Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

I was speaking at The Economist's Diversity Summit last month in London where most of the talk was about gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and scorecards. A typical syllabus among Heads of Diversity. As most executive teams look at their talent pipelines and managers, they know they are not well prepared.

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Diversity Globalization Short-term Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Take Wells Fargo as an example: Managers were rewarded for the number of accounts they opened and managed.

Ethics 11

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure. Emphasizing compliance with a plan can, under stable conditions, accelerate fruition of a strategy. Insight center.

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. We also looked at results by industry and region.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

“Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever. He is a licensed as a Professional Engineer by the State of Tennessee.

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Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. The board should step out of its traditional focus on governance and compliance and be more involved in setting the corporate value system.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. So instead of creating another pill dispenser, it launched a compliance-enhancing system. Weekly e-mails with detailed reports can also be set up, creating a comprehensive system of medication management. Operations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

Even as federal efforts like a national Cap and Trade program have stalled, for instance, states and cities are introducing new rules of their own: four states are currently implementing organic waste diversion programs and Los Angeles has just implemented a plastic bag ban.

Operations 8

Operations Constraint System Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We were on ambulance diversion for at least eight of every 24 hours, often longer. Other local EDs actually had betting pools on how long it would take us to go back on diversion after we came off. Virtually no patients leave our ED without being seen, and we are never, ever on ambulance diversion.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

The motivations behind Russian hackers are the most diverse of any team with government connections. These hackers also modified Yahoo’s search engine results to further their own criminal goals. The techniques in the Russian hacker tool kit are diverse. Insight Center. Getting Cybersecurity Right. Sponsored by Accenture.

Compliance 9

Compliance Tactics Diversity CIO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. For more on what the law does, go here. Further Reading.

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Banking Crisis System Compliance 8