Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

By working 70-80 hours a week, taking business courses at night, and doggedly pursuing a jump to the professional track, I finally got a break, and moved into investment banking. It's a similar story when you contemplate disrupting yourself mid-career. Time to disrupt myself. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next.

Disruptive Innovation 16

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Frank Sonnenberg Online

AUGUST 17, 2021

Other people are career-minded ; they have big plans and are committed to achieving their dreams. But if employers primarily use money, instead of challenging and meaningful work, to incentivize a career-minded individual, their efforts may fall flat. For the employer: The free market has an invisible hand.

Short-term 138

Short-term Long-term Ethics Motivation 138

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. We can’t always match market salaries, but we need exceptional (read: expensive) talent in order to build from scratch. A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

Strategy 9

Strategy Incentives Policies Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

ANZ Bank offers an example: a decade ago, the bank embarked on an effort described as a "unique plan of eschewing traditional growth strategies and recasting the culture of the bank to lift efficiency and earnings." Step 1: Establish a common understanding of culture and metrics for it.

Banking 15

Banking Competitive Advantage Incentives Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens? That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. Banks emphasizing products, meanwhile, have turned to partnerships.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

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. Their key performance metric became “expected goals” for and against a team, based on the quality and quantity of chances created during a match.

Uncertainty 309

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

universities before they launched their careers. Consumer Products and Banking and Finance are two other major concentration industries. But given the disadvantage immigrants and ethnic minorities still face in the labor market, we expect ethnic and immigrant leaders to be high performers. and enrolled in U.S.

Execution 8

Execution Training Education Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories.

Ethics 10

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Over the course of my career, I’ve spent countless hours talking to and hearing from leaders around the world. against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. Just look at the leaders of ANZ, the global banking group headquartered in Melbourne. You and Your Team Series.

Drotter 8

Drotter Charan Leadership Pipeline Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. I’m thinking of HDFC Bank in India, Yahoo! Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50