Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company. Equipment leasing can help you gear up for construction projects on Anchorage’s two active military bases.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2011

Whether you are in an office, factory or on a construction site, the principles presented will improve your retention and enable you to save your organization thousands of dollars due to lost productivity, poor quality and customer service issues. Lead by being a positive example. Your attitude… develop an upbeat attitude. Be genuine.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

As a manager, how can you cultivate a sense of career growth and development for your people, even when possibilities for promotion are limited or nonexistent? I posed this question to my human resource management students recently. As an example, let me introduce you to Sam.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

Whether you are in an office, factory or on a construction site, the principles presented will improve your retention and enable you to save your organization thousands of dollars due to lost productivity, poor quality and customer service issues. The point here is that you set lead by example. Get out of your office.

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Learning-by-Doing Open-book Training Micromanagement 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Thus if we want to stay in the “sweet spot” among these three, we must not fear career transitions or even change itself; indeed, we must seek them out. Career Transitions. Don’t Underestimate the Power of Lateral Career Moves for Professional Growth. Career mindset. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. Consider, for example, the bathtub.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

I've worked in human resources for over 25 years, the past six with Newell Rubbermaid, and this is not a new endeavor for me. Throughout my career, I have consistently faced the question, "How does HR add value in a business?" In many cases, this question is not asked politely. Not all fixed cost reductions were people.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 21, 2021

They switch jobs frequently and their careers are more fluid and less linear than prior generations. In today’s economy, work is increasingly dependent on mobility—across locations, projects, career progression, family needs and more. Throughout a career they work across companies, teams, locations, geographies and jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks. Here are some examples that we’ve seen at GE: An exceptionally talented financial controller was moved to head IT and in just a year was able to re-energize the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

For example, predictive analytics can reduce employee turnover costs. This month, Credit Suisse said it calculates who is likely to quit , and proactively offers them new career roles. How should those safeguards be constructed? Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

There may be some factors that are completely out of the company’s control – for example, if the candidate ultimately decides to pursue another career path or work in a different industry or geographic location. The feedback that candidates provide can fall into several categories.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

The higher up in the organization you get, the less likely you'll receive constructive feedback on your ideas, performance, or strategy. While you may be tempted to enjoy this deference, the silence will not help you, your organization or your career. Request examples. No one wants to offend the boss, right?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Their stories are prominent examples of a widespread pattern. Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience. as young adult. as young adult.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

We reframed their roles, encouraging them to see themselves not simply as professionals executing audits, for example, but as members of a profession that helps millions of American families make better informed decisions about investing their life savings. Courtesy of KPMG. Instead, we surpassed the goal before the Fourth of July.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

To tap into this pool, Beane first determined precisely the specialized skills he needed to win—the ability to get on base often, for example—and then mined the terabytes of statistical data that were newly available on the Internet to identify those players who had them. This is exactly what Billy Beane did.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. It’s also important to set the stage for a “constructive conversation,” says Fernández-Aráoz.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. For each participant, we combined these assessments to construct an assessment index. Further Studies.

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Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Over the course of our careers, and through our formal research on mentoring within and outside of academia, we’ve found that good mentoring is discipline-agnostic. While we draw many of our examples from academic medicine, the lessons are pertinent across disciplines. As academic physicians, we do a lot of mentoring.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2012

Examples include: Sales : Did you exceed your monthly / annual sales budget? E.g. If you project managed the construction of a new building worth $100M, this gives an understanding of the trust that was awarded as well as your level of competence. Human Resources : Did you complete any coaching or mentoring of staff members?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 23, 2010

For example: Traditional Thinking : Human Resources-driven programs like pay and recognition are essential for retention. Traditional Thinking : Centralized communication and career programs impact all employees equally. Rethinking Retention : Ineffective supervisors trump programs and drive turnover.

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