HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. One of the ways we bring this to life is through our Business Resource Groups (BRGs). Michael Fraccaro | Chief Human Resources Officer, Mastercard.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

While you can argue that the board didn’t set some of the previous problems in motion, they did participate in how the situations were handled during and after the fact. When it works, it’s wonderful but the operative word is when it works. For a small business, this is a huge operational problem.

Hotels 150

Hotels Wireless CEO Long-term 150

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank.

Globalization 12

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 12

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Several years ago, we realized that specialized positioning and communications are necessary for social harmony and a global economy. Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. Black professionals do not just participate in African American community events. It means being anything that we want to be.

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Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 90

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Lack of attentiveness to quality has cost the United States its global marketplace dominance. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents. August 2011 HBR.

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Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. Is crowdfunding in this global village quite the same? This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Networks connect; communities care.

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Drucker Information Technology Globalization Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 10

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Creating Opportunities for Multigenerational Workforce" Peter Fasolo, Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at Johnson & Johnson is widely considered one of the world’s most influential human resources leaders and Johnson & Johnson, one of the most admired companies. Peter Fasolo, Ph.D.

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Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 96

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

In a global, hyper-connected economy, where security failures in one corner of the world can lead to an economic catastrophe on the other side of the world, it's in everyone's best interest to promote greater security and prosperity everywhere. Especially in the world's most fragile states, economic development is critical to stability.

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GDP Entrepreneur Finance Training 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

Southwest operates in an industry that has long been obsessed with asset utilization as the key to competitiveness. As we’ve argued elsewhere , once smart machines are built to solve problems in asset efficiency (or indeed any area of operations) they very rapidly spread and become pervasive across an industry.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Storytelling Airlines Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Improving Operational Efficiency. For mature, large-scale, multinational companies, there is a virtuous cycle of efficiency improvements that frees up resources, which can then be deployed for growth and innovation projects. Participating in Strategy Formulation. Many IT functions are only involved in the implementation phase.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Creating Opportunities for Multigenerational Workforce" Peter Fasolo, Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at Johnson & Johnson is widely considered one of the world’s most influential human resources leaders and Johnson & Johnson, one of the most admired companies. Peter Fasolo, Ph.D.

Innovation 40

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

It's difficult to overstate what a pillar of the global economy Libor is — it's used in setting interest rates that affect the daily lives of pretty much every citizen of every advanced economy across the globe. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf?

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By Dave Aron, Global Research Director, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. Talent-as-a-Service – Use crowdsourcing platforms like Topcoder or Kaggle to access talent that may not be available in the enterprise, commonly for projects but conceivably for operations too.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

According to my current research at Harvard on innovation models in global companies across diverse sectors, these types of projects fail between 70% and 90% of the time.This should be a deeply troubling, motivating statistic. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Data compiled from the network surveys I give my participants shows that we are still not using networks to our best advantage. That’s fine if an executive is looking to move elsewhere, as some of my participants were. For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8