HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains. We have a critical role to play to help our customers, our industry, and our world lessen the environmental impact of supply chains. Robinson will continue to help advance the supply chain around the globe.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

"At any given time, Kannapolites can take part in studies of nutrition, longevity, or cognitive or physical performance; eat a standardized diet; or spend time in a metabolic chamber while their vital signs are monitored — sometimes for $30 to $250 and up," reports Wilson. As you can imagine, this is where things get complicated.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

This is a boss you remember for years, one who has a lasting impact on your career. Here are two quick (disguised) examples: Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known manufacturing company. Since this was a minor operation, Sheila’s supervisor, the head of Supply Chain, paid her very little attention.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In most fields we add value in the early stages of our careers by getting things done. Sometimes this transition is obvious and dramatic, such as when we’re promoted and obtain our first direct reports or hire our first employees. This emphasis on leading and not merely doing has had a profound impact on management education.

Goleman 13

Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The 2018 Future Workforce Report by Upwork claims 63% of U.S. They’re most successful when they have the everyday flexibility they need to meet the demands of their professional life and accomplish the things they identify as priorities outside of their career.” Remote and flex work also present new challenges for managers.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Policies Insurance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The personae include Wharton management professor Daniel Raff, who points out the dangers of Amazon’s growing control over cultural products, and venture capitalist David Pakman, who takes the kind of position a venture capitalist would, namely that publishers need to wake up to the realities of the digital world.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The Verge reported that Uber sent out brand ambassadors with burner phones and credit cards. The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. .” Competition Employee retention Talent management'

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Reporters have traditionally been finders of information and spinners of stories. Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers.

Storytelling 15

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

When Tex Gunning, a Dutch CEO who has made a career of leading companies out of crises of growth, took the reins of TNT, a troubled express-package delivery company centered in Europe, he spent the first six weeks not in his headquarters office, but at the front lines of the business—in the depots, on the trucks, and with customers.

Company 10

Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Experience in an outside firm should be a requirement before embarking on your career in the family business, says Lachenauer. You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

The Great Place to Work Institute partners with Fortune to produce the “100 Best Companies to Work For” in which trust comprises two-thirds of the criteria , since their research shows that “trust between managers and employees is the primary defining characteristic of the very best workplaces.” Repeatedly.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Commitment Report Skills 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

For example, our Inclusive Leaders program is designed to equip managers to play leadership roles in growing Intel’s inclusive culture and fostering leadership skills needed to build diverse and inclusive, high-performing teams. To scale further impact, we integrated program content to our managers worldwide beginning in 2021.

Diversity 52

Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Should you disclose what’s happening to your manager and colleagues? Would you be able to complete the report we’ve been working on? But, in most cases, Kreamer says, it’s best to talk to your manager when you already “have some notion of how you intend to handle the problem.” What the Experts Say.

Crisis 8

Crisis Case Study Brainstorming Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Our financial, military, healthcare, utilities, communications, commerce, supply chain, and just about every other essential life and business infrastructure system now depends on it. A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Being promoted to manager is a good sign you’ve been successful to date — however, the road from this point forward gets trickier to navigate. With respect to your career, a philosophy is simply a cohesive way of thinking about your role. Becoming a Manager. Your job is no longer just about getting the work done.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain Greenleaf Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Few managers would have hired me into the job, at $11-per-hour with no commission, as a retail sales associate at a suburban mall. I was 50 years old and my last job as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News paid a high five-figure salary. [This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization.].

Retail 14

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Travel 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes. Now that game is over.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

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 17

Career P&L Supply Chain CEO 17

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ Corporate Culture. Communications.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57