Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. My analysis of the women’s responses, including their career decisions and the support they received from their managers and organization, led me to identify four main ways they develop and advance toward their goals: They want power and influence.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

But in this post-modern era of gender transcendence, a muse has come to mean a particular individual or category that profoundly inspires and influences one's creative work. Anyone can hire a focus group. Engelbart has quietly influenced generations of interface designers who've come to him for advice.

Innovation 14

Innovation Fashion Christensen Creativity 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The culture of "big" — big budgets, big campaigns, big reports — has driven marketing decisions and budgets for decades. Start with a catalog of learnings already captured and of specific learning goals for upcoming marketing programs (for example, "how can we influence 18 to 25 year olds to do X?"). Simplify your metrics.

Marketing 17

Marketing Metrics Agility Budgeting 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

People are far more influenced by their immediate surroundings than by a code of conduct set at the top. Although leaders often complain that company culture is hard to measure, it is far easier to seek employees’ input on team culture and norms than to ask them to report fraudulent practices or call out powerful wrongdoers.

Ethics 11

Ethics Organization Incentives Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

For example, reports about employee engagement are often delivered as soon as the analysis is completed, but they become more impactful if they’re delivered during business planning sessions and if they show the relationship between engagement and specific focus outcomes like innovation, cost, or speed.

Human Capital 11

Human Capital Metrics Analysis Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

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. This strengthening undertone of equality coupled with Asian women’s confidence and comfort with risk seem to also be influencing diversity dynamics in financial services across the region.

Survey 8

Survey Telecommunications Diversity Focus Group 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Today, like so much around us, that industry is heavily influenced by tech. Our focus is shifting away from the actual self — our bodies, minds, and spirits — and toward data about the self. Although the American Psychiatric Association reports that 39% of U.S. This dogged self-improvement quest is not the antidote.

Stress 15

Stress Metrics Morale Goal 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The culture of "big" — big budgets, big campaigns, big reports — has driven marketing decisions and budgets for decades. Start with a catalog of learnings already captured and of specific learning goals for upcoming marketing programs (for example, "how can we influence 18 to 25 year olds to do X?"). Simplify your metrics.

Marketing 10

Marketing Metrics Agility Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

In 2007 and 2008 the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Anita Borg Institute conducted research on approximately 1,800 tech workers in seven high-tech companies, finding that women reported being less likely than their male counterparts to be assigned to high-visibility projects. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Focus Group 8

Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

But a recent experience made me question some of my assumptions about consumers, “influencers,” and the companies who can make a difference. ” Behind the curtain, the truth of most social media listening is akin to the infamous TPS reports in the classic movie Office Space. I’ve been there myself.

Media 8

Media Airlines Travel Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

According to our report The Power of the Purse: Engaging Women Decision Makers for Healthy Outcomes , which was based on a multi-market survey of 9,218 respondents in the U.S., Given the influence of these consumers, you would expect that the health care industry would be supporting them with tools and services.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8