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Executive Assimilation

Coaching Tip

Further consider that four out of ten newly promoted managers and executives fail within 18 months of starting new jobs, according to research by Manchester, Inc, a leadership development firm in Bala Cynwyd, PA. Also, two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005). Make him/her feel welcome.

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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Development programs are no longer a “nice-to-have” but are critical to empowering the next generation of leaders.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

In their role of stewards of policy compliance, they can tend to be a brake on change. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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How Bold Corporate Climate Change Goals Deteriorate Over Time

Harvard Business Review

In a recently published paper in the Academy of Management Journal , we explore how major business corporations translate the grand challenge of climate change into strategies, policies, and practices over an extended period of time. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business Review

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. To fully enable a new vision of the future, organizations must make changes in five key business areas: Planning and Budgeting If organizations have easy access to—and indeed rely on—external talent, they can tackle new opportunities, experiment more nimbly, and operate in new areas.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. It's practically the law of the land. It was laid down by C.K. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S.