Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

” A highly cited 2015 report on diversity in Silicon Valley by an Asian professional organization found that at five big tech firms (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo), Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels.

Positioning 8

Positioning Leadership Diversity Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

As Della Mae Justice, a successful lawyer who was raised in poverty, explained to the New York Times in 2005 , “My stomach’s always in knots getting ready to go to a party, wondering if I’m wearing the right thing, if I’ll know what to do.” The reality, however, is often quite different.

Class 13

Class Influence Diversity Education 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if category expansion is critical to value creation in a particular strategy, plans should focus disproportionally on how to achieve this. Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. A famous example is Hoover’s free flights promotion.

Execution 9

Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. For example, I have taken 8,000 HR software applications (largely focused on the HR needs of individual IBM country units) down to under 1,000.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

BP provides a devastating example of what can happen when this isn’t the case. It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. When one million bottles of St.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The result of poor culture fit due to turnover can cost an organization between 50-60% of the person’s annual salary, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). There has been a lot of talk recently about how looking for culture fit can lead to discrimination against candidates and a lack of diversity.

Diversity 8

Diversity Human Resources Environment Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. But that remains to be seen. The alternative looks enticing.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Organization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

A 2005 Gallup poll found that 21% of Americans believed men were better than women in terms of their math and science abilities (though 68% believed men and women were about the same). For example, in one study , professors rated the identical applications of fictional male or female students.

Long-term 12

Long-term Review Morale Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In our research on the telecom industry, for example, we found that the great majority of the executives we surveyed preferred internal development to external sourcing when they needed to develop differentiated products and services. To succeed, therefore, managers have to learn when and how to abandon the strategies they have grown up with.

Strategy 13

Strategy First-mover Advantage Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Yet, according to the Medical Group Management Association, hospitals’ multi-specialty physician groups lost almost $196,000 per employed physician. Thanks to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, specialties such as cardiology, orthopedics, and medical oncology that relied on the revenue that imaging generated were hit hard.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

Among the 3,000 Asian men and women surveyed by the CWLP, 25% feel they face bias in the workplace; a 2005 Gallup survey put the figure at an even higher 31%. There's a pervasive feeling of being "a square peg in a round hole," as one manager puts it, with 48% reporting that conforming to prevailing leadership models is a problem.

Human Capital 10

Human Capital Survey Globalization Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For example, suppose you want to compare the U.S. Let’s look at the healthcare industry as an excellent example of how benchmarking can be impactful, especially with the increased focus on improving health outcomes while simultaneously lowering costs. Managing Yourself Book. against other nations. Further Reading.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Comparison Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management destroy value at J.C. And what about private-equity partners and sovereign-wealth managers who come on boards of large publicly-traded firms—not as activists but in the wake of taking a stake? Still rivals, yes, but nonetheless a working group that can partner with management to drive value.

Hedge 8

Hedge Sharpe Short-term Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Our first, in 2005, aimed to transform the way Xerox's HR staff connected with its workforce and align Xerox employees with new business goals. The CHRO, Lisa Buckingham, connected with the leaders of Diversity and Inclusion, Corporate Responsibility, and Recruitment in order to weave the employer brand into HR communications enterprise-wide.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Benchmarking Marketing Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

For over two years, I’ve been doing qualitative research on Uber and Lyft drivers, first examining how Uber uses automated mechanisms to manage drivers with my coauthor Luke Stark. For example, one driver I interviewed, Nathan*, is in his late 60s and works as a licensed psychotherapist in Los Angeles. In the U.S.,

Motivation 8

Motivation Survey Incentives Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Most workplaces face constant imperatives for change—from trivial-seeming matters such as installing new office printers to major ones such as implementing new policies to support diversity. Consider Brian Welle, a Google manager who needed to roll out a huge initiative to tackle the problem of unconscious bias in the workplace.

Hovland 8

Hovland Sherif Company Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

TMETC, which was established in 2005, got a big talent boost when Tata Motors acquired Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. in close partnership with the University of Warwick.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. British law created the Community Interest Company in 2005, and a number of U.S. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example. treating suppliers as partners).

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11