HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains. We have a critical role to play to help our customers, our industry, and our world lessen the environmental impact of supply chains. Robinson will continue to help advance the supply chain around the globe.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

Research from Harvard Business School reminds us, however, that precious few doctors receive any kind of leadership or management training, so may be unsuited to the task. Managerial expertise. There’s a thirst for this type of information among clinicians,” they explain. New skills.

Skills 67

Skills Supply Chain Restructuring Training 67

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core. As an example, Look at Apple!

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Our work will focus on the potential benefits of better management practices across the NHS, education and local government.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Traditionally, it has been government’s role to provide equality of opportunity (particularly through education), an effective safety net, and social, political, and economic stability. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men. Women who have benefited from education and mentoring are experiencing "capital punishment."

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

For instance, in our recent Babson Executive Education sample of 445 companies, more than three-quarters (77%) admit that breaking convention is not their strong suit. Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. Most aren't that good.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

An expert in customer strategy at a consumer products company,we’ll call Sandra, She wanted to stay with the company, however, so she looked for gaps in service delivery across business units – from supply chain to e-commerce – and then volunteered to help colleagues fill those gaps.

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Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Comparable challenges exist for supply chain management and external partnerships: their collective intelligence may be ripe for algorithmic harvesting, but how well will it link to the rest of the enterprise? Information & technology Leadership Social media'

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain. This philosophy has started to take its toll.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Educate and Motivate Others.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

It goes back to my role in establishing the firm’s Responsible Business Leadership function as well as the PwC Charitable Foundation. Thanks to a nonprofit board service role, I attended a class through Leadership Greater Chicago, where I met my husband, who is African American. Implement and expand unconscious bias education.

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Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

In this era of complex supply chains and the hiring of expert sub-contractors, taking such responsibility is crucial for preventing events with the potential to adversely affect the corporation and its reputation. Significantly improving education and training of BP personnel to enhance capability and competency.

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CEO Outsourcing Supply Chain Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

I have always been fascinated by the question: How can for-profit corporations innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Growing up in India, I realized that the country has too few resources to confront its many challenges; the only way India can hope to solve its problems is through innovation.

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Supply Chain Licensing Sharpe Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Employee education. That’s just 2.1% Employee incentives. Social investment.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I am expected to integrate my tools into complex global supply chains of international drug producers to solve the local problem of counterfeiting. If this is the case with lotteries, think of the even more regulated sectors of health and education, or more politically charged sectors such as agriculture. infrastructure.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

workers, and the fact that manufacturing at home eliminates a host of problems inherent in long-distance supply chains, many companies are doing the math and choosing to build new plants in the United States rather than overseas. competitiveness and restoring our manufacturing leadership need to be an all-in effort.

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Supply Chain Incentives Politics Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter. Gain senior leadership support. Every Mayo value-improvement project tests one or more innovations for improving the value of care. select a project team with the right skill sets. test process-improvement suggestions.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Through a concerted focus on our supply chain, we use rigorous value-based purchasing protocols, market intelligence, and business analytics to examine every purchase from the standpoint of value, utility, and outcomes. A key part of the cost solution is to educate all caregivers, including doctors, about what items cost.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Hence China's innovation dilemma. The very same publications that soft-pedal the Net's role in challenging the social status quo openly discuss its importance in challenging the rigidities of China's educational system. Open courseware initiatives fascinate China's educational establishment and its entrepreneurs alike.

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Innovation Supply Chain Politics CRM 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Never before has leadership been so critical, and never before has it seemed in such short supply. It takes extraordinary leadership to keep an organization relevant in a world of relentless change. So what does it take to dramatically enlarge the leadership capacity of an organization?

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

political leadership have a chilling effect on corporate action around environmental and social issues? One of his reasons why is what he described as a “fragile supply chain,” wherein weather shocks can damage grain production — a nice way of saying we don’t know if we can grow enough food.

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Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The loss of American trade leadership could hardly come at a worse time. This uncertainty calls for political leadership. Moreover, the Senate Republican leadership will have little incentive to push the TPP if a newly-elected President Clinton opposes it, especially if Republicans lose their majority in the Senate.

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Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8