Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. Collaborate with colleagues within department and represent department across entire organization. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Example #2: Breaking into a new industry. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Because better risk management in the future turns on corporate behavior, not just more regulation, and because that risk management is going to be driven from the top of corporations, the answers to these questions of leadership responsibility and accountability for organizational action and culture are of critical importance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. These business leaders must, however, be aided by highly competent legal, financial, risk, compliance, audit and technology staff. And will the intensity and focus of top management remain in 12 or 18 months when the current crisis has passed?

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

New findings from the Project Management Institute (PMI), suggests that organizations that focus on excellence in project management execution can reduce risk, improve performance, save money, and achieve a greater return on investment.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

New findings from the Project Management Institute (PMI), suggests that organizations that focus on excellence in project management execution can reduce risk, improve performance, save money, and achieve a greater return on investment.

Project 14

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One such skill is portfolio management , the application of systematic tools for reducing risks and maximizing the return on investments. You then manage the risk and return in the portfolio by adjusting the mix and amount of investments, since it is unlikely that all of them will rise or fall to the same degree simultaneously.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Crises can and will happen to good organizations. So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Any company or organization is like a tree. In this section are examples of crises that were handled well, thus increasing public trust and respect for their organizations.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

Despite the known benefits of having an extensive and diverse network, many people “shy away from the opportunity to create new connections because networking makes them feel inauthentic and physically dirty ,” says Gino. For example, you might ask: “Which work project are you most excited about right now?”

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Conference How To Venture Capitalist Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

At Cisco, we are learning to answer these questions through three initiatives designed to broaden our knowledge base by bringing multiple perspectives together: embracing diversity within our walls; reaching out across industries; and building partnerships with former (and current) competitors. Internal diversity.

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Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Where can organizations find translators? Artur Debat/Getty Images.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In the business community, just as in a natural ecosystem, an individual organism (in this case a company) is vulnerable to changes in the availability of these systemic inputs. The risks are greater than we realize because the availability of any of these key resources deeply affects the availability of the others.

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Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

And we don't just adjust perceptions of our own safety, but of others' as well: for example, motorists have been found to pass more closely to bicyclists wearing helmets than those that don't, betting (incorrectly) that helmets make cyclists safer than they actually do. One of the pioneers in this effort is, counterintuitively, the U.S.

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Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

According to a recent study by IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute, 80% of organizations do not routinely test their IoT apps for security vulnerabilities. The Obama administration pushed regulatory proposals for cybersecurity infrastructure in its early years, but eventually pivoted to a more effective risk-management approach.

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