Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

Who is running and leading the companies that make the products women are buying for themselves and their families? In the past, business was about cooperation, and we cooperated because we had to. Men are great at cooperating. This brings us to the other side of the equation. Increasingly, it’s women. Passion counts.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“ESG is following something of a similar pattern to diversity, which in the beginning was largely virtue signaling to make it look like organizations really cared,” Columbia University’s Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says. Spirit of cooperation. ” Values-based leadership. Global reach. Recognize an added value.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 7, 2021

Diversity is generally accepted as a good thing, with MIT research highlighting how diversity within our organizations can boost the bottom line of those businesses. If coordinating across global teams is the key to untapping the benefits of diversity, a high degree of “global fluency” is likely to be crucial.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Having a diverse workforce has numerous benefits to an organization, with MIT research highlighting that the most diverse workplaces tend to be the most profitable. A study from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business took this a step further and explored the impact of class diversity on the success of a team.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 15, 2010

In addition to being a well-organized, clear writer, Morris is a Renaissance man who always sprinkles his writings and interviews with thoughtful insights drawn from remarkably diverse fields of knowledge. Check out his book reviews and interviews at this link and you’ll see what what I mean. Military Gamification in Everything?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

Its diversified galaxy of brands for man and beast are iconic -- from chocolate favorites like M&M's and Snickers to Wrigley's Juicy Fruit and Lifesavers to pet-care products like Pedigree and Whiskas, as well as Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. It employs 72,000 people, more than a third of them in America. . Barbara A.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

They engineer productive collisions of people to tackle important topics, through clearer questions, challenging conversations, and listening with curiosity. And their conference was visibly diverse (I later learned the demographic ratios were 50% women, 30% people of color, 25% LGBT, with a range of ages from 20 to 70). Skill sets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

These ideas are the seeds of innovation : the intellectual foundation for any new products and services that enable some organizations to gain a competitive advantage over others. This mismanagement of innovation is further exacerbated by the fact that managing creatives tend to require special attention and consideration.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. Have you actually seen this done?”. The skepticism is warranted.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. Articulate the larger purpose the enterprise serves, and become known for the idea, not just specific products currently offered. Artisans' cooperatives help market products from diverse artists. Following Hurricane Sandy in the U.S.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. Deb Calvert ( People First Productivity Solutions ) The master skill for leaders is ability to learn. They can be learned, absorbed, honed. Leaders are learners.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Take the example of a dairy cooperative I worked with recently. It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. Once it adopted the six-step method, these outcomes were identified as “reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity and innovation.”

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Five decades of research shows the huge impact of organizational culture on outcomes like Return on Investment, stock prices, service/quality levels, productivity, sales, profitability, cost-effectiveness, and similar results. How much diversity is encouraged? “Magnet cultures” attract and retain the best people.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse. And that's because some of the best paths to encourage innovation are surprisingly simple. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

In 1970, the year I was born, Guyana’s dictator declared the country a cooperative republic and deepened relations with Cuba, North Korea, and the Soviet Union. This is the kind of diverse team that CEOs covet and that builds great businesses. Worries and logistical distractions hurting overall productivity is one thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collaboration’s promise of greater innovation and better risk mitigation can go unfulfilled because of cultural norms that say everyone should be in agreement, be supportive, and smile all the time. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed. Dropping a diversity initiative onto these types of workplaces is unlikely to create meaningful change.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

By going beyond mere cooperation and coordination, collective work produces more innovative and productive outcomes that exceed the simple sum of individual efforts. A team is a group of people who do collective work and are mutually committed to a common team purpose and challenging goals related to that purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

If he had taken his research out of the office, Mark would have found that Jennifer felt very strongly about her local identity and bought her vegetables from a local organic cooperative; at the same time, she was concerned about global issues and invested her savings in Indiegogo , a global crowdfunding platform.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

” Organizational culture is assumed to be important to making sure that employees are happy and productivity is good. As such, it is constantly changing as people contest and innovate upon the rules and ideas that constrain their actions and ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? The value of diverse relationships lies not only in what your contacts can do for you, but also on what you can do for them.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

A professional with proven ability to manage change and work across diverse areas, as required, can be a great asset to an organization. Or perhaps someone who can spend some days behind their desk and other days in the field, equally productive in both environments. Continually assess how happy you are in your current role.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Women are offered lower pay and less institutional research funding when they join a faculty, and they continue to earn considerably less than men—even among those at the same level and with comparable productivity. This can hamper cooperative parenting and make it harder for women to stay in the field. What Can Be Done?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

A couple of years ago I was invited to facilitate an offsite training for the diversity committee of a Fortune 500 company. In an era in which “diversity” has become a buzzword in the business world, the firm’s interest in the topic was both admirable and understandable.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Video production companies treat only a few of the essential people skills, and their approach seems mostly to entertain and motivate, not to teach how. I’ve read dozens of books on people skills, and the best of these focus on only a handful of key skills. One key area of leadership skill involves coaching.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Multitasking has evolved from a distraction and diversion to a financial focus wherever digital content lives.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Nugent, and Hoda Selim, explores the topic through the particular lens of the six Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

They argue that we cannot cooperate with each other to solve our major problems because our institutions and businesses are saturated with a competitive spirit. Thus, a post-scarcity world, premised on cooperation, would emerge. Here’s why: New technologies come to consumers as finished products that can be exchanged for money.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 19, 2020

In Recovery Squandered , HBS professors explore progress on productivity over the duration of the research, and seek to identify trends in the six reports produced since 2011. Despite the consensus that change is required, however, the lack of political cooperation on the matter results in little real progress being made.

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