HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Through a combination of efficiency projects and the use of renewable energy, we are on pace to reach our carbon emissions goal ahead of schedule. In fact, we are more than 90% of the way to our 2025 emissions reduction goal. The HR Digest: C.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Even in these times of feverish attention to performance metrics, it’s not always clear what the boss wants or expects. I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. How do their jobs help the company meet its goals?

Health Care 12

Health Care Short-term Report Fashion 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives. And if these social intrapreneurs are really good, they have a shot at changing the success metrics not only for their company but for their industry as a whole.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

But while performance goals are always top of mind for managers , many overlook the role of employee work-life balance in driving that performance. 92% feel they’re now better able to prioritize all their responsibilities and goals. Everything looks delicious, but we can’t eat it all (though we might try).

Project 8

Project Participative Goal ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Customers and suppliers: The ultimate goal of our business is not to sell products but to serve customers. We pride ourselves on finding ways (through R&D) to use less energy and water in the production process. By competing on products, we respond to the market.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You either achieve your goals or you don't. Energy, creativity, and activity are all good things — but they don't create value unless results are achieved. In other words, metrics are starting points for dialogue rather than conclusions. Most organizations take the same stance.

Short-term 14

Short-term Pharmaceuticals Long-term Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action. Things were looking up on all fronts except one.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There is reason to worry that the reward system in our field, particularly in the publication process, is misaligned with the goals of good science. Citation metrics are widely used in faculty evaluations and routinely come up in tenure reviews. The questions of good for what and good for whom are worth revisiting.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Criteria for Progression : Outline the factors, such as skills development, experience, or performance metrics, that contribute to an employee moving within the salary band. Instead, energies can be focused on figuring out the logistics and viability of what the company needs.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As such, organizations spend enormous amounts of time and energy defining jobs, roles, and goals — and then figure out who to reward or punish when things go well or poorly. Most companies have some version of a matrix, with a combination of enabling "functions" (such as IT, HR, and Finance) and line business units.

How To 8

How To Metrics Budgeting Finance 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., Another piece of advice is to set measurable goals. If you fail to set goals and measure whether or not your content marketing helps you achieve them, you'll never know if it's working or not. and the best agencies know how to tailor their solution to your needs.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. See here for an excellent list of 500 auto-analytic tools.)

Organization 11

Organization Self-aware Taylorism Taylor 11