HR Digest

JULY 14, 2021

A finance expert who wants now to expand into marketing or customer dealings can choose from a myriad of short courses that deal in the same fields. . As people advance in their industry, they may need to develop leadership, finance, or accounting skills, which they can acquire through these EMBAs or short business courses.

Short-term 59

Short-term Leadership Pipeline Execution Leadership 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. For the moment, this is good news for those companies still experimenting or piloting AI (41%).

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. It examines methods for assessing a company’s knowledge gaps, creating a knowledge transfer plan, and nurturing a culture that encourages knowledge sharing and collaboration. Juliano Howard T.

How To 72

How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

We believe these same measures can be successfully adopted and adapted by other companies in pharma and other sectors that seek to avert, or reverse, innovation stagnation. To further align individuals around the success of the company instead specific programs, every employee at Roivant or one of its subsidiaries receives stock options.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. It examines methods for assessing a company’s knowledge gaps, creating a knowledge transfer plan, and nurturing a culture that encourages knowledge sharing and collaboration. Juliano Howard T.

How To 62

How To Tacit Knowledge Mentor Intellectual Capital 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They also generate $1 trillion as consumers and $361 billion in revenue as entrepreneurs, launching companies at 4x the rate of all woman-owned businesses. Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And what factors helped or hindered advancement in their organization?

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. The Mercer QuickPulse US Compensation Planning Survey of August 2023 found that employers are planning a 3.9 percent of the U.S.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Increasing numbers of companies are looking to build a behavioral science team — one that is located at the very center of their business and that the whole organization can benefit from. A data scientist who has the ability to work with and extract value from a large, diverse set of data scattered across your organization and beyond.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

According to a 2015 Healthline survey , 44% of people say that they are stressed during the holidays, with more than 18% reporting that they’re “very stressed.” Unfortunately, the tools most employers use to improve company culture are backfiring. 80% of companies plan to host a holiday party. And the U.S.

Stress 11

Stress Team Survey Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

A recent study in the UK, for instance, shows that 3 out of 4 judges, 2 out of 3 doctors, 3 out of 4 finance directors, and 1 out of 2 chief executives come from fairly well-off families. Companies truly interested in hiring people from diverse backgrounds must abandon the conventional practice of filtering by résumé.

Diversity 10

Diversity Reputation Talent Management Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital. But in some companies, strategists are bolder.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is ten percent of the company. … A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does. Established in 2008, the KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel is a representative survey of German startups.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Innovation Skills Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since then, we’ve received over 7,000 responses from a diverse group of participants. For each completed survey, we calculated an overall BMI score by aggregating responses across seven categories of bureaucratic drag: bloat, friction, insularity, disempowerment, risk aversion, inertia, and politicking.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. How the best companies get up to speed. The consequences for not doing so can be dire.

Industry 13

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

Others have argued that executive education programs are likely to be disrupted , as companies weigh the savings they could achieve by directing executives to MOOCs instead. This includes a demographic survey with over 65,000 responses. These programs are a crucial source of revenue for business schools.

Education 11

Education Course Class Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The customer's voice has a new champion sitting at the highest levels of power in companies. The role exists in B2B and B2C firms as diverse as Allstate, Dunkin' Brands, USAA, Philips Electronics, FedEx, the Cleveland Clinic, and SAP. Who are these new customer experience executives — and why do companies appoint them?

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B2C B2B Forrester Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Why do companies get caught up in illegal behavior, harassment, and toxic leadership? We surveyed thousands of workers in the U.S. rogue traders in finance). Dropping a diversity initiative onto these types of workplaces is unlikely to create meaningful change. Masculinity Contest Cultures.

Organization 8

Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The group was diverse: I spoke with a 39-year-old managing director of a large investment bank, a failing self-employed photographer, a millionaire entrepreneur, and a Fortune 500 CEO. As their personal finances shored up, professionals I surveyed yearned for more control over their lives. You can't ever get those years back.".

Career 10

Career Golden Handcuff Short-term CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Even though we cannot say for certain the extent to which new businesses generate middle class jobs, we do know that company founders come from the middle class themselves. The diversity of models in alternative lending cautions against a one-size-fits-all approach to policy; different approaches must be treated differently.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. Yet, only 30 percent of companies believe they understand their customers’ needs well enough to identify what initiatives will drive growth.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. The vast majority of companies do practice some form of cost of capital estimations.

Cost of Capital 13

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

At least that’s better than the 70% of companies that plainly ignore complaints on Twitter. Yet, despite the urgency of getting it right—and the ample time that companies have had to figure it out—most corporations have an empathy deficit. We analyzed 350,000 tweets across 300 companies. This matters.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

They have become such a deeply entrenched part of life at top schools that these companies and their recruiting practices have been referred by students and administrators as “the deluge,” “the onslaught,” and even “the path of least resistance.” But what does this really mean in practice?

EPS 8

EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Over the past five years, we spoke with and surveyed people from a range of professions—from doctors and teachers to truckers and mechanics. Large companies, such as Chevron , Cigna , Starbucks , and Google have all implemented similar initiatives in order to ensure smoother transitions for their transgender employees.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Survey Process Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Diversity makes a global sales incentive plan impractical and dangerous.” ” When it comes to globalizing sales incentive plan design, companies should tread with caution. Global guidelines help countries design incentive plans that fit with local needs but also align with a unified company perspective.

Globalization 8

Globalization System Incentives Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

” But, increasingly, those same companies are now choosing to invent as well as manufacture abroad. based companies. In a recent survey of 369 manufacturers , researchers found that across a range of fields U.S. Jetta Productions/Getty Images. firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.”

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In spite of being a small agency, they manage to have a blog read by over 25,000 people monthly, a weekly podcast series, e-books, e-learning classes, surveys, and more. Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One survey suggests the public wants chief executives to lead on social change without waiting for the government to act. A separate survey shows public support for corporate engagement on such issues as sexual harassment and equal pay — though not on gun control or abortion. Companies must consider values, not just shared value.

CEO 10

CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. This is simple to say but difficult to do. million people.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

My surveys of successful crowdfunders show that crowdfunding serves to validate demand and build communities of support. Women, for example, are much less likely to be funded than men, so much so that less than 8% of all VC backed companies have female cofounders. This would not have happened without crowdfunding.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Project Diversity Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Once upon a time, CEOs did not comment on governmental regulations or policies other than those that directly affected their industries or companies. but many lead global companies. Company responses have not followed a uniform playbook. When governmental policy undercuts such values, companies feel obligated to speak up.

CEO 8

CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. The disparities in the perceived importance of these issues could affect how directors prioritize and choose to address risks to the company.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8