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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. Programs like the Center for Women''s Entrepreneurial Leadership are innovating in the academic space. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes).

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Mary Hassett Creates New Opportunities at Lam Research and Beyond

HR Digest

In a remarkable interview with The HR Digest, Mary Hasset shared how ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ is being firmly anchored into Lam Research’s philosophy, how the company is bridging the diversity gap in executive leadership, and shed light on the upcoming Inclusion Index. . Leading Through the Unexpected. Photo: Lam Research.

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

When contaminated meat or vegetables are recalled, consumer advocates demand more transparency from food supply chains. Some employees would pad their bonuses by counting unpaid internships as “jobs” even though that was against company policy. Note that fairness doesn’t mean treating everyone the same.

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Zappos Killed the Job Posting – Should You?

Harvard Business Review

Zappos is often out in front of new and unusual HR policies. It originated the “pay employees to quit” policy adopted by Amazon.com. The “abandon job postings” policy recalls an earlier era — as Zapar says, “It’s old-school recruiting, made new and fresh again.”. So, abandoning job postings doesn’t mean random hiring.

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The Big Picture of Business – Planning and Budgeting in Downsized Times

Strategy Driven

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Human resources development. Adopt a policy of strategic planning. A corporate culture must foster all goal setting, policies, practices and procedures.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business Review

In other words, the sales increase did not occur due to syphoning of traffic and sales from other Gap stores as the stores that had adopted the new policies became attractive to shoppers. So, this augurs well for the rollout of this initiative to the entire chain as a similar increase can be expected as the risk of cannibalization is low. .”

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