The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

Diversity has long been recognized in terms of its importance to things like innovation and creativity, with research from MIT showing how cognitive diversity improves the profitability of organizations. Similarly, including diverse directors on the nominating committee was also effective.

Diversity 101

Diversity Committee Construction Groupthink 101

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

Companies like Asana, Capgemini, Pinterest, Spotify and WWF are stepping up their game with a wide range of sweet-perks, which include executive and life coaching services, flexible vacation policy, employee assistance programs, and weekly happy hours. But an often overlooked aspect of job perks is the impact it has on the lives of employees.

ROI 81

ROI Self-aware Committee Policies 81

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“There is a strong case for a new Office for England along with a cabinet committee, to bring greater cohesion to English governance within Whitehall, and oversee long-promised devolution.”

Decentralization 59

Decentralization Budgeting System Constraint 59

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

While the diversity of boards has risen in the past 20 years, the paper highlights how women and minority directors have still struggled to obtain the loftiest positions, such as chairman of the board, lead director, or as chairman of one of the four major committees (audit, compensation, governance and nominating).

Diversity 102

Diversity Committee Sample Finance 102

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

As a team, we are focused on driving innovative programs and solutions that attract and grow our associates, and it’s fantastic when it inspires other companies to support their workforce in similar ways. At Walmart, people are at the core of our business. Donna Morris is executive vice president and chief people officer for Walmart Inc.

Environment 98

Environment Diversity Leadership Supply Chain 98

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Some of the other initiatives revolve around work-life flexibility, recruiting veteran talent and building a more diverse talent pipeline – all of which support the company’s long-term growth and innovation. Our Kapable team has driven positive change to make our internal policies and workplace more inclusive. Prior to Wolverine, Ms.

Diversity 81

Diversity Human Resources Globalization Automotive 81

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

This is harder than you think because it requires discipline on your part to make time to be intentional about the culture you want to scale and to put policies and procedures into place that create that sustainable organization. Founders think that an HR/People Strategy with manuals and policies and procedures are a waste of time.

Delegation 203

Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 203

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. As the head of the U.S.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

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

Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 16, 2013

If a church can deal with an issue in 104 years, we’ve probably addressed it by policy. We have a committee that can handle it. We have often allowed systems and policies to navigate us more than relying on the Spirit of God. Innovation Leadership Ministry Organizational Leadership' Let me explain.

Committee 69

Committee Learning-by-Doing Policies Edmondson 69

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 4, 2019

In my experience with established churches, for every issue they experience in 100 years they probably have addressed it with some sort of policy. This church had a committee that could handle everything when I arrived. We have often allowed systems and policies to navigate us more than relying on the Spirit of God.

Committee 45

Committee Learning-by-Doing Policies Budgeting 45

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And it is strangling both US competitiveness, and the ability for US firms to innovate. One of the prime drivers of economic growth inside America over the past century has been disruptive innovation ; yet the phenomenon that Lessig describes is increasingly being used by large incumbent firms as a mechanism to stave off the process.

Innovation 21

Innovation Transportation Disruptive Innovation Price 21

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Sloan then waited as each member of the assembled committee nodded in agreement. From 1857 to 1983, when the Devil''s Advocate policy was removed, 98 individuals were named saints. Communication Innovation Leading teams' Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here?"

Innovation 11

Innovation Team Brainstorming Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Organizations often design their structure, policies, and culture in order to minimize risk and optimize efficiency. One company we worked with was seeking to cultivate innovation and creativity, but the approval for new projects involved a 12 -month process requiring endorsement from a C-suite committee. Risk-averse by design.

Self-aware 14

Self-aware Committee Bottom-up Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

This integration of current performance (Box 1) with selective forgetting of the past (Box 2) while creating the future (Box 3) is the foundation of my thinking and teaching about innovation and strategy. This is the football version of linear Box 1 innovation: adaptive problem solving within the frame of the existing business model.

Innovation 8

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Committee Team 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Arizona, one of the leading cities for autonomous vehicles, is the proving ground for this transformative innovation. This fleet of driverless cars — 600 Chrysler Pacifica mini-vans, operated by Google’s Waymo — can be seen today daily on the streets where companies like GM and Ford also are testing autonomous innovations.

