Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. It’s actually hard to believe that a progressive company like Apple has taken so long to add a woman to its board of directors. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Liz Smith – Chairman and CEO, Bloomin’ Brands (Outback, Flemings, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill) – one of the world’s largest casual dining companies. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

It’s amusing, and disheartening, when you realize your dedication, smart work, energy, – all the things you put into your career daily – are ONLY for the sake of performing a duty and receiving a paycheck. No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Looking at your company from your clients’ eyes will give you perspective on what’s important to them. It’s how you achieve those goals that matters most in terms of time, expense and energy. Value Proposition: What are you really offering your clients? What solutions are you selling? Use lingo with which they identify.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. As the scale and scope of our company have expanded over the years, so has our focus on taking meaningful steps to improve the world in which we live. The HR Digest: C. Robinson and in global logistics. Within C.H. What DE&I strategies have helped C.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? As a backlash against increasingly international trends, relationships matter more.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. Foremost, the company has to have a culture of openness and employee-centric. In the U.S.

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Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. In the process, the company became better acquainted with its customers – what they liked to buy and how they liked to shop.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Silos can form in any company, regardless of how it’s organized, whether that’s around different products, different regions, or different types of customers. When a company reorganizes, it’s often because the strategy has also changed. Lateral coordination is accomplished rather easily at the top of a company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That isn’t easy, but the payoff is worth it: Our most recent research shows that companies with excellent marketing capabilities outperform the market with 2-3X greater revenue growth. Yet, only 30 percent of companies believe they understand their customers’ needs well enough to identify what initiatives will drive growth.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The quickening pace extends to firms’ lifespan; we found that companies’ lifespans decreased substantially in each new decade of listing from the 1960s. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

After all, tough conversations “are not black swans,” says Jean-Francois Manzoni, professor of human resources and organizational development at INSEAD. “We’re a small company and all really close—you know about people’s families and you hear about their vacations. “We had to move on.”

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Who doesn’t love a business hack that expends very little time, energy, or invested capital?! It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. I recently talked with the Chief Human Resource Officer of a significant player in the insurance industry about this exact topic.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Luckily, this single contract was pivotal in helping HarQen reposition themselves from a technology-driven voice response company, to a market-driven recruiting systems one.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

A 2008 survey of chief marketing officers and brand managers by the Association of National Advertisers found that 64% say their brands do not influence decisions made at their companies. Smart companies form brand councils to meet this leadership imperative. Smart companies form brand councils to meet this leadership imperative.

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