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. Finding the success stories out there, celebrating them, and spreading the practices behind them can be part of that.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

A few months ago I decided to look into the professional experience of non-executive directors at the major banks listed in Britain. Like almost every other major industry today, banking relies on hugely complex, enormously expensive technology. I’m afraid this is typical not just in banking but across most major industries.

Technology 8

Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

You don’t need to break the bank to offer attractive extras. And with only 1%–2% of companies currently using an unlimited time-off policy, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) , it’s clearly a benefit that can make companies more attractive.

Insurance 15

Insurance Policies Survey Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times. Those steps helped the bank drive up loan volumes, a tangible bump the CMO could point to in discussions with other leaders.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. Build Your Bench Strength Without Breaking the Bank.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

(Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). The best answers to this question generally protect or generate top line growth.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP). And finally, as human resource costs account for most of the initiative’s expenses, it’s critical that providers and staff practice at the highest level their skill allows.

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Class Insurance Cost Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Michael Banks/Getty Images. For example, so few computer and information systems managers existed in 1980 that data used here did not record this occupation. Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance.

Management 10

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

It's not about a bank. It's about life, tragedy, and human potential. Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into.

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

I saw this first hand while researching the hiring practices of top-tier investment banks, management consulting firms, and law firms. One banking recruitment manager summarized the typical approach this way: I’m just being really honest, it [an application] pretty much goes into a black hole. ’s most elite universities.

EPS 8

EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

This is perhaps even more the case in the world of management outside of academic medicine — whether it is finance, consulting, or technology — as the path from professional to senior executive requires more than individual success. Sam appeared keen, ambitious, and enthusiastic. Sometimes this becomes obvious suddenly.

Mentor 8

Mentor Emotional Intelligence Project Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The American historian Francis Fukuyama even declared “ the end of history ,” writing in National Interest ‘s summer 1989 issue that he saw “the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” For example, they use their chambers of commerce to lobby for tax cuts.

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Cooper Politics Globalization Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Then banking regulations were imposed. As Richard Dickinson and Kate Pickett show in Spirit Level, a value like equality, for example, is prized more highly in Norway than in the U.S.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12