Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Our goal: to crack the code of these women’s success, in order to help organizations better identify and leverage their highest-potential female leaders and to ensure more women succeed in the future. Female CEOs scored significantly higher, in the 70th percentile, than the benchmark for humility, the 55th.

CEO 8

CEO Benchmarking Mentor Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

It’s well known that very few consumers are familiar with the terms of their credit card agreements and that even fewer are aware of those terms’ implications. If you were to charge $1,000 to it and make only the minimum payment each month, how long would it take you to pay it off? Customers Finance Internet'

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Long-term Tools Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. That’s why successful innovators prepare for irrelevance long in advance.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

While we would be naive if we didn’t acknowledge politics as a potentially destructive force, when deployed effectively it can help the company meet its strategic goals and live up to its values, especially during organizational change. Defining politics. So what is it? This leads us to take the high ground. The High Ground.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. If our equitable compensation program guide is to be trusted, you need to identify relevant external benchmarks to understand prevailing salary ranges for similar roles in the market.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

If you have good character, how long does it take to lose it and how do you keep from losing it? If you don’t have good character, how long does it take to gain it? If you have good character, how long does it take to lose it and how do you keep from losing it? I’m assuming that is why it took so long.

Ethics 95

Ethics Servant Leader Execution Survey 95

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. Sometimes you sense that something isn’t right at work.

Ethics 8

Ethics How To Morale Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

With this in mind, I’m volunteering to carry out a management concept recall: with 2019 marking the 25th anniversary of the “triple bottom line,” a term I coined in 1994, I propose a strategic recall to do some fine tuning. But success or failure on sustainability goals cannot be measured only in terms of profit and loss.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11