Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Warren Buffett is rightfully admired for his investment record as chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, which has outperformed the S&P 500 Index by more than 10% annually during his 50-year tenure. The company does not ask for budgets, financial forecasts, or strategy documents. DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

When confronted with the opportunity to cheat, most people engage in behavior that violates their own ethical goals. This research hints at how simply nudging people toward more ethical behavior can have important implications for organizations, which commonly bear substantial costs from dishonesty. car insurance company.

Ethics 8

Ethics Bottom-up Attitude Survey Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations. One of the defining distinctions between people “in the C-suite” and the actual CEO is that CEOs usually have many more weak ties in a variety of domains. An ethical compass.

Skills 13

Skills Morale Ethics System 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Kozlowski is the former CEO of Tyco International. After Kozlowski was convicted in 2005, I began including case studies about the Tyco corporate scandal in the business ethics classes I taught. For some board of director meetings, there were no minutes, and there were several major decisions that were not documented in board minutes.

Golden Parachute 8

Golden Parachute Committee Ethics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (NYDCA) recently released a well-researched report documenting similar products having different prices based on the target customer’s gender. In addition to gender pricing differences, companies often confront ethically debatable pricing opportunities such as: Are the poor paying more?

Price 8

Price Market Segmentation Ethics Morale 8

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

Clearly, there is more to being a good leader than well-documented techniques, methods and practices. A Google search for “violations of public trust by corporate executives” produced 15,700,000 results such as these two: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned for submitting false expense reports concerning his relationship with a contractor.

Crisis 150

Crisis Books Ethics Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

For example, consider the importance of performance, how the organization gets things done, the level of teamwork , the quality of the people, how people communicate, and any ethical issues. Except for ethical issues, there's no absolute standard of what's best in organizational culture. Discuss culture with people in the organization.

Ethics 15

Ethics Operations Bottom-up Teamwork 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Some people attribute the company’s missteps to the personal failings of founder-CEO Travis Kalanick. Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

One of the changes I document in the book is how Goldman drifted from a focus on ethical standards of behavior to legal ones — from what one “should” do to what one “can” do. The company’s board docked the pay of CEO Jamie Dimon by more than half, to $11.5 Compensation Ethics Finance' million from $23 million.

Banking 8

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

The headline : "Jonah Lehrer Was Going to Give a Speech on Ethics. As has been documented in Fortune , former directors of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, and Wachovia Bank resurfaced in no time on other corporate boards like Verizon, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, and Nike. It's Canceled, Obviously".

Ethics 11

Ethics Chemicals Short-term Report 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

But consider the micromanager who asks you to document every step of your calculations so that he can be sure you got the right answer. Employees, who were paid a bonus according to how many of their students ended up with jobs, had to carefully document student performance in detail throughout the program.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

When HP's ex-CEO Mark Hurd headed to Oracle this fall, his former employer sued him , claiming that by taking the job he put "HP's most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril."

Competitive Intelligence 14

Competitive Intelligence Guidelines Survey Information 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The night before the meeting, I reviewed the document on my laptop at home, noticing that several key pieces of information were missing. George, the CEO of a technology company with over 150 employees, believes that you need to be careful when confronting someone with intelligence gained from data mining.

EPM 8

EPM Root Cause Analysis Handbook Asset Management 8

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I am the single mom of 3 disabled boys, and my morals and ethics are ‘family first’ so now that all of them are grown (not minors), and have gained a lot of personal improvement and independence… yada, yada, … that is what has been the hold-up… like I said, the more I tried to do the right thing… etc.

Hedge 312

Hedge Class Video Career 312

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. We wanted to explore whether the diversity of CEOs’ networks might affect their firms. These connections had to be at least senior managers or higher positions to be considered.

Diversity 9

Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

A few years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost a game of Scrabble to a friend’s teenage daughter. In the 1930s, Elton Mayo ignited the Human Relations movement by documenting the productivity boost that came with treating assembly line workers with dignity and care. beastfromeast/Getty Images. Take this one.

Drucker 11

Drucker Mayo Technology Globalization 11

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Examples: This company reflects the character of its CEO. The wise CEO is one who listens to others, surrounds himself-herself with smart people and fosters a spirit of teamwork. Document and comprehend the reasons for successes. Interest rates are too high. Do research.

Budgeting 76

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 76

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Then, in March, South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, was removed from office , in part because of accusations that she helped a friend, Choi Soon-sil, pressure companies into making donations to nonprofits controlled by Choi and gave her access to secret government documents. financial crisis. Redemption in Shame Culture.

Reputation 8

Reputation Crisis Loyalty Banking 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Curiously, that charity has been clouded by public investigations of questionable ethics and dubious fund-raising practices. They pay great sums to so-called ‘political consultants’ but will not consider asking CEOs and seasoned business executives for meaningful policy advice. He found other warm bodies.

Committee 52

Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2015

” We gather important information from faces, he notes, and we tend to be more ethical and empathetic when we’re looking someone in the eye. Or maybe it’s just from a person who unnerves you,” writes CEO Anthony Tjan. Yet sometimes it’s a good idea, according to writer and entrepreneur Peter Sims.

Silverman 8

Silverman Follow-up Entrepreneur Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

But it's a skill you must cultivate to succeed: You'll lose time, money, and influence if your e-mails, proposals, and other important documents fail to win people over. When you're fumbling for words and pressed for time, you might be tempted to dismiss good business writing as a nicety. By Robert D. Austin, Richard L.

Books 8

Books Creativity Cooper Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Edit the marketing overview document. The problem isn’t in your organizational system or work ethic — it’s in how human brains are wired. Jeffery Coolidge/Getty Images. Revise budget numbers. Parent/teacher conference Wednesday. Finish summer camp applications. Give candidate interview feedback to HR.

Short-term 8

Short-term Stress Conference Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

Early this year, Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly ended the company''s "results only work environment" (ROWE) program that judged corporate employees only on (gasp!) Because women CEOs are held to higher standards , that''s why.). For upper-middle class men, notes sociologist Michèle Lamont, ambition and a strong work ethic are "doubly sacred.

Morale 9

Morale Class Cooper Ethics 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

For example, one day an employee lashed out at me, threatening to quit, for looking over his shoulder at a document that needed to go out looking just right. Maybe the CEO isn't a very good innovator because he suffers from depression, has undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder, or is having an affair. I was taken aback.

Micromanagement 15

Micromanagement Open-book Entrepreneur Delegation 15

Coaching Tip

JUNE 8, 2017

But far from documenting an abuse of power by President Trump, his prepared statement reveals Mr. Comey's misunderstanding of law enforcement in a democracy." . Comey's "prepared testimony (made public on Wednesday, June 7th) shows why he deserved to be fired." .

Leadership 83

Leadership Document Conference Report 83