Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

Since the 1980s, most global companies have developed diversity and inclusion policies led by human resources. The most frequent include: assessment tools (climate surveys, statistics monitoring, minority targets), human resources programs (flexible policies, mentoring or coaching), communication campaigns, and training programs.

Diversity 8

Diversity Human Resources Policies Project 8

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

1 For a study on the effectiveness of this process with internal coaches in GE Financial Services, see “Leveraging HR: How to Develop Leaders in ‘Real Time’, in Human Resources in the 21st Century, M. Goldsmith in strategy+business, Fall 2004. Wiley, 2005. References. Gandossy and M. Goldsmith, eds., Wiley, 2003.

Learning-by-Doing 123

Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Data has enabled strategy, but, with few exceptions, neither driven strategy nor sat at its heart. Improved data quality also lies at the root of the second strategy, which I call “ content is king. My friends in the industry tell me that bogey was met by 2005. It will take real effort to relearn these strategies.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The good news is that Big Data is making a difference in places and ways you might not expect, particularly in human resources. In their 2012 book, Transformative HR authors John Boudreau and Ravin Jesuthasan detailed a case study of Ameriprise Financial, a diversified financial services company spun off from American Express in 2005.

Company 8

Company Human Resources Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But not at IBM.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Companies therefore need to adapt their various processes—strategy, budgeting, talent—to this reality. Human Resources HR will play a leading role in driving this shift. And a pool of independent and highly skilled workers who can fill those needs is growing.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Build, Buy, Partner. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

It is time for hospitals or health systems to rethink their strategy for their physician enterprises. Thanks to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, specialties such as cardiology, orthopedics, and medical oncology that relied on the revenue that imaging generated were hit hard. Here’s how to do that.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

.” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Founded in Malawi in 2005, North Star is now a non-profit network of more than 30 roadside health centers, operating along major transportation corridors across Africa in countries including Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, serving hundreds of thousands of patients each year. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We've seen success with a novel approach to talent engagement: an integrated HR-Marketing strategy that teams Marketing's brand messaging savvy with HR's internal perspective and expertise. Our first, in 2005, aimed to transform the way Xerox's HR staff connected with its workforce and align Xerox employees with new business goals.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Benchmarking Marketing Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

2 (2005): 447–504. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.” Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8