HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

Carey Pellock: Since I joined Neustar in 2012, the company has undergone significant changes – most notably a transition from public to private company status and the arrival of a new CEO. Our values informed our guiding principles, developed by our CEO and implemented by our Executive Committee, for operating through COVID-19.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

The previous power sharing involved both Eric Schmidt as CEO and the advisory pair - cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Now, Mr. Page is assuming the CEO position. General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets.

Succession 113

Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Let me explain.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The criticisms of Léo Apotheker as Hewlett-Packard's CEO are easy to list. The general reason was expressed well in a letter from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to his customers explaining his recent unpopular decisions: "Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly."

CEO 11

CEO Price Committee Letter 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

CIO 8

CIO Committee Technology P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee. The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. But let's give our financial colleagues credit for acknowledging the fundamental imbalance that the CEOs are referring to. Unexpected, to say the least.

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

But the board and executive committee are asking the innovation team all the wrong questions — questions that will kill any innovation project. They will try hard to extrapolate numbers from market trends and past experience, rather than thinking about customers, good ideas, and new paradigms. Are you meeting your milestones?"

Innovation 15

Innovation Committee Market Segmentation ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. CEOs need to clarify when talented humans must defer to algorithmic judgment. But the CEO wouldn’t — or couldn’t — pull the autonomy trigger. That’s hard.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

As the company explored new markets, it began to make additional investments in pre-cellular mobile radios and other componentry in the emerging market for mobile communications. Despite a record of success that is the envy of many a corporate chieftain (41% market share globally?

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Sam Palmisano retired as CEO of IBM on Dec. The company was led — as it had been for decades — by a corporate executive committee (CEC) of the top 11 officers of the company who ran the businesses and the corporate functions. The workforce in India, China, Brazil, and other growth markets exploded in just 36 months.

Software 15

Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Three CEOs in six years. Two of those CEOs who embarrassed themselves with inept campaigns for elective office. The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. Where is the succession planning?

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

When we speak to CEOs who are new to their role, they invariably talk about their legacy. Many CEOs put legacy issues on hold, and concentrate instead on making their quarterly growth targets. If you are a new CEO or other senior executive leader, strategic coherence is an accessible path for you and your company.

Merchandising 14

Merchandising Budgeting Pharmaceuticals CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

President Obama's appointment last week of GE Chairman Jeff Immelt as chairman of his board of outside economic advisers poses an interesting and fundamentally important question: Can the CEO of an American global company chair a panel that gives more than conventional bromides as advice to the President?

Committee 14

Committee Globalization Advice Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

My manager and team practiced an egalitarian decision-making process in which we would meet, discuss everything from content marketing campaigns to social media tactics, and collectively come up with strategies to move forward with. Engage a diverse planning committee. Organize more daytime events.

Management 9

Management Diversity Collins Committee 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I recently asked him about how demands on executives — and CEOs in particular — have changed over the years, and how today’s leaders can best navigate their busy days. But there are slightly different issues CEOs and the C-suite are facing, right? There are two classic errors CEOs make. Which leaves them with a lot to do.

Execution 9

Execution Productivity Products CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Apple's Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share — and the new iPhones Bloomberg Businessweek "Is taking the high road truly a sustainable strategy, or does it merely delay the inevitable?" Does a unit of market share matter if it''s not being used?" Still Delicious? But Cook and his team have no interest in a race to the bottom. "We''ve

Cooper 8

Cooper Committee Bottom-up Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

These integrated businesses are also typically led by pharma managers who don’t fully understand the acquired businesses and their markets. The talent and skill needed to build and market services and solutions is different from the talent required to market drugs. Regulatory environment.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Health Care Industry Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Martin Sorrell, the CEO of advertising and public relations giant WPP, was just at the Sundance Film Festival, where he saw a documentary called The Flaw. Jim Turley, the CEO of Ernst & Young, immediately went and ruined it by changing the subject to the decline in business-bashing in the U.S. It seemed like a significant moment.

Porter 15

Porter Trends Policies Film 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The former you can do with a few staffers and the CEO’s blessing, but the latter requires broad organizational support and ongoing effort. business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Think weekly, not quarterly.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Sales professionals and organizations are responding with new strategies and technologies that allow them to deliver personalized experiences at scale. Part of asking the right questions is understanding who’s on the buying committee, which is particularly challenging given that 6.8

B2B 8

B2B CRM Franchising Media 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

Corporate CEOs enjoyed a high degree of autonomy from stockholders, which gave them a high degree of job security. Second, due to developments in financial technology that weakened their ability to profit from lending, the large commercial banks turned toward fee-for-service activities, morphing increasingly into quasi-investment banks.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This week, CEOs and world leaders met at the UN to talk climate. Disclosure: I’m on the steering committee of RE100 this group working to bring in corporate members.). The CEO leaders of the parade, like Richard Branson and Unilever’s Paul Polman, took the stage at The Climate Group’s climate week launch event in New York on Monday.

IRR 8

IRR Energy Tips Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. Market share expanded, cost controls tightened, safety improved, operational efficiency peaked, and so did profits. [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.].

P&L 15

P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand! Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Spend quality time with every member of the executive committee. Look for ways to stretch the boundaries of current innovation efforts, but remember you are not the CEO or CTO. Watts also suggests zeroing in on the adjacencies that have the potential to shape your market. Some may involve developing specific capabilities.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. So she wrote a memo to the CEO explaining why gender balance is good for business. Initially there was no buy-in.

Innovation 9

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

To the contrary, said Vanguard CEO William McNabb , this is “precisely why we care so much about good governance.” In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Consider the story of Bud Frankel, the founder of Frankel , a firm that created the marketing services industry (where both of us eventually worked) that gained a national reputation and attracted clients across both the consumer and healthcare areas.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Nonetheless, many CEOs and top executives struggle with their functional organizations, and some question whether the established functional model is still relevant. There are several possible solutions, each with strengths and weaknesses.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board. Besides possibly saving humanity, the deal has another big upside — it signals to financial markets and businesses that the low carbon economy is worth investing in. In the U.S., Blackrock, with $4.7

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Another way to raise your profile with your boss’s boss is by volunteering for a cross-functional committee — preferably one run by him. Earlier in his career, he was the director of marketing at a “very hierarchical” organization with a “prickly” CEO, to whom his manager reported.

Career 11

Career Bond Case Study CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Building scale for your distinctive capabilities must be at the top of the CEO agenda. 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.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8