Transportation 8

Transportation Content Committee Technology 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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

Legitimate concerns over conflict of interest that have resulted in overly extreme preventative policies are a central cause. It is time for all parties to revisit those policies and replace them with rules that recognize both true conflicts and true confluences of interest. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

Conflict of Interest 10

Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals Policies Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

System-wide policies that disadvantage women. For example, in academic medicine, many university policies inadvertently penalize women who are in their child-rearing years. We don’t have data on policies in individual practices and hospitals, but we’d be surprised if they were any more generous.

Policies 12

Policies Leadership Mentor Career 12

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 30, 2019

We even had a policy on folded chairs. We had done remarkably well financially (again thanks to tremendous finance committee and staff efforts). We had rules for everything. Our employees were subjected to counter productive paperwork, for one example, which wasted time and zapped energy for momentum. (We True story.).

Micromanagement 40

Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 40

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2016

We even had a policy on folded chairs. We have done remarkably well financially (again thanks to tremendous finance committee and staff efforts). We had rules for everything. Our employees were subjected to counter productive paperwork, for one example, which wasted time and zapped energy for momentum. (We True story.).

Micromanagement 56

Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company. Strategy'

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

In fact, the increasing focus on pay by policy makers, shareholders, and the media has magnified its importance as a gauge of success for top executives and created a vicious cycle of ever-higher pay demands. Some countries have been highly innovative in this area. The remedy: make sure these directors don't dominate the committee.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Technology supporting innovative teachers and school leaders will be the solution for our students.

Education 15

Education Technology Engineering Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

However, the utilization rates for these policies were low, and they were often seen as incompatible with professional norms of success. Armed with this data, SSoM is now moving forward with a comprehensive program to integrate flexibility policies as a core element of the faculty advancement process.

Planning 8

Planning Policies Attrition Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This tax represents a key public policy innovation that is a rare win-win: it will hold down health care costs while raising substantial tax revenues. The Cadillac tax is an indirect means of accomplishing this same policy goal. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Policies Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The question that Chinese and outside economists now are debating is whether China’s leadership has the guts to allow the kinds of reforms that are needed to sustain growth and foster innovation. Innovation surely depends on such change. Economic growth was 7.7%

Parcell 8

Parcell Committee Long-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

All the innovations that Obama mentioned in his speech, each one of them have relied upon domestic US consumption before becoming important globally: the Internet. James Allworth is a Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School. Putting cars in driveways, computers in offices.

Energy 12

Energy Price Committee Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

asks writer Sam Grobart of Apple, who interviews CEO Tim Cook, chief designer Jonathan Ive, and head of software Craig Federighi to gauge how the trio is thinking about innovation in a market that has Android licking its lips. But Cook and his team have no interest in a race to the bottom. "We''ve Focusing on France and the U.S.,

Cooper 8

Cooper Committee Bottom-up Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In July, General Mills — nobody’s idea of a radical company — expanded the pro-climate lobbying group BICEP beyond the usual suspects (Nike, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry’s) to add a distinctly mainstream voice to the call for policies like a price on carbon. Kellogg’s officially joined the group yesterday as well.

IRR 8

IRR Energy Tips Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Government’s policies on national security. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee called for a ban on Huawei and ZTE products because of a fear of technological backdoors — just like the one the U.S. It took years to get to a point where there was enough trust that buying things online was considered normal.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Committee Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Our annual Global Gender balance Scorecard shows that 63% of the women sitting on Executive Committees of the top 100 US companies are in support functions, not P&L roles. Gender neutrality in vocabulary and policy making is the bedrock of sustainable balance. This isn't balance, it's just Mad Men, repainted.

Diversity 8

Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

” He was making the point that it is always hard to summon the will to enact big, new policy ideas, even when they appear perfectly logical. Another long-time Brookings Senior Fellow (and public policy servant extraordinaire) Alice Rivlin briefly agreed on a premium support plan several years ago with Rep. Tax on carbon.

Politics 8

Politics Health Care Budgeting Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Half of 3M's executive committee comes from outside America. America fosters risk-taking and innovation by entrepreneurs who become global leaders. government policies, such as limitations on work permits for foreign graduates of American universities that force them to return to their home countries.

Competitive Advantage 12

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Countries — Public Policy. What is the public policy context in your country? Yet in other countries, policies have adapted more quickly to the consequences of women's massive educational and economic rise. Companies — Corporate Culture & Policies. Key Metric: birth rates. Key Metric: the divorce rate.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Conducting limited and carefully managed trials will unearth the remaining engineering and policy obstacles to a smooth transition.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8