Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Traditionally, cyber security research has focused on technical solutions to specific threats: for example, how to filter spam or protect PCs and mobile devices against the latest malware. Diversity is just one of many strategies that biological systems have adopted to protect themselves and continue functioning in the face of attack.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. She backed up these general statements with a specific example of “resolving unexpected issues in a timely manner.” Example #2: Breaking into a new industry. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In particular, I’d like to focus on three things Avaya did that other companies can learn from: Treat Innovation as a Risk-Management Exercise. If customers didn’t like Avaya’s services, it was a bigger risk to stick to the game plan than it was to roll the dice on some new approaches.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Metrics Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

In addition, shareholders don’t necessarily want directors and management to speak “with one voice” (another commonly cited reason for assigning shareholder engagement to the CEO) and value diversity of views that may suggest a board is looking at important matters holistically and has not succumbed to groupthink.

CEO 8

CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Examples: an accounting manager could shadow HR for a day or an person in operations could learn more about the sales process. For example, it’s easy to cross the line from confidence to arrogance and from passionate to volatile. As you can see by the diversity of the responses, there really is no “one right answer”.

Leadership Development 283

Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. And will the intensity and focus of top management remain in 12 or 18 months when the current crisis has passed? Whether its example will have preventative impact on other mega-banks is, of course, also unknown. Boards Ethics Risk management'

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

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.

Report 12

Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

To counter those cohesion and performance risks, managing such a globally-dispersed team requires deliberate planning that helps bridge those boundaries. Typically people talk about the importance of stressing commonalities and similarities in the context of diversity of any sort. Stressing differences.

Globalization 12

Globalization Team Stress Types of Knowledge 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

This is one of the reasons research has found that in order to experience the benefits of diversity (better risk management, higher creativity, etc) on a board you need three women; one or even two aren''t enough to create real change.

Cost 9

Cost Brand Media COO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

So, for example, a principal investigator whose payload was allocated 10 pounds of mass on the spacecraft but only required one was free to trade the other nine pounds for other resources. The most brilliant person without a respectful, collaborative attitude is a failure waiting to happen.

Project 16

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

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.

Management 8

Management Core Competence Project Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

So, for example, a principal investigator whose payload was allocated 10 pounds of mass on the spacecraft but only required one was free to trade the other nine pounds for other resources. The most brilliant person without a respectful, collaborative attitude is a failure waiting to happen.

Project 14

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. In this section are examples of crises that were handled well, thus increasing public trust and respect for their organizations. Most often (85% of the time), they can be heeded, planned for averted. by Hank Moore.

Crisis 72

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

The Kumbh Mela authorities put down some bright lines on who gets to go where, when, and how — for example, rules that govern people's movements during some religious days — and some rules are determined by long-standing customs. To those interested in how cooperation among diverse groups happens, this is a fortuitous setting.

Long-term 9

Long-term Engineering Comparison Cooper 9

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?”

Conference 8

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. For example, attracting and retaining top talent and global competitive threats were leading concerns for both.

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 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. In response, many companies have created their own translator academies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

One European fund manager, for example, seeks to meet every individual nominated for the board at their investee firms. To start, the board should ensure that the compensation committee is suitably independent and diverse so that its members will be attuned to sentiments on pay inside and outside the firm. Boards of Directors.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

The risks are greater than we realize because the availability of any of these key resources deeply affects the availability of the others. Together, these diverse players will help governments, companies and communities work together to manage the nexus.

Energy 12

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

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.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

The Obama administration pushed regulatory proposals for cybersecurity infrastructure in its early years, but eventually pivoted to a more effective risk-management approach. For example, many IoT devices share default user names and passwords that are well known and can be found with a quick Google search.

Hotels 10

Hotels Company Technology Software 10