Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In 1971, philosopher John Rawls proposed a thought experiment to understand the idea of fairness: the veil of ignorance. Specifically, it defines how to understand “unintended consequences“ and whether a decision process’s outcomes are fair. The process integrates with the existing data science processes.

Credit Risk 8

Credit Risk Tools Objective Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. What processes led to the development and delivery of a given product or service?

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? Our research found companies with effective long-term planning processes are three times more likely to perform in the top 20% of their industry. It’s not surprising.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Maybe you were contemplating a change in employment policies such as flextime or one in customer-facing processes such as a new billing system. You likely studied the proposed change in detail, discussed it at length with relevant colleagues, came up with a strategy for implementing it, and then introduced it.

Flextime 8

Flextime Call Center Human Resources CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Rather, it is characterized by a steady increase in the automation of traditionally human-based decision processes throughout organizations all over the country. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. This is not an argument for algorithmic absolutism or blind faith in the power of statistics.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Leaders rate the importance of maintaining a sterling reputation in the countries in which they operate 10 times higher than do laggards — the greatest variance we found. They also believe it is critical to work with the local government, rating engagement in the political process more highly than laggards by a ratio of almost 3:1.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 17 percent).

Consultative 79

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 79

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Transformative change requires an organization to change not only how it operates but, even more importantly, how people think. At RBL, we use a collaborative process as we engage our clients in large-scale change. Our consultants provide a clear process, frameworks and tools.

Ulrich 52

Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52