HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

EY has a consistently received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) since 2005, demonstrating a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The data also helps EY manage its workforce to meet current and future market demands.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. In contrast, other leaders focus so much on long-term strategies that they miss the opportunity to create competitive advantage by pulling the future forward.

Innovation 161

Innovation Strategy Competitive Advantage Incubator 161

HR Digest

AUGUST 9, 2020

Brett White is not just the CEO of the firm but also its chairman as well as a commercial real estate veteran who led CBRE from 2005 to 2012. There are long term economic changes presented in by the coronavirus pandemic and their implications remain uncertain as of now.

Real Estate 98

Real Estate Constraint CEO Long-term 98

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

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. Retain a firm handle on your overheads. Engage your customers and build trust.

Project 50

Project Idea Generation Brainstorming Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And, so, before too long, the taxi you’re about to hail in Phoenix, shows up; Poof! As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. No driver necessary.

CEO 66

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 17, 2013

Kona has a long-standing passio n for Haiti and has lived there for the past 3 years. In the following decades, Haitians successfully fended off foreign invasions while simultaneously succumbing to a long cycle of internal upheavals. In 2005, only 343 were registered with the government ( Schuller ). We must be realistic.

Long-term 174

Long-term Goal Learning-by-Doing Review 174

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 7, 2020

The 350km High Speed 2 project from London to the north-west of England has been beset with problems and cost over-runs since it was officially kicked off in 2017 to the extent that various public figures suggest that losses should be cut and the project kicked into the long grass. Mobile talent.

Training 52

Training Travel Diversity Human Capital 52

Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

– Martha Beck Not long ago, my career had been dedicated to sales, mentoring, coaching and leading an exceptional sales force. However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

Press Release 100

Press Release PR Exit Strategy Discount 100

Curious Cat

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Some excerpts from the interview: I have maintained a portfolio that I call the sleep well portfolio for 10 years (started April 2005). The largest holding there is Apple, followed by Google; I also still really like Google as a long term investment. First, the aging population should provide a booming market.

Health Care 40

Health Care Long-term Rate of Return Banking 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

China's luxury market — and the global phenomenon of " trading up " — are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth. In 2005, fewer than 50 million credit cards were issued.

Marketing 9

Marketing Apparel Short-term Brand 9

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 27, 2008

I will be posting answers (which will be Quoughts) one by one.This one is from Dave Taylor Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980, has written twenty business and technical books, launched four startups, and is widely considered a leader in the social marketing and blogging universe.

Taylorism 28

Taylorism Taylor Licensing Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. 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. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. In some cases, insurers have actually agreed to increase what they’ll pay so long as other insurers are forced to pay even more. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Crisis 63

Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance?

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Just as the courageous, skillful sea captain of long ago took up a compass, charted a course, and led others across the unknown, so must today’s captains of business and industry. 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.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Donald Hambrick, a guru on CEOs and top teams, argues that long-tenured CEOs tend to grow “stale in the saddle”, ceasing to make adaptive changes. I say we should have term limits for CEOs as we do in academia, where Deans typically serve for a maximum of five years. So it’s consistent with market forces.

CEO 13

CEO Long-term Welch Pharmaceuticals 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In terms of speed of adoption, only Apple's iPad has rivaled the Kinect. Aside from some tough comments on my blog, the long-term repercussions were low. The product's performance didn't live up to early press releases and has struggled in the market. Life is tougher for the strategist. The projector. The freeze framer.

Press Release 12

Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, Iger reportedly noticed that Pixar’s hugely popular Toy Story characters appeared in the 2005 opening parade at Hong Kong Disneyland while recent Disney animated characters—for example, Lilo & Stitch , released in 2002—were MIA (although Mickey and pals were present and accounted for, of course).

Creativity 8

Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Amara’s law teaches us that we tend to overestimate the amount of change in the short term but under-estimate it in the long term. newspaper industry.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

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. Dell''s fortunes have not reversed over the past six years, owing in part to the recession, but more fundamentally to the decline of the PC market. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Then they rushed back to their headquarters in Times Square and made some of the worst snap decisions in the history of financial markets. But because today’s bankers succumb to short-term bias, they care less about their longer-term reputations.

Banking 8

Banking Reputation Long-term Short-term 8

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. Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

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. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. Growth market leaders learn from major markets, and equally important, vice versa.".

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. This battle about corporate purpose parallels the bigger societal battle that Fukuyama is writing about.

Consultative 14

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. We all want to start a disruptive company or invest in disruptive ventures, but in reality an innovation that takes place at the low-end of the market or where there is no market (yet) is just not that sexy. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next.

Disruptive Innovation 16

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

And because they tend to do this in haste and under duress, these divestitures are often driven too much by financial exigencies and emergencies, leading to a fire sale that can end up weakening the company over the long term. Happened in 2005 and was unquestionably the right move. IBM-Lenovo. GE-NBC/Universal. Pfizer Inc.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

percent in 1983 — college placement directors were saying it was the worst job market for college graduates since World War II. Unfortunately, X'ers' home purchases came at the top of the housing market after prices had been driven up by the large bulge of home-buying Boomers that preceded you. Unemployment hit 10.3

Education 16

Education Price Crisis Short-term 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Large, well-established companies in need of long-term growth often turn to M&A. In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth.

Film 8

Film Merchandising Creativity Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

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. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it.

Christensen 14

Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

This was the era of the company man, where employees exchanged long-term loyalty for a livable wage and a pension plan. Outside funds bring with them a pressure to achieve short-term results that trade-off with value creation. Their owners often think in generational terms – in decades rather than quarters or years.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Reputation Incentives 8