HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Ernie is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employer in the world. The HR Digest: What is diversity to you? Our goal is to work shoulder to shoulder with each other to drive missionary change. .

Diversity 52

Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Another aspect that needs to be factored into the decisioning process is the source of the input. What would happen if no decision is made?

Blog 416

Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. And many diversity programs fail. I asked three questions: Why do you care about diversity?

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

This includes sales , marketing, customer support, pricing, and revenue management, distinctly mapping out the path to sustainable, profitable growth. A CRO must possess a diverse skill set to deliver on various responsibilities, from revenue growth management to strategic initiatives.

Long-term 235

Long-term Due Diligence Quality Leadership Styles 235

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 17, 2012

It’s the reason why some companies have managed to thrive and expand their market base despite the uncertainties present in today’s global economy, because they’re not simply reacting to what’s going on around them. Have you defined for your team what success means for your organization?

Goal 189

Goal Short-term Long-term Marketing 189

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. The evidence is clear that more diverse and inclusive organizations are more creative, innovative, and higher performing. We’re a people-driven company and want to be an organization that attracts and retains the best talent, across all dimensions of diversity.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Add in more diverse identities and the disparity becomes even more apparent. Low diversity could be a result of bias in hiring, unfair recruiting criteria, insufficient diversity in recruitment sources, etc. Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation involve a diverse workforce as well.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

A recent study in the UK, for instance, shows that 3 out of 4 judges, 2 out of 3 doctors, 3 out of 4 finance directors, and 1 out of 2 chief executives come from fairly well-off families. Companies truly interested in hiring people from diverse backgrounds must abandon the conventional practice of filtering by résumé.

Diversity 10

Diversity Reputation Talent Management Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Since the mandate of the board is to represent shareholders’ interests, shareholder votes stand out as a natural performance metric.

Company 9

Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Senior leaders from all of the universities and hospitals came together, in an unprecedented collaboration, to create universal employee metrics that tracked employment goals and outcomes across the institutions so that they could better understand the hiring landscape, and design interventions to better equip residents for jobs.

Metrics 9

Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle. Mobilizing resources.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.” At that point, Alphatech’s management reassessed its strategy and sales approach. Management first evaluated who were, and who were not, good customers.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. Cold" metrics of monetary return are giving way to "warm" metrics of non-monetary return such as happiness, satisfaction, and influence.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Their ideas for products, services and management practices may not survive market tests. Some have decades of experience in their industry.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the other hand, the metrics of 21st century female professional and economic empowerment have become a tide. But there are gender-based distinctions in how men and women were able to regulate and manage their emotional response to these stimuli. I'd like to think that today, with U.S.

Bottom-up 13

Bottom-up Metrics Construction Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

While the score reflects a number of significant metrics, common sense dictates that Justin Bieber might be effective in influencing conversations around pop culture, but less effective in areas such as finance or politics. It's a more open and diverse model that empowers even small groups to make a big difference. Credibility.

Influence 15

Influence Participative Media System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. The for-benefit movement, too, can catalyze the development of a support ecosystem (public policy, capital markets, standards, metrics, etc.) treating suppliers as partners).

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The meeting is to provide team members with up-to-date information to run their own departments effectively, to identify and gain diverse perspectives on emerging cross-departmental issues, to align around action plans, and to create clear accountability for action. Nothing else. identify issues, develop solutions, make decision, etc.)

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. Conglomerates, after all, are just a management tool.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. These include infant safety and injury prevention, social work, legal advocacy, case management, tutoring, fitness classes, nutrition and lactation, mental health, and dental care.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

There are over two thousand consumer-focused subscription businesses capitalizing upon customers’ diverse tastes. Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders?

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

I saw this first hand while researching the hiring practices of top-tier investment banks, management consulting firms, and law firms. One banking recruitment manager summarized the typical approach this way: I’m just being really honest, it [an application] pretty much goes into a black hole.

EPS 8

EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

the same pay mix, metrics, plan type, and payout curve in every country) is beneficial : “A global plan aligns with the needs of global customers and creates uniformly effective and fair compensation. It provides control over sales incentive spending around the world, and it simplifies plan management and administration.”

Globalization 8

Globalization System Incentives Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

That’s just the beginning of the confusion—even if you accepted that such diverse investments should all be grouped into one category, how do you even measure and compare impact anyway? Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g., cash, fixed income, private equity, etc.)

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. 3) That your intern can manage your content strategy. Quantity of content produced should never be a metric - it is quality that should override.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105