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.

Compliance 52

Compliance Policies Guidelines Planning 52

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! The only way to work networking in is to schedule attendance to an event and go. This leads to furthering your credentials and friendships.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

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 13

Credit Rating Bond Price Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

Gone is the old insurgent pitch: “This is going to be a wild ride, it may be chaotic, but you will be able to make your mark.” As complaints build and top talent starts defecting, it begs the question: Can you really solve individual issues with committee-developed packages?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bureaucracy System Price 8

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 8

Creativity Participative Audience Incubator 8

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). A few examples: Dow put forth 2025 targets “to help redefine the role of business in society,” which aim to deliver breakthrough innovations and help build the circular economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

They staff committees and events, hoping to generate more leads. Just because you once spoke to their business club, attended a workshop with them or served on a volunteer committee, they keep coming back to you for free work. What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Now I Want _.

Committee 53

Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 53

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. They were broken limbs and other injuries that often required hospitalization and significant time away from work. David thought that Campbell should do better. And I agreed, which was partially why I’d hired him.

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Tim Cook in his testimony to the Senate committee said should I borrow money at 1% or should I pay 35% on my repatriated profit? My proposal has two particular sources of revenue-raising: One is that we have now large numbers of pass-through entities, and we have more business income in non-C-corporate form than we do in C-corporate form.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

We were independent in a sense that no other agency of government can countermand the actions of the Federal Open Market Committee. In this view, the “soft landing” engineered by the Fed in 1994-1995, hailed at the time as a masterpiece of monetary policy-making, may have actually set the stage for the wild times that ensued.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

A similar if less-stark dynamic could play out on the monetary-policy Federal Open Market Committee, where inflation hawks with Republican leanings would discover they weren't so hawkish after all. Presidents, while often hamstrung on the domestic front, have a lot of leeway to arrange foreign policy as they choose.

Ryan 8

Ryan Insurance Policies Wilde 8