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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

We gave leaders the Hogan Development Survey (HDS), a personality inventory specifically designed for work applications, and looked at how they scored on four personality tendencies: bold, colorful, mischievous, and imaginative. So the first goal of our research was to establish a measure of charismatic personality.

Charisma 8

Charisma Self-aware Sample Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

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. In particular, no paper examines detailed levers of value creation across financial, governance, and operational engineering.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The operative word in that sentence is “founding” or in my case “co-founding.” ” My partner David and I developed the idea for our company 10 years ago, and I took over as CEO several years ago. Although, to be fair, I did not survey these deputies, so I don’t know if they’d agree.).

Company 10

Company Entrepreneur Survey CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. That''s 72 million jobs just from this small sample. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Our data include about 950 businesses.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Instead, customers fill out style surveys, provide measurements, offer up Pinterest boards, and send in personal notes. For instance, in analyzing a five-year sample of almost 1,150 papers, we identified at least 12 techniques, visible in the chart below, that can be readily applied and combined with each other within a process.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. 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. But for most firms, the paper’s findings are worth bearing in mind.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

For example, a survey of more than 1,000 car buyers in Germany showed that only 5% would prefer a fully autonomous vehicle. Based on this cross-case analysis, we found that operational safety and data security are decisive factors in getting people to trust technology.

Technology 10

Technology Transportation Influence Resistance 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Eli Lilly and Company measures the health of its alliances with a “Voice of the Alliance Survey.” ” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. The results were fascinating. Why does this happen?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Survey Strategic Fit 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. The partner confidentially approached the software CEO for advice on how they developed and trained their own staff over the years.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 15

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. In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period. Don't do that! So trust, but verify.

Incentives 11

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2018

Some evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are more at risk of burnout because they tend to be extremely passionate about work and more socially isolated, have limited safety nets, and operate in high uncertainty. A look at our survey questions: We asked respondents to rate their agreement with each of the following statements on a 1-5 scale.

Entrepreneur 11

Entrepreneur Career Report Stress 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Based on an online survey of approximately 18,000 men and women with college degree working full-time in white-collar professions, our data shows that, for both men and women, credibility derives from adapting one’s style to local norms of executive presence. . reveals to be a core competency of global executives.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Emotional Intelligence Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

To build new technologies your frontline employees will use and trust — tools that will actually improve the customer experience — you need to ask for their feedback at every stage of development. For example, at Verizon we recently developed and introduced two new technologies to our call centers.

Tools 8

Tools Call Center Technology Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

There is a new generation of real-time employee opinion tools that are starting to replace old-fashioned employee opinion surveys — tools that tell you far more than just what employees think every year. Developing these sorts of metrics will not be quick or easy. Capture Reference Data About Current Change Projects.

Company 8

Company Management Metrics Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. These standards were developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy, which oversees teaching, training, coaching, and supporting Mayo’s 60,000 staff to improve patient outcomes, safety, and service. Moving Ahead.

Quality 8

Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

At Mayo Clinic, surgeons who perform lumpectomies or partial mastectomies for breast cancer work during the operation with the Frozen Section Pathology Lab to determine whether all the cancer has been removed. Yes, 20 minutes is valuable extra time in an operating room while the surgeon and staff wait for pathology findings.

Health Care 8

Health Care Business Model Mayo Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In a staggering blow to the ideal of socially-responsible business, American adults who took our surveys for pay consistently indicated that they expect harmful business practices to increase profit. In the sample of firms we used, KLD scores were positively correlated with firms’ incomes.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

Some are actual housework — getting the coffee for the morning stand-up, or cleaning up after a lunch meeting — and some are the unsung operational or administrative work that keeps the company rolling along. Prescriptive stereotypes also operate by race. We call them office housework.

Management 15

Management Committee Diversity Survey 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

We found that 49 percent of the leaders surveyed in the study reported a gap between their organization’s ability to formulate and communicate a vision and strategy and its ability to deliver results. operation and then over to Japan where they were reviewed by a special committee – which would then have to communicate back to the U.S.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

In 2012, we (in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick & Struggles) surveyed more than 1,000 corporate directors across the globe and broke out the FOB boards from the non-FOB boards. We surveyed more than 1,000 board members in 59 countries. Methodology. Boards Leadership Succession planning'

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

Surveys are useful for obtaining quick feedback from a large number of customers but may lack the depth we need. Add these encounters up across a week and across a whole sample, and you can assess experience share and experience effectiveness. You can work out what aspects of your operations you should be spending on.

Brand 15

Brand Survey Call Center Sample 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Insist upon a culture that allows people to constantly challenge the most fundamental beliefs, hypotheses, and assumptions that they have about your organization, the industry in which it does business, and the world in which it operates. The established “rules” under which you or your organization generally operates?

Creativity 8

Creativity Trends Uncertainty Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

While surveys of administrators at U.S. A 2017 survey of roughly 900 locum tenens performed by Staffcare, a U.S.-based based locum tenens staffing agency, provides some basic insights into who locum tenens are: Three-quarters of surveyed physicians were 51 years of age or older, 65% had been in practice for at least 21 years.

Quality 8

Quality Survey Short-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We have seen firsthand that an Ivy-draped diploma doesn’t guarantee someone will be good at the job, but even so, we were surprised to uncover that 8% of CEOs in our sample did not complete college at all. So how did the 8% of our CEO sample make it to the top without a college degree? The company was sold for nearly $50 million.

CEO 8

CEO Sample Industry Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Instead, according to new research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), the fundamental issue is the health care industry’s failure to develop a nuanced understanding of, and commitment to, women as consumers and decision makers. Fifty-nine percent of women in our multi-market sample are making health care decisions for others.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

According to a survey of social media users by the joint Nielsen-McKinsey venture NM Incite, 33% of respondents say they'd recommend a brand that offered a quick but ineffective response, nearly double the number (17%) who'd recommend a brand providing a slow but effective solution.

Balanced Scorecard 9

Balanced Scorecard McKinsey Media Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. More than 4,000 board members of companies headquartered in 60 countries responded to the survey. Are corporate boards as polarized politically as the general population?

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8