HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

They talk through what to do when your company’s board is not diverse, promotions favor some people more than others, or you want to have more conversations about race at the office. From Alison and Dan’s reading list for this episode: HBR: Diversity and Authenticity by Katherine W. Phillips, Tracy L.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Ruchika Tulshyan is the author of The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace and the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. Resources: “ Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions ,” by Linda Babcock, Maria P. 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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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. She was a leader of several important diversity initiatives at IBM as well — but it was likely Rometty's sales experience that opened the door to the C-suite.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. And for many people they're harder to learn.

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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. The agenda was always the same, and it was a marathon day.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

That’s despite the fact that there has been so much discussion about the need for boardroom diversity and more diversity in the C-suites, particularly for women to fill more of these positions. Getting more women on boards begins with getting more women in mission-critical P&L roles. in Latin America.

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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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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. I just feel less of a connection, either positive or negative, with the guys I work with. So sometimes I seem to have difficulty getting traction for my ideas.". "I It would be easier, I was told.

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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. Directness.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. P&L impact or other financial impact. Kenneth Andersson. stage to the next.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Problem 1: Calling it Diversity. Whoever came up with the idea of putting gender issues under the diversity umbrella? How did women, who are 50% of the population, control 60% of global spending, and represent 60% of university graduates, ever accept to be positioned as a "diversity" demographic?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

There’s no question that leaders and their organizations face a great number of challenges in today’s fast-paced and culturally diverse global economy, particularly as we obtain greater tools and data to help us understand the increasing complexity in today’s business environment. & Rubin I.M. & Coulon, L.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Some candidates also seek inclusive cultures that welcome diversity and authenticity in leadership style. Change, variety, and some element of diversity, i.e., something new and different that will continue to challenge them, make them grow, and make them learn more about their own abilities and the world out there.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. "What sort of help?" Give me $700,000 from corporate funds. I'll put together a plan to get this hotel on track.". Beatriz, you know how Alegre works.

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Now look at P&G or McDonald’s. Those that say all the right things, run a lot of women-branded initiatives, but still have women only in noncore P&L roles on their executive team. See the difference? Walmart and EY certainly have worked hard to get to where they are. But they aren’t best in class.

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