversity of their corporate boards. Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. The boards of the largest Danish companies (OMX20) are 21.9% In Europe, Denmark is another outlier. ” In the U.S.,

Diversity 8

Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

When Google introduced a controversial dual-class share structure at the time of its IPO in 2004, I had reservations (as you would expect of someone whose specialty is corporate governance). Similarly, countries as diverse as South Korea, India, and Russia now allow only a one-share, one-vote structure. Take Brazil.

Planning 12

Planning IPO Proposal Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

came home from her job as a diversity consultant at JP Morgan Chase. On this day, though, she had just been asked to describe the "business-case for diversity" for her firm. What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? He was dead serious.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

My former colleague Janet Hyde, a developmental psychologist and an authority on gender differences, reviewed 46 meta-analyses that had been conducted on psychological gender differences from 1984 to 2004. (A

Long-term 13

Long-term Review Morale Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In more and more companies today, leaders manage their communication efforts in a way that calls to mind ordinary, person-to-person conversation. Where this kind of organizational conversation has taken hold, leaders build engagement and drive strategic alignment by enabling ideas and information to move efficiently across their company.

Operations 15

Operations Media Long-term Open-book 15