Chartered Management Institute

MAY 31, 2023

As our CEO Ann Francke reminded us in a recent Bloomberg UK analysis of gender equality in UK business, the scarcity of senior women in executive committees and in leadership roles remains a pressing concern. If you were unable to attend on 16 May, good news! You can watch back the livestream here.

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Conference Absenteeism Newsletter Article 52

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. Others do not. What’s the differentiator?

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Employees should feel comfortable to share their concerns on policies and practices particularly those relating to safety and compliance. HR should also be involved with safety committees, training and employee development and company mentoring programs. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

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Mentor Trends Committee Compliance 232

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Corporate Responsibility is more than just a statement that a committee whips together. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. It is more than a slogan or rehash of a Mission Statement. Change is 90% beneficial.

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Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 50

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.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

I was on the committee that wrote that legislation. It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. It opens your services to additional market niches. “ Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy.” Actions are always required.

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Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 85

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As a Corporate Strategist TM , Hank speaks and advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, executive-leadership development, futurism and the Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. He advises at the Executive Committee and board levels, providing Big Picture ideas. Juliano Howard T.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Mine your backyard.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Implicit, or “unconscious,” bias against women in medicine is prevalent, affecting their hiring, promotions, development, and wellbeing. System-wide policies that disadvantage women. For example, in academic medicine, many university policies inadvertently penalize women who are in their child-rearing years.

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Policies Leadership Mentor Career 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

And they count on well-intentioned, smart people sitting in a committee to decide which ideas are worth pursuing. Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they need a process that operates with speed and urgency , and that helps innovators and other stakeholders to curate and prioritize problems, ideas, and technologies.

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Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

and while s ome state it explicitly in their handbooks and paraphernalia, other organizations indicate it by their policies and actions toward employees. Many top leaders are very open about their policies and are also highly rated by employees who work there. Organizations have their own ways of defining “What is company culture?”

Examples 97

Examples Company Diversity Team Building 97

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Building a conscious pay system requires conscious policies and practices that support such an initiative. The next involves assessing the conditions you work under and reframing your policies and systems to best support your employees. Then develop protocols for making adjustments to address identified pay disparities.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Which corporate policies should apply to the new division and which should not? How much time should the corporate executive committee spend on this new activity? Should the new activity have a separate stock market listing or separate funding? How should it be monitored and targeted? How should it be monitored and targeted?

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Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. They could be appropriate for Dimon, but so could a compensation action about future variable comp.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Europe''s $100 billion carbon market, an innovative force in the powerful carbon-reduction approach known as cap and trade, has ceased to function the way it''s supposed to. The resulting chaos in Europe''s energy and environmental policies is threatening carbon-reduction initiatives in Australia, Asia, and elsewhere.

Price 8

Price Energy Politics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The truth is that the worlds of activism and impact investing are converging much more swiftly than most people realize — and this union holds enormous promise for those who wish to see the creation of capital markets that support sustainable economic development. But it is reportedly not alone. This is a game changer.

Hedge 9

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Others, it appeared, did not mind working full time at all, but they disliked some of the other things that came with being a partner in a traditional consulting firm, such as working on internal committees and appraisals, or doing customer acquisition. Talent management Employee retention Personnel policies'

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McCallum Competitive Advantage McKinsey Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

The new leaders of China had their very important policy meeting in early November, the so-called Third Plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Phasing out the one-child family planning policy is an important case in point. But it’s a development that America may not be prepared for.

Proposal 8

Proposal Politics Long-term Restructuring 8

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

JANUARY 3, 2011

Companies need to develop strategies for managing this important resource as water stress becomes the norm in many regions of the world. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has been extremely successful in compelling companies to assess their carbon footprint, develop carbon strategies, set reduction targets, and reduce their emissions.

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Price Report Resources Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

President Obama's recent appointment of an Interagency Trade Enforcement Committee to stop unfair trade and ensure a "level playing field" for U.S. The first target was then-heavy European subsidization of the development of the Airbus. Do you think this deal will really open up the Korean market and produce a surge of U.S.

Proposal 9

Proposal Commitment Bottom-up Committee 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Like many entrepreneurial founders, he did it by force of personality and personal vision, without much concern for consensus or committees. Again, the license is not unlimited; founders who misjudge markets royally lose their license to operate. As an entrepreneur, he built a company that changed history.

Licensing 11

Licensing Entrepreneur Consensus CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

The world is full of examples: "At IBM , we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. Is it any wonder Apple's market cap has left IBM's in the dust? Did no one watch Star Wars?

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Mission Statement Public Relations Commitment Committee 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. It reached a peak on June 12 and then proceeded to lose over 40% of its value by the end of August despite efforts by the Chinese government to prop up the market. Companies should anticipate this trend and start developing “value pricing” and less expensive products.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

There''s nothing new about comparing global policies pertaining to working parents, particularly when it comes to working mothers. Just highlight what it is about your current job that you love — and how you can continue to develop your skills to make yourself valuable to your company. There''s the Rub.

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Committee Content Price Organizational Behavior 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. You’ll increase your exposure to other parts of the company, expand your network, and “develop a personal reputation that’s not tied to your boss.”

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Career Bond Case Study CEO 13

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

After graduating from my undergrad education (2007) I unexpectedly joined my parents’ company as the Global Sales and Marketing Director…it has been amazing yet seems to be a daily trial by fire test. Ak January 5, 2010 at 1:38 pm Thank you Terry. Fantastic post. They realize that business involves human beings and that pro?table

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. They cannot be all things to all people. Social Networkers.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. How diverse is the planning committee? Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 65

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? At J&J it may go back to 2005 when employees reported a lack of alignment between manager behavior and company values and policies.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Given the growing sensitivity to widening income inequality in many developed economies, it is no wonder that criticism of soaring executive pay has intensified. In Sweden, most institutional investors take advantage of opportunities to sit on the nominations committee of investee companies. Shareholders. Boards of Directors.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8