The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2021

The impact of Covid-19 on the labor market has been undoubtedly profound, but the furloughing measures introduced by governments around the world have unquestionably kept a lid on what would otherwise have been catastrophic unemployment. in the past year involved a move to either a new industry or a new function (or both). Hidden talent.

Skills 98

Skills Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Long-term 98

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

MARCH 29, 2016

Pro-diversity messages are everywhere, whether you’re searching for a job, playing soccer , or watching the Oscars. Their point is simple: Diversity is good and we need more of it. The thinking, presumably, is that such statements will increase the diversity of their applicant pool and ultimately of their workforce.

Diversity 8

Diversity Participative Advertising Policies 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2010

This common organizational behavior ultimately corrupts decision making as senior managers make decisions based on inaccurate information derived from prospects who were not fully candid and salespeople who are not in an objective position to gather and share unbiased information.

Analysis 62

Analysis Benchmarking Newsletter Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Although our short answer was "no," we believe that managing water will become a critical business skill for the 21st century. Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. Water Resources Management Co.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market. More than three-quarters said they are on a good path to successfully compete in their local markets.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Disruptive Innovation Survey 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. If, in addition, companies are managing their underperformers out poorly, the costs rise even further. Asia into North America). Methodology.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. In M&A, we know that most deals fail to add value based on a large sample of empirical results. Since 1950, only 3 of 21 have managed the feat, and none have done so since 1978. That's about a 40% rate. But it gets worse.

Beyer 14

Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Political spending, climate change, diversity, and human rights are now some of the most frequent resolutions that investors file. While activism takes many different forms, it usually begins with investors holding private conversations with company management on the need to change a process, business model, or management practice.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

We conducted a study , recently published in the Academy of Management Journal , to learn more about a neglected dimension of board composition: the proportion of domain experts. In our sample as a whole, there was no clear relationship between the proportion of domain experts and a bank’s financial performance or survival chances.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Banking Uncertainty Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. Dig a few layers deeper into firms'' management teams and the situation doesn''t look much better. Firms based in emerging markets are starting from even farther behind at cultivating cosmopolitanism. Some 30% of U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Diversity Survey CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. In M&A, we know that most deals fail to add value based on a large sample of empirical results. Since 1950, only 3 of 21 have managed the feat, and none have done so since 1978. That's about a 40% rate. But it gets worse.

Beyer 9

Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

One of the biggest challenges facing management scientists has been the struggle to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and applicable to practicing managers. In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. spiderstock/Getty Images.

Metrics 11

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

While it’s easy to think of the female market as homogenous, our research shows that cultural, geographical, and generational differences, as well as disparate sources of wealth, all affect how women view and allocate their wealth. “Even in rural India, women manage the households and pay the bills,” she says.

Survey 8

Survey Diversity Telecommunications Focus Group 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

We constructed a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of 429 U.S. The primary benefit of this dataset is that it allows us to construct measures across a diverse set of companies based on actual employee beliefs about their employer. fairness, management quality) and connect them both to purpose and financial performance.

Company 8

Company Middle Management Survey Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Developing appropriate solutions requires understanding networks comprised of multitudes of heterogeneous layered subnetworks managed by organizations around the world, each with their own policies and incentives. In such systems, real-world experiments with limited sample sizes are often misleading and can misdirect policymakers.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

If you cast too wide a net, such as searching on "marketing" or "Atlanta" or "writing skills," you'll receive too many results that waste your time and energy. For instance, the Society for Human Resource Management has a job board, as does the American Marketing Association. Increase your niche know-how.

Directory 15

Directory How To Industry Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. We also looked at results by industry and region. Methodology.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care 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.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Emotional Intelligence Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment. Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

In both cases, senior managers had posed a seemingly simple question. Experimentation has a rich and storied history in product development and market research. And over the years, I''ve helped many others conduct simple and effective experiments in areas as diverse as customer onboarding to policy deployment.

Sample 8

Sample Information Technology Industry Sharpe 8

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Project management skills particular to social media ; such as search engine optimization (SEO), blogger influencer outreach, media buying and more. Social-specific skills ; like community management, social customer service and monitoring and a bunch more. MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global. About Mark.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

We wanted to explore whether the diversity of CEOs’ networks might affect their firms. Our work suggests that the diversity of leaders’ social networks is a key ingredient in how they grow their companies. These connections had to be at least senior managers or higher positions to be considered.

Diversity 10

Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

In 1987, when I launched Bon Appétit Management Company, I had this idea that employees deserved better than mystery meat. Together we’ve created diverse food environments that are conducive to casual collisions and a sense of community,” says Michiel Bakker , Google’s Director of Global Food Services. Take Google.

Talent Management 11

Talent Management Innovation Sample Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

” These customer-praising marketing messages are part of a broader trend in “corporate societal marketing,” which aim to emphasize companies’ social efforts to consumers. We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults.

Ethics 9

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

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. His next book, Intrapreneurship: Managing Ideas within the Organization, will be released in 2011. A business drama ensued; classic "gut versus data" stuff.

Execution 14

Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. So what happened?

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

of senior management and executive roles of S&P 500 firms, 2.2% We sought to understand the barriers they faced, their strategies for ascending through the organization, and the tools they used to manage significant organizational change efforts and navigate career risks. Currently, they make up 12.7% of the U.S. corporations.

Execution 11

Execution Strategy Self-aware Career 11

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. Strategic Challenges and Talent Management. Director Profiles.

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

I have found that the way we answer it has important implications for how men feel at work, and also influences organizational cultures in ways most managers might not consider. These men represent the range of demographics, occupations, and clothing styles in my sample. Why Should Managers Care?

Fashion 12

Fashion Participative Class Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As labor markets continue to open up and nations and the corporations they house chase ways to stem the talent drain and retain their skilled workers, we wanted to know how those at the highest level of industry — corporate directors — viewed the problem and what, if anything, they were doing about it. hiring top talent. assessing talent.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

They have given their social media staff a clear mission and a great deal of autonomy; the account’s managers chat with customers, offer up front to solve problems, and empathize with frustrated travelers. After all, management exists to transform corporations into more efficient machines. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8