HR Digest

JULY 1, 2021

During the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), BCG and the European Association for People Management surveyed 3,400 executives, including 90 senior human resources leaders in more than 30 countries, to see how they were responding. Star performers aren’t like doctors or engineers. They post portfolios instead of resumes.

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Media Brand Crisis Skills 111

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Today I would like to highlight a great resource that comes out each month from LinkUp that will help you keep tabs on which direction the employment market is moving. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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Report Human Resources Open-book Advertising 124

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

An Institutional Review is a look at activities that contribute to an organization’s success and well-being. What a Review Could Include: Among the components and professional specialties that could be represented in a performance review, per each branch on the Business Tree, include: Branch 1: Core business, core industry.

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Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 58

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills. About Development Dimensions International (DDI) DDI is a global human resources consultancy specializing in leadership assessment and development.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.

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Press Release Discount PR Parcell 193

Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 178

Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

Your page ranking in search engines is determined by the relevancy of the content on your website. Most customers start their research on the Internet: give them ways to find you when they use a search engine. NOTE: Lead your customers forward by making your process easy to use. 4) Establish excellent incoming links.

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Press Release Discount Content Directory 145

Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you are the type of person who simply does not “get&# social networking, then please review my introductory posts on this subject (link) and (link). What if you don’t understand these types of marketing avenues?

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Press Release Discount PR Blog 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Like it or not, most of us think about career success in terms of moving up the hierarchy. This person, let's call him Bill, had been with the company for many years, understood the engineering and supply chain issues, and was well respected by everyone. Most of us have grown up assuming that career success is vertical.

Career 15

Career P&L Supply Chain CEO 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Your biggest resource is a wide scope.and the daring to visualize success and then all of its components. An Institutional Review is a look at activities that contribute to an organization's success and well-being.

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Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Career speed bumps (much like their counterparts in the road ) can take you by surprise. Take not having the right credentials, one common career speed bump. It's easy to ignore if you are speeding along in your career with the same employer, but suddenly losing your job can send you careening out of control.

Career 8

Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 8

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. It was U-shaped. From Data to Action An HBR Insight Center.

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Company Human Resources Human Capital Engineering 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Google your name periodically. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Be willing to be scattered.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I worried that being in sales would not carry the prestige and credibility I so badly wanted as I started my professional career. The partner replied, “Human resource management.”. Off to San Francisco I went to be a human resource management associate at a Big Six consulting firm. Career planning Sales'

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Advertising Human Resources Consultative Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

Then HR runs a query for alternative qualified successors based on the position profile, and candidates from both lists are considered in all talent reviews. This lack of information made it difficult to make informed, objective decisions for succession planning and leader career development. Gender Hiring Human resources'

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Diversity Leadership Pipeline Human Resources Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. Companies need to create innovation careers rather than just innovation jobs.

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Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Career opportunities for women in "the New India" are rapidly expanding, but family expectations and social mores remain rooted in tradition. Not surprisingly, the most stress is felt among women between 25 and 55 years of age, who are trying to balance demanding careers with obligations at home. We do all of them.".

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Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales. While an internal combustion engine has thousands of parts, a Tesla electric engine contains a few dozen, each needing different engineering skills.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

At the same time, employees are just as stressed about the growing skills gap, Accenture research shows, and most of them are unclear about which skills they need to advance their careers. Designing more flexible career paths allows companies to easily deploy people to different roles where their skills are in demand.

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Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Today, we talk about giving employees a consumer-like experience: not “jobs,” but meaningful careers; not “roles”, but a sense of purpose. Ray Kurzweil, Google’s director of engineering, argues that, “our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. Human resources Productivity'

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Talent Management Human Resources Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. If successful, they then were given responsibility for increasingly larger businesses.

Management 13

Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

For example, IBM got a court to enjoin a former IBM executive from taking a job at Apple; the executive had managed semiconductor and server engineering at IBM and IBM argued that he would inevitably disclose trade secrets in his new job managing iPod and iPhone engineering. Government Knowledge management Talent management'

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Incentives Policies Innovation Human Capital 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

And, as reported in a recent New York Times article , women make up just 17% of Google’s engineering employees and 21% of its managers. Diversity Gender Human resources' One possible explanation for such drastic gender disparities is that they are caused by unconscious biases.

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Training Diversity Human Resources Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M. So it''s not just us!

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Coco has a unique background because he's not a career HR professional; he started in operations at GE , where he was trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement expert. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We We have an open dialog to make sure we are aligned on a unified cadence," Coco said.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

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. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The most frequently mentioned fears were losing their reputation, underachieving (even among seasoned executives), and dying, both literally and in their career, and how it inspires a fixation on status, appearing youthful, and making money. The 27 executives whom I interviewed spoke candidly about their own fears.

CEO 8

CEO Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

And the skills required to fill many of the jobs returning first in the recovery — namely in engineering, IT, and healthcare — do not match the skills of Americans most needing work. On our careers site, we're seeing wages rise for specialized technology positions. Tailor compensation levels accordingly.

Skills 14

Skills Incentives Training Positioning 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. They want to seize on the promise of AI, machine learning, and people analytics to improve business results and enhance their career prospects.

Technology 8

Technology Talent Management Process Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers. That requires better integrating your HR and Procurement systems.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 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. Consult with peers?

Ethics 9

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Here are the winners, in alphabetical order, with links to their stories and hacks: Ashoka's Hybrid Value Chain: Revving the Engine of Sustained Global Prosperity and Social Value. million-strong army of advocates for this principled approach to business in its "consultoras" (direct sales agents). Hack by Valeria Budinich, Ashoka.

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Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” Workers will more likely invest when standardized skills promise them a secure career path with reliably good wages in the future. 39% of employers did. Nor is the skills gap primarily a problem of schooling.

Skills 8

Skills Short-term Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. I've been streamlining and rationalizing things my entire career. But this evening, dinner at the Lobatos's home wasn't going well. But mobility — it's a strange world.".

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Case Study Chemicals ROI Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. We'll be reviewing sales projections for the coming year, performance expectations for the senior marketing specialists and their teams, and overall strategy for meeting those.

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Case Study Airlines Hotels Software 15