Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I sure that most of us are aware of the current studies that prove that having a diverse board (at least 30% women representation) contributes directly to a company’s performance. In fact, companies with more female representation, outperform companies don’t have women.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

asked senior executives at 60 big companies recently why they are trying to advance women, "they laughed at us," says Dominic Barton, McKinsey's global managing director. Many diversity programs offer only mentoring or networking among women who all face the same tough odds. When McKinsey & Co. This has bred cynicism.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

StrategyDriven Newsletter Signup StrategyDriven (Kindle Edition) StrategyDriven RSS Feed StrategyDriven Podcast iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective iTunes Feed StrategyDriven on Facebook StrategyDriven on Twitter StrategyDriven LinkedIn Users Group Recent Articles Worn out at Work?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2011

In today’s dynamic, global business environment, HR can no longer focus exclusively on administrative tasks. StrategyDriven has partnered with TradePub.com to offer you complimentary one-year subscriptions and/or free trials to dozens of leading business publications.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

 Equally diverse are the faculty members who weigh in on these issues, which has included CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, leaders of small non-profits, entrepreneurial junkies, the occasional student, and everything in between. The frequency of lessons is also a great feature of this resource.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

In today’s dynamic, global business environment, HR can no longer focus exclusively on administrative tasks. StrategyDriven has partnered with TradePub.com to offer you complimentary one-year subscriptions and/or free trials to dozens of leading business publications.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Special Edition 51 – An Interview with Priscilla Nelson and Ed Cohen, co-authors of Riding the Tiger examines what it takes to lead a thriving global organization through an Enron-like catastrophic event. She has received international acclaim for her work in global leadership development, diversity and executive coaching.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. Nayak is describing a set of competencies that employees must master if they are to become leaders on the global stage.

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Globalization Emotional Intelligence Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. With opportunities abound, employees are “volunteers” who have global choices. First, let us look at these shifts.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

More recently, Randy used the same ‘ secret sauce ’ to transform and improve earnings as CEO of Philips Medical Systems, North America, and USIS, a leading global security services provider, where he led 7,000 knowledge workers to a new understanding of how to work together to achieve business results.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. 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. Cambridge, U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

For the last five years, Bayer has been quietly transitioning from being an international company to a truly global one. “You are not a global company because you do business in 120 countries. You are a global company if you understand countries and customers so well that you are able to do business optimally everywhere.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries. By tuning in to customer needs, a company is able to define the market in ways they could not have identified had they only looked inward.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. The Powerful Role of Trust. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Companies that demonstrate strategic coherence — think Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola — earn a market premium in terms of higher earnings and greater shareholder value. The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". There's no doubt about it; numbers don't lie.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

She has over twenty years of experience working with global companies and thought leaders and has influenced the perception of some of the world’s most valuable brands and many of humanity’s common causes. Nancy’s firm has worked with the top brands and thought leaders in the world helping them develop their presentations.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

And some additional thoughts… Regardless of gender, I believe strongly that the 11 blogs nominated are both outstanding and contribute signifiantly and meaningfully to the global conversation about leadership. I’ll be watching to see if this canary in the mine gets published! Are they they only ones for whom that can be said?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point. Cause-Marketing: Cause-marketing programs will multiply. Marketing experts agree.

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. According to a recent survey, 76% of senior executives reported that their organizations needed to develop global leadership capabilities , but a mere 7% felt they were doing so effectively. Some 30% of U.S.

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Globalization Diversity Survey CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The job of the senior executive is much more complicated today than it was a decade or two ago — and that trend will continue, especially if you hope to play on a global stage (which is a nearly universal condition these days for many companies). Companies are increasingly global. Here are five reasons.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Many companies have embraced gender diversity initiatives, women's mentoring networks, and leadership development programs with great enthusiasm. The European Business Schools/Women on Boards initiative was launched in September of 2011 as a centerpiece of EC Vice President Reding's efforts to increase gender diversity on boards of directors.

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Diversity Mentor System Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. In 2010 and 2011, almost 50% of the applicants to Echoing Green relied on hybrid models, versus 37% in 2006.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

First it extended relocation support to spouses, offering such services as guidance in navigating, and entrée into networks in, the local job market. The success of the Dual Career Network is reflected in its growth from enabling 350 spouses to find suitable positions in seven companies in 2011 to about 700 working in more than 30 in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

First, we were struck by the diversity of the contributions. They represent multibillion-dollar global companies, government agencies, software companies, cement makers, eyeglass manufacturers, retailers, insurance providers, and tomato processors. That diversity is matched only by the deep humanity of the entries. Free to Fork.

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Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Why are these global brands using different marketing strategies in the U.S. the luxury sales market in greater China is expected to grow by 6-8% this year, to exceed $35B — making it second only to America. In 2011, some consumers discovered a problem with a Siemens refrigerator, and started to complain to the company.

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Price Brand Globalization Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Recently, for instance, DuPont India's entire Indian leadership completed an immersion program in hinterland India with guidance from MART , a rural marketing consultancy. We will be writing more about these pioneers in our blog posts throughout 2011.

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Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Speaking of herds, while sacred cows can hold companies back if there is no courage to challenge orthodoxy, cows proved to be a better set of celebrity endorsers than Tiger Woods for Stonyfield Farms and their yogurt marketing. Thus, the leadership ranks must be globally diverse. It also takes dedication.

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Gordon Crisis CEO Entrepreneur 15

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global. Mark Dollins is president of North Star Communications Consulting , bringing three decades of diverse leadership experience to develop communications and marketing talent for his clients. . – Harvard Business Review Analytics Services. IBM 2012 CEO study.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

in emerging markets, and just 5.6% That’s despite the fact that there has been so much discussion about the need for boardroom diversity and more diversity in the C-suites, particularly for women to fill more of these positions. ” Grace Lieblein, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, General Motors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Over the last three years I have consistently stated my belief that Asia was emerging as a global innovation powerhouse. In late 2011, I even wrote , "The overarching trend I continue to see is a shift in the world's innovation energy to the east.". Its people, cultures, heritages, religions, and customs are breathtakingly diverse.

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