The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake. Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K.,

Productivity 93

Productivity Products Management Participative 93

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. With input from their managers, peers, and teams, leaders know what they need to focus on when it comes to their development.

Leadership Development 322

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 322

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. Use multiple sources of finance.

Finance 8

Finance Company How To Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company. We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. A lot of people thought we were crazy.

Team 14

Team Leadership COO Software 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me. “We kept trying.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Target raised its minimum wage to $11 this past fall and committed to $15 by 2020. in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% For example, across our sectors and countries studied, in the decade from 1995 to 2004, growth in demand for goods and services averaged 4.6%, slowed to 2.3% in 2014 to 2020.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Vice President Al Gore, McKinsey Managing Director Dominic Barton (see his HBR article and blog ), and Vanguard Group founder John Bogle have advocated bolstering the voting rights of long-term shareholders or, conversely, withholding them from short-term investors. Prominent commentators such as former U.S.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Class Proposal 8