Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

More than 33 percent of HR professionals surveyed view their organization’s leaders as not capable of meeting each of these challenges. Three times more likely to incorporate an integrated learning journey versus a course-list approach when developing their leaders. Only 18 percent identified their leaders as “very capable.” .

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Human Capital Conference Metrics Talent Management 103

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

Meticulously designed marketing campaigns are a relic. As research on disruption and market transitions suggests, you’re better off these days if you can quickly identify and adapt to changes in your environment. Many marketers have built their careers on following a series of highly detailed plans based on copious data.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Millennials and Generation Z, who together make up nearly half of the full-time workforce in the U.S.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Millennials and Generation Z, who together make up nearly half of the full-time workforce in the U.S.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Our traditional market research is telling us something else. This story was inspired by " Forecasting private consumption : survey-based indicators vs. Google trends," by Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt, in the Journal of Forecasting (September 2011). Still — it's nothing compared to the cost of corporate market research.".

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Cost Marketing Management Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This demographic trend has important implications for the labor market. Our data came from five biennial surveys conducted between 2002 and 2011 for the English Longitudinal Study of Aging funded by the UK government. Aging individuals are not always able to find satisfactory outlets for their abilities.

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Quality Career Entrepreneur Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Companies spend an enormous amount of time and dollars on market research, and all too often it disappoints. Even when there is a clear winner, that top-rated concept often bombs when it actually hits the market. Purchase intent is notoriously overstated in survey responses, showing little correlation with actual sales performance.

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Survey Marketing Banking Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. We also find that companies in developed areas plan to hire in other developed regions (e.g., Asia into North America). Methodology.

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Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

To be sure, labor market conditions are important. In our research paper , which was published in Organization Science, we used survey data collected by the National Science Foundation and analyzed the responses from more than 25,000 U.S. The lack of jobs in their area of education must have forced these workers into a mismatch, right?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. For comparison, the employee sample identified as low performers had an average network size of 20. But are these measurement methods still valid?

Influence 12

Influence Market Segmentation Software Comparison 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

As part of our study, we conducted an online survey of more than 5,000 U.S. We also supplemented the survey with well-known brand rankings, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and an analysis of their marketing expenditures and strategies. The whole focus is getting you to buy the product with samples and professional makeovers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

But as developed nations restructure from manufacturing to knowledge and services, my bet is on the moms, or more specifically, women — and men who can think like them. While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A Harvard Business School marketing professor named John Deighton once came up with a vivid analogy to illustrate this and show why a business should sub-segment its customer base. Still, companies often make the mistake of developing products and features to appeal to the mean. There's no such thing as an average customer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

Different surveys show that in 2014, 36% of global employers reported talent shortages , the highest percentage since 2007, and in a more recent 2015 survey, 73% of CEOs reported being concerned about the availability of key skills. Marketing is also seen as playing a more important role in shaping the employer brand.

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Brand CEO Reputation Advertising 8

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.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. According to a recent survey, 76% of senior executives reported that their organizations needed to develop global leadership capabilities , but a mere 7% felt they were doing so effectively. Some 30% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Experimentation-oriented organizations, one-quarter of our survey sample, are more than 4 times as likely to have achieved greater than 20% growth over the past year compared to others in the sample. This synchronicity can result in stronger organizational performance, according to our data.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank. And in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

corporations (including Amazon , Nike , and MasterCard ) that increasing discrimination will leave them unable to recruit, retain, and develop talent. These effects persisted at least until the end of our sample period on manager characteristics in 1938. There is no evidence that these firms were hit by other shocks after 1933.

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Price Policies Sample CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

In addition, we’ve conducted a separate survey of contract workers to learn more about what they’re looking for in a role. Based on what we’ve learned, here are some tips that can help recruiters and hiring managers alike better understand the contractor mindset and develop strategies to integrate them into their workforce.

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Real Estate Health Care Analysis Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Where was its leadership bench? Methodology.

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

companies are discovering the appeal and opportunity of talent in emerging markets. What does it take for emerging-market female talent to break into the executive ranks of a U.S.-based More and more U.S. based multinational company? based multinational company? “I do put on my cowboy hat at headquarters,” she says.

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Core Competence Emotional Intelligence Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

One musician was described as having inborn ability (the “natural”), whereas the other musician was described as having worked hard to develop her ability (the “striver”). Perhaps the natural can more easily develop new capabilities or adapt to new scenarios.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Proposal Participative Sample 10

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 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

That appears to be the case with the offshoring of research and development, according to a new paper from the Center for European Economic Research. As global competition has pressured firms to move portions of their businesses overseas, some have gone so far as to offshore research, development, and design.

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Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Take our survey and let us know. Of the 82 leaders we surveyed, 32% said they had turned down an international assignment because they didn’t want to move their families, and 28% said they had done so to protect their marriages. However, the executives we surveyed and interviewed have advised against moving teenagers.

Human Capital 11

Human Capital Succession Survey Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

That is, you get a meaningless result if you look at too small a comparison group, and an equally meaningless answer if the sample is too large and heterogeneous. ABC and Acme appear to be doing quite well relative to the market: If you make a simple comparison, they’re around the 80 th percentile. How is this possible?

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Company Comparison Benchmarking Sample 8

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

JUNE 18, 2015

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. In operational engineering, PE firms develop industry and operating expertise that they bring to bear to add value to their portfolio companies.

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CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Eli Lilly and Company measures the health of its alliances with a “Voice of the Alliance Survey.” Sample questions include: “Knowledge and information from our partner is freely shared with us” and “Our partner openly listens to our ideas and opinions.” The results were fascinating.

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Productivity Products Survey Strategic Fit 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. ITT conducted a survey titled "The Value of Water" highlighting both how much water we waste and exploring the critical gap between the current price and the real value of water. billion per year.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

And the things of interest to managers, such as the size of a market, the effects of an advertising campaign, and the true costs associated with a poor quality product, are far more complex than time, weight, and distance. People lie in surveys, countries manipulate numbers to look good , weather vanes fill up with sand, and so on.

Advertising 8

Advertising Collins Wilde Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Leading the list are the economy; the regulatory environment; and cybersecurity, according to our global survey of over 4,000 corporate directors, conducted in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation, led by Susan Stautberg, Spencer Stuart, led by Julie Hembrock Daum, and independent researcher Deborah Bell. With the 2016 U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

the NFL’s yearly list of “top 10 NFL rivalries”), those made by 56 NFL fans we surveyed who demonstrated expertise, and the count of Google search results for terms such as “New England Patriots versus New York Jets rivalry.” Second, we surveyed participants after the competition to understand their thinking.

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Problem was, a marketing Senior Vice President thought these would distract customers from completing their purchase and didn't think Linden had proof it would work. As a result, hands-on modeling has been pushed up earlier in the product development cycle. A business drama ensued; classic "gut versus data" stuff.

Execution 15

Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

In a cross-industry survey of 8 firms, we asked over 200 innovation-focused practitioners to review a list of established and emerging technologies (a list that included Apple products, Netflix, eBay and several others) and then tell us why any item on the list eventually became successful. We wanted to learn more.

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