HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Web Developer. Many web developers work remotely, helping design, develop, test, and maintain websites and apps for different customers. Sites like Upwork, and freelancer.com let individuals advertise their services, such as web developers, copywriters, graphic designers, etc. Social Media Manager. Event Planner.

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Advertising Press Release Travel Career 52

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2022

Web Developer. Many web developers work remotely, helping design, develop, test, and maintain websites and apps for different customers. Sites like Upwork, and freelancer.com let individuals advertise their services, such as web developers, copywriters, graphic designers, etc. Social Media Manager. Event Planner.

Advertising 52

Advertising Press Release Travel Career 52

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. While historically easier said than done, the work this company did to increase certainty and decrease risk in new product development is increasingly feasible.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

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 Markoff first shopped her chocolates to Neiman Marcus who originally gave her a weak response. Katrina didn’t give up.

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Press Release Magazine Entrepreneur Discount 133

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours. As you can see, offering a number of choices at every turn allows those involved to retain some measure of control, which is essential to keeping the situation from escalating.

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Press Release Discount Video PR 207

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

The overall effect of personality on lifetime earnings is large – in the same order of magnitude as the average lifetime earnings difference between high school and college graduates in my sample: over $1.2 Interestingly, emotional stability and openness to experience were not significantly related to lifetime earnings in this sample.

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Sample Education Bottom-up Influence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. Note to U.S.

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Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Data from the U.S.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We found that over 10% of the people in our sample reported working in a job field that did not match their field of education. Over 30% of the people in our sample reported that their job was only somewhat related to their field of study. These results have important implications for managers and policy makers.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Engineering Sample Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. There was quite a range, though: the youngest in our sample was 32 years old when he became COO, while the oldest three took office at the age of 58. What role does he or she play in the organization?

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

To test the reliability of your scores, answer the following questions: Is your sample controlled and stable? Sample variations can generate huge swings in scores and feedback. There's a mathematical basis for this number: so large a sample creates confidence that score variation reflects real differences rather than random swings.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers. In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders.

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CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. Of all the originating organizations that appeared in our sample of career histories, TFA appeared the most frequently - about 15% of the ventures had at least one founder who worked for TFA at some point.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

Execution 9

Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The Vanguard Group, for example, makes a point of interviewing a sample of clients who have convinced others to bring business to the firm. Some utilities help customers finance, install and maintain their own systems for generating power and heat through solar roof panels. Those stories might come from mundane, everyday service.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Decentralization Sample Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. “Ahmed has promised samples for the new line on the Clarkson account, but his order exceeds the limits accounting set, so we need Damon’s signoff, and he won’t give it.”

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Sample stocks in the ETF are the 100 companies which have the highest social contribution per share, and they are selected from a larger sample of about 300 companies that release their social responsibility reports and reassessed annually. Eccles is a professor of management practice at HBS. Going further, the SSE raised 2.8

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Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Over time, financial literacy increases; in our sample, it was highest for people in their sixties. So it makes sense for the old to share their insights about finances with the young. What might this look like? What the Old Can Learn from the Young. How to build diverse networks.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Self-aware Reputation Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

While activism takes many different forms, it usually begins with investors holding private conversations with company management on the need to change a process, business model, or management practice. SASB develops industry-by-industry accounting standards that identify the material ESG issues that could have financial implications.

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Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. We argue in favor of abolishing pay-for-performance for top managers altogether.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Fueled by passion and purpose, they produced and tested foundation samples on their own time. Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The survey results show that no single management skill stands out above the rest. Respondents indicated that founders need to be management jacks-of-all-trades, so to speak. The non-MBA founders shared the view that it is very important for future leaders of technology ventures to build a wide range of management skills.

Engineering 13

Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. A specialist background to lead innovation is worth a 4% better shareholder return every year for 20 years, compared to other pharma CEOs in our sample.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

Finally, in some cases you can get what you need just by sampling a MOOC, watching a video here or there to get the specific knowledge that you need. Many of the platforms will let you do this sampling for free, though others, like Lynda.com, run on a subscription basis. In many cases this option is also available for free.

Career 8

Career Sample Learning-by-Doing Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. But it turned out that the analysts had selected a biased sample of older cars with higher-than-average maintenance costs among cars of the same age.

Technology 8

Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Hanna, a finance director at an international home care retailer, works long hours. Is it working long hours that increases our risk of developing health issues? We think that this arsenal of resources may help engaged workaholics prevent initial health complaints from developing into more severe health risks.

Stress 15

Stress Long-term Report Motivation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

They have given their social media staff a clear mission and a great deal of autonomy; the account’s managers chat with customers, offer up front to solve problems, and empathize with frustrated travelers. After all, management exists to transform corporations into more efficient machines. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recommend you devote the bulk of your marketing budget to developing excellent content and lots of it, with some additional funds set aside for design, production, and maintenance. Related posts: What are the Best Ways to Create, Manage, and Build a Brand? Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, or Custom Content Management?

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Press Release Discount Content Directory 145

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

But affiliation doesn’t guarantee enthusiasm, as this sample of survey comments reveals: “On sabbatical from the Democratic party”; “Republican, unless they keep acting like goofballs”; and “Independent (especially this year!).

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8