Women on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Catalyst has released its 2012 Financial Post 500 Women Senior Officers and Top Earners census report, which tracks women’s advancement into senior leadership positions among Canada’s Financial Post 500 companies. More than one out of three (35.9%) of public FP500 companies have no female senior officers.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2023

The potential for social mobility was far from even across different industries, however, with sectors like finance, real estate, and insurance scoring particularly poorly. If companies recruited using less elitist criteria, they believe that they would not be so limited in the pool of talent available to them.

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Class CEO Education Engineering 116

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The company hired an external counsel to conduct an investigation into the relationship that revealed “inappropriate personal communications” between Smiley and certain employees, according to a statement. The company said Smiley exhibited poor judgment. Eli Lilly and Company Corporate Center in Indianapolis. Eli Lilly & Co.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

This title demands a deep understanding of finance, and it requires, at the least, a four-year bachelor’s degree in accounting. The position of CFO demands the most considerable expertise, maximum experience, and exceptional leadership skills. Accountants deal with statistical data, such as financial records, costs, and profits.

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CFO Career Chief Financial Officer Finance 66

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

What – This is what the company does to fulfill that core belief. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. Most of these companies neglect to even mention why they do what they do. How – This is how the business fulfills that core belief.

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely. It’s either adapt to the new environment or step aside and make room for a competitor who can.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 11

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Here are the best four ways to invest or reinvest into your company to drive future success. Finding ways to streamline business processes is another good investment to make into your company. This is especially true if you send and receive assets for feedback to retailers, partners or an outsourced team.

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Succession Asset Management Software Outsourcing 67

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina Markoff launched her gourmet chocolate company in 1998. Instead, she left some of her chocolate samples with the Neiman Marcus buyer, and the next day he called and asked for more, which he left in the company’s break room. Katrina leads her company with a focus on keeping her staff creative and relaxed.

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Press Release Magazine Entrepreneur Discount 133

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. The largest 25 food and beverage companies contributed only 0.1% Set your company up for success.

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Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Companies acquire to accelerate their overall strategy and digital transformation, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for $3.7 billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. Let’s start with financing the deal. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

At least, that was what went through my mind as I sat in on a recent senior team meeting at a fast-growing, two-year-old e-commerce company. Many startup CEOs adopt this “visionary entrepreneur” leadership style. And at this stage in a company’s growth, it generally works. Build peer-to-peer networks.

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Brainstorming Leadership Delegation Self-aware 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman provide the tools for focusing on work that creates real value for customers, including: How to get people to move from ‘worm’s-eye view’ of thier jobs to a ‘bird’s-eye view’ – to understand what the company really does and the role they have in achieving results.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. In examining what took them so long to react, Stumpf’s comments portray a leadership team that refused to believe the sales fraud could be systemic in a culture such as theirs. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. In most companies there's more than a kernel of truth to these managers' complaints.

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Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

I wouldn’t be surprised if the statistics are worse in my industry, financial services, where so many companies are large, global, regulated, and structurally complex. We went from being part of a company with over 300,000 employees, at GE, to being a company of 10,000, at Synchrony Financial, seemingly overnight.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports. .”

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. About the Interviews I wanted to select a diverse group of CEOs from a range of companies that varied by size and industry. What benefits have you seen from having a more diverse company?

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 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.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. One was an “ indigenization ” program requiring companies such as Nestle, British American Tobacco, Anglo American Platininum, and Barclays, to hand majority stakes to black Zimbabweans. Years of economic mismanagement.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

An Accenture survey conducted last year found that only one in five companies said that they were “very satisfied” with the returns they’ve received from analytics to date. The retailer example mentioned above used root cause analysis to answer the question around what factors contributed to an unsuccessful marketing promotion.

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Root Cause Analysis Metrics Analysis Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Core r epositioning.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. But if board members conclude that their companys vitality depends on process improvement, what kind of CEO should they choose? We all have.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. Leadership roles and responsibilities.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team transformed Gap’s products and stores and helped the company grow faster than any other retail brand at the time. More recently, SpaceX, the rocketry and spacecraft company founded by legendary entrepreneur Elon Musk, developed its Falcon 9 launch vehicle for just over $300 million. The difference was leadership.

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Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Executive directors are usually selected for their leadership qualities; they often have experience with generalized management or leadership experience rather than narrow expertise or technical acumen. Of course, this leaves too many companies vulnerable to technology-fueled disruption.

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Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. TIAA-CREF, the big financial services company, includes customer loyalty score improvement in senior executive compensation. Phones4U, a UK mobile phone retailer, announced a big increase in the weight of Net Promoter scores in its frontline pay plan.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. But the past is merely a prologue.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Here we accept the fact that much expertise is required, and only some people in a company have it. Most companies need a strong HR. Take over responsibility and leadership.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

. “He gave me not only the gift of alignment but also the barometer against which I could measure my own progress,” said the CMO, who asked that neither she nor her company be identified by name. She explained the new vision for the marketing function: To drive the company toward more growth with more accountability.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then again, that’s sort of what Bogle’s been doing since 1974, when he took a crisis that was all about him — he’d been fired by his business partners — and somewhat inadvertently turned it into something that was about defending the interests of retail investors everywhere. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make.

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Finance Crisis Motivation CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

Good companies always strive to be better and a potentially useful way to catalyze such improvement is to consider how analyst and public criticism might be used to institute corporate change. Indeed, a 2006 campaign by the company's PR firm only made matters worse until Lee Scott, the previous CEO, temporarily turned things around.

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Engineering PR How To Reputation 14