Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Deming referred several times to the need to have a senior statistical leader reporting to the CEO. Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I know of the CEO of a company who takes Fridays off during winter as “personal ski days.&# I can’t see one. 2 Linda C Smith December 17th, 2010 at 3:17 pm This is an interesting article and interesting that this topic would come up with female leaders at Purdue. I’ve noticed that male leaders take time off.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation. Bottom line…don’t be the CEO who causes your management team to continually say “the boss won’t go for that one.&# or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

HP announced Whitman’s appointment on September 22, 2011 but given the public comments, customers seem to think it’s a bad choice. It’s my stance that HP usually leaps before it looks and I am not sure that I am sold on Whitman as the new CEO. HP Has a Poor Track Record in Past CEO Selection. So let’s look.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

As the CEO you have final say, but your employees can provide thoughts that you may have overlooked, which can actually add to your business plans. They will feel like you value their input, and take it into consideration when making decisions.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. Ganguly, CEO of DimDim, suggested that we organized “virtual book readings” over their platform.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. Yet it does not have a single representative on Interbrand’s list of the top 100 global brands. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

But, this old Congressional debate, sparked by critics who want a return to smaller government, obscures the profound global economic issues which the U.S. The Ex-Im Bank was formed in the 1930s to help finance U.S. In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S. must face in the future.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. To me, that highlights the importance of reading, watching, listening and generally paying attention to what’s happening, not only locally, but also globally.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

People can be hired through the sharing economy; technology can be rented by the hour; finance can be sought for any prototype, and assets bought. Nokia launched the OVI Store globally in May 2009. ” By 2011, two-thirds of Xerox’s revenues came from products or services it had introduced within the last two years.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise. I don’t mean to downplay culture, as a diverse corporate culture is something to be strived for, but only if quality is not sacrificed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

2011 will force China Inc. For the first time after China's economic reforms began, CEO succession is threatening to become a major problem, particularly for globally competitive companies such as Haier, Huawei, and Lenovo. Indeed, the choices the founder-CEOs make may well reshape their companies as well as the Chinese economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

And then the CEO of a huge biotech on the other side. Now I'm talking with Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN and author of How , whom I've gotten to know through the WEF. They are grappling with the topics of food, health, finance, commerce, privacy, security, democracy, and war. It's crazy. It continues.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

The company now has more than 20 million investors in 170 companies and, as of the end of last year, manages more than $3 trillion in global assets. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. GE is another firm that has committed its size and deep pockets to innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP followed Jim, or at least attempted to…While Bill has a successful track record in business going all the way back to his years as an entrepreneurial teenager, his presentation was horrid (sorry Bill). Up next was Calos Brito, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. Double your ratio of questions to statements.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

So says Michael Cavanagh — who has been cleaning up the trading mess for JPM CEO Jamie Dimon — on the company's quarterly earnings call. million in 2011, including $7.5 Second, which of the numerous compensation recovery policies were used to pull back the 2010 and 2011 remuneration? Drew earned $15.5

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

Two, working globally stretches human abilities to adapt to different cultures and different situations. Global economics can determine survivability of neighborhood businesses. professing leadership acumen and expertise that it can be tough to distinguish between the posers and the players. One, our economic conditions are very tough.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." What is so special about where a global organization headquarters itself? Well, obviously it can affect a business's tax bill.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store. That''s OK, says Someecards CEO Duncan Mitchell.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Global, virtual teams are on the rise. For instance, 82 percent of the companies on Fortune's 2011 100 Best Companies to Work For list offer telecommuting options. In addition to the options multiplying for when and where we work, what kind of work we do and how we do it are changing too. Work is less repetitive and more collaborative.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. After I personally asked CEOs to join me in accelerating job creation at their own companies , Starbucks asked itself how it might further use the company's scale for good. This program, Create Jobs for USA , will begin November 1, 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

His friend, Dr. Shiping Liu, founder and CEO of Global Business Intelligence Consulting Co., Daniela Saltzman is an MBA student at HBS, class of 2011. This is a clear demonstration that a focus on sustainability is as good for shareholders as it is for other stakeholders and companies are paying attention to this." Stay tuned.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

is the Editior-In-Chief, CEO and President of the Huffington Post, one of the most influential and popular online news outlets, recently acquired. She was also voted the #1 most influential person in 2011 Silicon Alley 100 this year. is a Harvard graduate that started LearnVest, an online personal-finance resource for young women.

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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. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

” After talking with her husband, she decided to quit in July 2011. “We were lucky that my husband had a good job and we’d been smart about our finances. Now, I’m CEO but I’m also the IT person, the finance manager, and the office manager.” I had an assistant, IT support.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In today’s global economy, one size fits all leadership styles are simply disasters in the making…It’s essential to understand that what works in China will be different than what works in Ireland.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

When I ran the Talent Management division of a large global consulting firm after I left GE, I realized that these consultants were working from concepts that were academic vs. real life. While there are many reasons for this, there is no arguing the fact that the average tenure for CEOs has been plummeting for the last decade.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bravo Nando… Jack Welch - The former Chairman and CEO of GE reminded us of the value of candor. Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation. Nando’s presentation simply put things into perspective for a world sorely lacking perspective.

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