HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The HR Digest talked to Quita Highsmith to discuss the essential role of HR in building a culture of agility, innovation, and engagement. We believe that diversity is more than good for business – it’s good for scientific innovation. The HR Digest: What are the non-negotiable parts of Genentech’s company culture?

Pharmaceuticals 52

Pharmaceuticals Industry Diversity Career 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

Industry 9

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Organizations are continuously promoting people into management, and those new leaders struggle with the transition. How talent management is changing. We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). Insight Center.

Leadership Pipeline 9

Leadership Pipeline Leadership After Action Review Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Managers and business analysts will often be called upon to conduct data-driven experiments, to interpret data, and to create innovative data-based products and services. Adept at mathematical reasoning : How many of your managers today are really "numerate" — competent in the interpretation and use of numeric data?

Skills 15

Skills Pharmaceuticals Sample Business Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. They need creative discontent.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

On the other hand, most large sample studies in the accounting literature show something different: firms that manage their earnings perform better than firms that don’t (and not just in the short term). HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance? A couple of things.

Short-term 8

Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8