Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Lise and Ruchika tell us how they’ve handled these kinds of requests and what managers can do to assign work fairly. Ruchika Tulshyan is the author of The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace and the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. Kolb and Jessica L. Recalde, and Lise Vesterlund.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The idea started with two Janssen employees, Annick Daems and Enrique Esteban, who were spearheading an initiative to increase the company’s diversity of thought and experience. Their proposal would solve a diversity and inclusion problem, but the impact on the company’s bottom line wasn’t clear.

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Innovation P&L Short-term Company 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

After all, sales experience feeds the types of line jobs — where individuals have P&L accountability — that are a pipeline to the C-suite. These roles very rarely lead to major jobs in senior management. When we hear a woman say that sales is outside of her job description, we always beg to differ.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Most people come out of business schools fairly well armed with technical skills, but the softer side of management — communication, collaboration, cross-cultural intelligence, for instance — has dramatically grown in importance, and will continue to do so. Here are five reasons. Soft skills are more important than ever.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

Share this: 9 Comments Filed under Building Relationships , communication , diversity , Establishing Direction , motivating & Inspiring ← Celebrate Good Times…Come On! Maybe it isn’t tangible like a chair or a P&L Statement, but it is most certainly observable and most definitely impacts performance.

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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. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. We came up with a system that shared the travel burden but, most important, made "local" management a part of the global corporation. The agenda was always the same, and it was a marathon day.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others. Local Growth Teams (LGTs) must have P&L responsibility (this is a key hurdle for American multinationals).

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 12

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

My acronym for BUSINESS : B ig-picture U nderstanding S ymbiosis I n N omenclature, E conomics, S ystems, and S ervices WORK : W indows of O pportunity, R equiring K now-how My acronym for GOALS : G etting O rganized A llowing L ifeblood S ystems G rowth O pportunities A nd L egacy S upport THINK : T o H ave I deas, N ew K eys FAILURE : F inding A (..)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Many have argued it just makes good business sense to create diversity. Quotas don't necessarily increase the right kind of diversity. It's possible to improve the gender ratio of boards without improving the diversity of the conversation. Perhaps effective boards just choose to include more women.

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P&L Diversity Learning-by-Doing Goal 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. These messages tell women who have managed to succeed that they are exceptions and women who have experienced setbacks that it is their own fault for failing to be sufficiently aggressive or committed to the job.

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Education P&L Constraint Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

With 440,000 employees in 170 countries, Palmisano recognized that IBM couldn't be run solely from the top; rather, it needed thousands of leaders operating collaboratively around the globe to fulfill its customers' diverse needs. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Patience and a long-term view. Directness.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Yet they don't work, and their repeated application makes many managers incredibly gender fatigued and frustrated. Problem 1: Calling it Diversity. Whoever came up with the idea of putting gender issues under the diversity umbrella? Similarly, why do we unquestioningly use the oxymoronish term "gender diversity"?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

They want to be part of the management team that drives its growth, and be recognized for the added expertise that they bring to the team.” Some candidates also seek inclusive cultures that welcome diversity and authenticity in leadership style. Talent management' What do good executives look for in new jobs?”

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. “Generational differences in work-related attitudes: A meta-analysis”, Journal of Business and Psychology, 27(4), p. “How ‘Gen X’ Managers Manage”, in Osland J.S., & Rubin I.M. & Coulon, L.

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 264

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. It was Hans Edelman, a Dutchman who managed Alegre's most profitable hotel, in Buenos Aires. Hans, hello.". I apologize.

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Walmart has five men who sit at the top of its pyramid and probably run the show, but another 35 people on its website under “Executive Management.” Now look at P&G or McDonald’s. They may manage to get a few women up into the latest pink ghetto: the staff jobs of the executive team. See the difference?

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P&L CEO Competitive Advantage McKinsey 8