Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

The Families and Work Institute’s 2014 National Study of Employers finds that, compared to six years ago when it conducted the same survey, several numbers have moved in the right direction: Employers have continued to increase their provision of options that allow at least some employees to better manage the times and places in which they work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Potential for growth is also critical, as I emphasized in this June 2014 HBR article. Hiring Human resources Managing people Managing yourself' Interestingly, however, the hallmarks of potential — the right motivation, curiosity, insight, engagement, and determination — are also heavily based on emotional intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. They are not employees; they are contingent workers who are nonetheless vital to an organization’s R&D, marketing, and other key processes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

trillion in 2014 alone. For businesses, these open platforms create efficient global markets with a huge base of potential customers and built-in ways to reach them. By creating virtual teams that collaborate remotely, companies can expand into new markets without losing agility.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The first approach requires the creation of an internal consultancy to the business units, asking them to identify needs or opportunities that your team should work on, and agreeing that at a certain point, you’ll hand over projects to them once they’re ready to move past the testing phase.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Japan’s Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry published The Ito Review in 2014 which points to integrated reporting as a way to combat “short-termism.” Managers may soon be held much more accountable for demonstrating that they make rigorous decisions about human capital and organizational capability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Most people assume that the best hiring strategy is to find the best performers in a given field and get them on your team. Team-specific human capital is important too: when people move together, they tend to do better than when they do it alone. Hiring Human resources Managing people' An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

New products are, of course, the province of R&D teams or research partners. Sandy Ogg, an operating partner in Blackstone’s Private Equity Group, had previously served as a senior vice president for leadership and learning at Motorola and chief human resource officer at Unilever. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

In 2014, Michael Callahan, then head of customer experience at Hulu, had a mystery on his hands. Measuring Marketing Insights. At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Silver Star, the second-largest soccer ball production firm in town, with over 2,000 employees, learned about the die almost immediately, and by March 2014 was using it for all of its pentagon cutting. One large firm adopted the die early on, even though it was not in the initial group of recipients. What is unusual about this company?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. Their evolving brands, Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks continue to be strong contributors to 2014’s revenue of $4.5

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. ” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The interdisciplinary team was led by Principal Investigator Joan C. In intervention stores, store managers who chose to participate committed to trying out the two changes above, plus five additional changes: Giving a core team of associates a “soft guarantee” or 20 or more hours a week. per year between 1987 and 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

Get your entire team involved. Watkins recommends enlisting your team in getting their new teammate up to speed and sharing “collective responsibility” for his success. “Ask your existing employees how long it took before they felt they were part of the team. Have Emily’s efforts helped?

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