HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The tipping point in all the organizations I work with who are serious about gender balance is when it becomes a leadership and management priority and is part of leaders’ own performance evaluations and accountability. Leaders readily understood the need to learn the language and culture of new markets, from China and India to Brazil.

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Diversity Globalization Presenteeism CEO 52

Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2012

For example, if a company claims it welcomes innovation and risk taking, but then only rewards employees who toe the company line and reinforce the status quo, sooner or later people will simply stop asking questions, innovating, and stretching themselves. Instead, they will conform in order to please their bosses.

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Budgeting Banking Ethics Commitment 285

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 7, 2018

In 2005, however, I noticed a troublesome trend. Some had worked in my own life: better fitness, Covey’s Seven Habits, active vacations and better stress management, to name a few. What might that mean for how you manage? For new products and services for your market? What a privilege! That’s what happened here.

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Bottom-up Health Care Policies Fashion 168

Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Document management software can put important documents at your fingertips in seconds and help you keep everything organized. But which document management solution would work best for your office? Here are three tips to help you understand how document management software can help and which features you’ll need to make it work.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 24, 2021

But it is also something managers and investors should be interested in for purely financial reasons, as it can wipe off enormous amounts of market value in a matter of days,” the researchers explain. Data was collected from news coverage from January 2005 to February 2019 held in the Nexus Uni research database.

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Curious Cat

JUNE 9, 2015

Box with me, Innovation, Quality Engineering, and Statistics. William Woodall shared this wonderful article he wrote with George E. My thoughts on being able to read it online: Thanks Bill, it is a great article. And thanks for having it openly available.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

labor market while still amplifying the deterrent effects of immigration enforcement policies.” ” Workforce management. The paper highlights that, since 2005, some 8 million people have been working in the United States without the proper authorization.

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Influence Policies Travel Proposal 76

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. So BDAI is pretty useful for management to be able to see where we are and where we might be headed. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Is your business struggling to come up with a new idea or innovation to solve the latest industry challenge? If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

After sharing a bit of his background, he quickly delves into his career beginning at ABC, and the lessons he’s learned and the principles that have guided him that help “nurture the good and manage the bad.”. Iger truly embraces innovation. He explains the thinking behind his habit of waking at 4:15 am.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

This term is just what it sounds like: external constraints are market, environmental and/or consumer conditions forced on any company doing business in their space — something from outside the company that it has little or no control over. If customers couldn't get to opticians in urban centers, why not bring them to the customers?

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Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. These major transformations pose significant implications for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, workers, and managers, as well as policymakers for nations and cities across the globe. Jakal Pan/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Can he do it?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 14

Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Jiffle: 2008 "Webware 100" Finalist; Need your vote Book recommendations for Middle Managers… Posted in the Main Page category. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) rajesh301 on Why MANY smart people think they deserve a better position at work?

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Tips Licensing Newsletter Godin 29

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

They manage their businesses (they use tools) In the web 1.0 Overview can be found in this book “ How to Grow When Markets Don’t &# All the best! Posted in the Business Models , Innovation category. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) They search 2. They communicate 3.

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Real Estate Competitive Advantage Slywotzky Licensing 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition. In 2005, McKesson invested in a David called RelayHealth that was in the connectivity business before connectivity was hot.

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Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. Probably way more than Apple’s lawyer bills.

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Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Nurture leaders at all levels. Prepare and Adapt.

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Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. .” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies.

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine.

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Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Hence, the Innovator's Dilemma: whether you innovate or not, you risk downward mobility. But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

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. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

.” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. By 2005, Garanti began to open branches and grow rapidly. Amid the financial crisis in Greece and threats of double-dip recessions, the last thing on the minds of Western companies right now might be recruitment.

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Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. They''re rethinking their economic relationships with the rest.

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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

I first wrote about these contemptible "information" graphics in HBR in 2005, and since then they've only seemed to multiply. See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy — which generate profits that we invest in innovation!" I aim to change that. Who could argue with that?

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Maturity Energy Consultative Construction 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Acquisitions always get a lot of senior management attention and, for those who want it, there is no shortage of outside advice, including a lot in the management literature. Happened in 2005 and was unquestionably the right move. And it's a shame. Here's our take on a few high profile divestitures or would-be divestitures.

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Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

On the other hand, most large sample studies in the accounting literature show something different: firms that manage their earnings perform better than firms that don’t (and not just in the short term). HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance?

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