N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Let me use an example which contrasts a politician (often successful and rarely significant) with a statesman (usually both)…it has been said that a politician is concerned with winning the election and a statesman is concerned about future generations. Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For instance, during the pandemic Audible piloted our Returnship program to hire professionals returning to the workforce after a care-giving career break. Can you give a specific example? This work formed the foundation for my career in HR and many of the lessons learned continue to inform my thinking today.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For instance, during the pandemic Audible piloted our Returnship program to hire professionals returning to the workforce after a care-giving career break. Can you give a specific example? This work formed the foundation for my career in HR and many of the lessons learned continue to inform my thinking today.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Because one of us (Malin) grew up in Sweden, considered to be one of the most gender-equal countries , with f amily-friendly policies that emphasize both parents’ responsibility of raising a family, we wondered whether gender equality in the finance industry in Sweden had progressed further than it had in the U.S. and 33% from Sweden.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

are making a choice that will shape the rest of their lives: which career to pursue after graduation. Yet these career choices affect not only the students themselves but also the rest of society. Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market. This fall, college seniors across the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. I mentioned an example of this in a comment on a recent Ron Edmondson post dealing with Leading People Older Than You. The concepts of "serve and care" pack more deposits into the bank of trust and credibility than anything else.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

For example, talented people are often excluded from leadership positions if they belong to the group that faces discrimination. What are the costs of this, beyond stifling or ending the careers of thousands of people? And how much do entire economies suffer when governments enact discriminatory policies against certain groups?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. And it shrinks the gap between cash going out and coming in for the company since you’re often not paying out the money until the additional revenue is banked. HBR Staff/Phatharapol Nopharat/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift. It reinforced all the people-centric policies of the company. Charlie Cawley, legendary leader of MBNA (the credit card giant) is an excellent example. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

However, the utilization rates for these policies were low, and they were often seen as incompatible with professional norms of success. Armed with this data, SSoM is now moving forward with a comprehensive program to integrate flexibility policies as a core element of the faculty advancement process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. The counseling is just one aspect of a broad commitment to embed gender considerations in all of KWFT's HR policies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

An effective policy strategy for small businesses needs to focus on the unique needs these companies have. The Playbook is a policy menu, based around three core needs of small businesses: access to capital; people and skills; and innovation ecosystems. But these things are not enough. Three things small businesses need.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

For example, McDonald’s has an online FAQ about how the company’s food products are made, while Southwest’s Transfarency initiative aims to give customers a clearer picture of the total fare they will pay, with no unexpected fees. Juj Winn/Getty Images. Forward-looking attributes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Let’s start with the pioneering companies now offering generous paid parental leave to new dads — firms such as Yahoo (8 weeks), PwC (12-14 weeks), and Bank of America (12 weeks). Over a hundred Major League Baseball players make use of MLB’s paternity leave policy, which was instituted in 2011.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. Let’s consider a few examples. Benham is a renowned, albeit somewhat inaccessible, figure in the British gambling world.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Respondents were also asked about their education and careers, including whether they’d ever taken virtual courses through an online university, whether they use social media or online job postings to access employment opportunities, and whether they use instant messaging or webcams to collaborate at work. For example, the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Here a few notable examples. Economist Ronald Coase proposed auctioning off segments of the electromagnetic spectrum in late 1950s, a policy idea that was later adopted in the 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, a divisional controller may report directly to the CFO and on a dotted line to the VP of the division; which ensures that the controller knows what the "internal customer" (the VP) needs as well as what the direct boss (the CFO) wants. Can you give me an example?" Career planning Managing up Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Take, for example, the hiring process. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. For example, is an MBA from a top business school really necessary to be successful in this position?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

— for example the study of the ethnic composition of boards in corporate America by Richie Zweigenhaft — studies of immigrant leadership talent are still scarce. universities before they launched their careers. Consumer Products and Banking and Finance are two other major concentration industries. Where do they work?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

There''s nothing new about comparing global policies pertaining to working parents, particularly when it comes to working mothers. And you can have a successful career even after you decline a promotion or other type of advancement. BONUS BITS: What''s in the Piggy Bank. There''s the Rub. —Andy O''Connell.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Think about this example…in most corporations there exists a hierarchy of sales that comes with a very established and entrenched pecking order. When my bank can't do the thing the client needs i find them someone who can. So, my first suggestion is that you change nomenclature. I send people to a competitor?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As co-CEO of the design and architectural firm Gensler , I’ve spent my career designing workplaces and studying the link between design and business performance. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example. Facebook is a prime example. It matters more than you may realize. Choice is not a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Here are some examples of the misleading and misrepresenting things one sees and hears in the Information Age: ‘Achieve Perfection.’ ’ What they’re really selling: Computer software. ’ What they’re really selling: Banking. Banks buy money wholesale and sell it to borrowers at retail rates.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Researchers have confronted us in recent years with example after example of how we humans get things wrong when it comes to making decisions. Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has spent his career focusing on the ways in which we get things right , or could at least learn to. Most banks don’t like this idea, for obvious reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Heres an example of a "why" reflection item: "Are we really just here to sell more sugar water? For example, if youre just here to sell sugar-water, then "innovating" slightly new flavors of soda every few months, and finding novel markets to "sell" it in (read: competencies in product innovation and mass marketing) is probably good enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. For example, Shiller was saying that since 1996.’”]. The man was in the mood for a monologue, which I have organized by topic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Both Singapore and Israel have liberal immigration policies for skilled workers. But doing something as uncertain as starting a business when you could go to work for a big bank or, even better, the government, was countercultural for the best and brightest a decade ago. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

This client was a prime example of a leading CEO who served his community, profession and firm well. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. The same analogies apply to personal lives, careers and Body of Work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

According to a 2007 survey conducted by Robert Half International , nearly three-quarters (73%) of Gen Y professionals are worried about balancing a career with personal obligations. What's more, driving these traditional attitudes was a belief that career demands will limit their options for spending time with family in ten years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The rethink took place in the context of a lot of skepticism (at best) about the banking system, the banking business model, and its contribution to American well-being. There also, however, is strong evidence that it is a bad idea to let big banks fail in the midst of a crisis.

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