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

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated in a new book through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Strategic plan as jigsaw puzzle.

Creativity 58

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers?

Management 15

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

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. First, even large companies are carving out new niches to help businesses and communities manage water scarcity. Water Resources Management Co.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” “Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.” “Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.” ” Give a work sample test.

Process 8

Process Diversity Sample Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The key to building predictive models is knowing what you want to predict and collecting large and diverse data sets that may enable you to do so. Harry Haysom/Getty Images.

Company 8

Company Management Metrics Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

The first type is commonly known as time-management planning, which involves making to-do lists, prioritizing and scheduling tasks, and ultimately managing one’s time. We found that employees’ use of time-management planning had strong positive effects on their daily engagement and daily productivity. Our findings.

Contingency Plans 11

Contingency Plans Sample Planning Energy 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

At Facebook, even though we can often gain the insights we need from a sample, we often invite the whole company to participate so they have a chance to contribute to the conversation. On our engagement survey at Facebook, we often try out new questions with different samples of people.

Survey 12

Survey Sample Participative Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Widespread use of antivirus, intrusion detection technologies, improved cryptography algorithms, and methods for blacklisting infected web sites are just a few examples of how technical advances have improved cyber defense. This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. However, it is not just a matter of getting women to the very top ranks of management. Their lack of gender diversity affects the bottom line. Yet in the U.S. And worldwide they are catching up to men in levels of education and workforce participation.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

This lack of outside investment is a major barrie r for many aspiring female entrepreneurs, especially in the technology sector. Looking across a wider sample of 2,300 venture and micro-venture firms in their database, Tech Crunch reports that only 8% of all firms’ full-time investing partners were women.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Rate of Return 8

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

APRIL 18, 2012

With mixed-presence team members, some co-located and other stationed globally and connected via technology, efficient collaboration is becoming a true challenge. Vary the size of workspaces, and the technology with which they're equipped. Yet most workplaces are still heavily anchored in "I work" designs. Provide collaborative tools.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork White Paper Brainstorming Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

In both cases, senior managers had posed a seemingly simple question. And not just design — industrial experimentation has contributed to improvements in the technologies and processes needed to grow corn, assemble cars, find oil, and so forth. Information & technology Tech industry' But too many eschew it.

Sample 8

Sample Information Technology Industry Sharpe 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

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We typically imagine that the young can help the old understand technology and the old can impart general wisdom. Over time, financial literacy increases; in our sample, it was highest for people in their sixties. How to build diverse networks. Coaching and mentoring across age groups makes sense. What might this look like?

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Self-aware Reputation Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We see this especially in women’s levels of confidence and engagement, their degree of risk tolerance, and the level of diversity in the financial services industry across the region. In India, 59% of women in our sample report they’re generating their wealth; only 20% derive it from their spouse and 21% inherit it.

Survey 8

Survey Diversity Telecommunications Focus Group 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As one technology executive has explained to us, “We have some very capable women in the middle management and junior VP levels, but they leave our firm to advance their careers as they continually get passed over for promotion.” How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Focus Group 8

Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Thanks to technology, looking for a job today seems to require an advanced degree in data analysis. For instance, the Society for Human Resource Management has a job board, as does the American Marketing Association. Remember the days when looking for a new job involved the Sunday newspaper classified section and a black magic marker?

Directory 15

Directory How To Industry Media 15

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. The disparity in gender diversity has little to do with competence levels.”

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Fueled by passion and purpose, they produced and tested foundation samples on their own time. Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

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

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. Interacting with two or more cultural contexts can help immigrants combine diverse ideas, solutions, and customer problems in order to create something entirely new. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Like leading the way in cup technology with the first U.S. We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults. Our results were recently published in Management Science (link forthcoming). Everything we do, you do. Good for you, you.”

Ethics 9

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally. Not competitive threats.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications 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. Strategic Challenges and Talent Management. Director Profiles.

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

The page for Technology Centers on Wikipedia, for example, lists no fewer than 90 places that have billed themselves as “Silicon This” or “That Valley”, hoping to emulate the Valley’s success in generating innovation. Yet, few regions have managed to achieve the levels of innovation as seen in Silicon Valley.

Innovation 10

Innovation Policies Diversity Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

But affiliation doesn’t guarantee enthusiasm, as this sample of survey comments reveals: “On sabbatical from the Democratic party”; “Republican, unless they keep acting like goofballs”; and “Independent (especially this year!). Overall, directors from both sides are bringing diverse strengths to the table.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8