HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Depending on what you are celebrating at work and how wild your team is about to be with the decorations, holiday safety can promise a stress-free experience instead of spending it putting out small fires and tripping over stray balloons. Well, many people don’t but it’s usually something to look forward to during the holiday season.

Compliance 52

Compliance Policies Guidelines Planning 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

Leadership recognizes that it needs professional systems and the professional managers to run them. The problem is that procedural manuals encourage the company to paint by numbers, which appeals to a certain breed of plain-vanilla manager. They start recruiting like incumbents.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bureaucracy System Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

I should disclose here that John Chambers, the chairman of S&P's sovereign ratings committee, is a social acquaintance. And S&P's ratings downgrade of the U.S., whether right or wrong, was at least a case of taking a stand and not passing the buck.

Credit Rating 14

Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

There is no artistic guru, no committee, no guiding body of any kind," Gudgin explains. A carefully designed "architecture of participation" that blends wild-eyed creativity with the spirit of unblinking competition. Yet an extraordinary cluster of performers turns up every year to move the mix in a new direction.".

Creativity 9

Creativity Participative Audience Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

More than 50 large companies have joined RE100 , a group committing to use 100% renewable power (disclosure: I’m on the RE100 steering committee). For years, asset owners with longer-term horizons, like pension or sovereign wealth funds, have pressed companies to better manage environmental and social issues. Blackrock, with $4.7

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

These pointers are offered to help manage time and resources. They staff committees and events, hoping to generate more leads. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. Business organizations are like trees. You Once Did _.

Committee 51

Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Most befuddling to David was that when he brought this to the attention of the safety committee, he was met with shrugs. While safety was under his umbrella, before the position was created it had been under the purview of individual plant managers and localities and, to a degree, HR. David thought that Campbell should do better.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Letter Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the “ Scientific Background ” essay on Tirole’s work provided by the Nobel committee, the focus is on Tirole’s work on industry structure, which has had a big impact on antitrust and other regulation, especially in Europe. Game-theoretic models of industry did indeed often offer wonderfully explicit advice.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8