HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Through accountability measures and ongoing learning initiatives, EY fosters an inclusive culture at all levels.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

When Dr. Nido Qubein assumed the presidency in January 2005, he realized the enormous potential of this academy of higher learning. And, the operating budget has climbed from $38M to $178M. Obviously named for the town, it could have easily been named for the attitude it seeks to create in its students—a high point.

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Leadership Education Wireless Rogers 150

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. But, what about agency, or intentionality, or what today we generally call strategy? He named that moment, the Singularity. Will there be a moment when the Singularity arrives in the C-suite?

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this article, the authors look at the experience of Tony’s Chocolonely, a Dutch chocolate brand founded in 2005, which set itself a mission to sell 100% slavery-free chocolate. In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day.

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Supply Chain Brand Industry Article 23

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 12, 2016

There is a change happening at the very top of the organizational hierarchy that, like a weather vane, reflects some of the fundamental changes happening across every organization and the marketplace they operate in. This is where trust and leadership suddenly become synonymous.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

The concept of crowdsourcing dates back to 2005, when Wired magazine journalists, Mark Robinson and Jeff Howe, coined the phrase. Does your business suffer “blindness” to problems relating to your operations and its industry as a whole? A cash sum was offered as an incentive. Get a fresh perspective.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2016

To do that, they must be able to operate unfettered by preconceived plans or flavor-of-the-month investment vehicles. Prior to that, he served as both a top advisor and top manager for Waddell & Reed Financial Services since 2005. About the Author. Conor Delaney founded The Good Life Financial Group in 2012.

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Leadership Belief Systems Banking Politics 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. The Apple-Samsung battle shows that patent litigation can be a much broader and powerful strategy. The real enemy of Apple is Google, whose Android operating system runs on Samsung’s phones.

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Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Without any formal authority or role in organizational strategy, Brian drove broad change across the company. He had no formal authority as a leader, operating without any title or mandate.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Blue Cross wrote that TheraMatrix’s operations were “competitive and damaging not only to BCBSM’s financial interests, but also to its business relationships.&# A case in point is TheraMatrix, a small Michigan company.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Quick bio of Sramana Mitra Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. Traditional publishers take very long to get their acts together, and frankly, I don’t operate with those timelines. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

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.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Companies that offer good jobs today — with decent wages, predictable schedules, and opportunities for success and growth — do so by combining investment in people with operational choices that increase their employees’ productivity and contributions. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition, Corporate Executive Board research shows that 40 percent of engaged employees are not aligning their behavior with organizational goals, The bottom line is that only one out of ten employees are both engaged and aligned with strategy. The CNO is the head of the U.S.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. To do so, they must: Make sure that acquisitions are aligned with strategy. This is a recipe for failure and acquirers need to make sure that their M&A strategy is aligned with a well thought-through broader strategic plan.

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Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

” By detailing out how to orchestrate complex interdependencies such as customers, competitors, operations, logistics, marketing, and sales, writing a plan first appears to schedule out actions and strengthen the link between actions and performance for the new venture. A Short Guide to Strategy for Entrepreneurs. entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Planning Marketing Advice 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. To fully enable a new vision of the future, organizations must make changes in five key business areas: Planning and Budgeting If organizations have easy access to—and indeed rely on—external talent, they can tackle new opportunities, experiment more nimbly, and operate in new areas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In a recently published paper in the Academy of Management Journal , we explore how major business corporations translate the grand challenge of climate change into strategies, policies, and practices over an extended period of time. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return.

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Allow time within the ordinary course of operations for experimentation and recovery from the inevitable failures that go with it. The Holiday Outlook: Time to Party (Strategy+Business). He offers three tips: Don’t talk up the brilliance of your stars, which not only disheartens them but closes other people’s minds, as well.

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Sample Retail Resistance Tips 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. In the second case, a company uses an acquisition to "reinvent my business model" (RBM), or at least diversify its business strategy. CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 We call such deals "leverage my business model" (LBM) acquisitions.

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Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 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. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Well, Burrows was converted to the stores, at least: in a glowing 2005 piece, he professed that Apple had discovered what surely must be the future of retail. But this strategy comes at a price. Advantage instead went to the horizontal layers of chips and operating systems (cue Wintel).

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Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late.

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CEO Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

trillion US$ in 2012 with respect to 2011 and still remains below 2005-2007 precrisis figures. As illustrated in a recent article , in the aftermath of the crisis, MNCs are adjusting their global strategies by narrowing their focus relative to international markets. to a plant in Kentucky. outside of the home region).

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Globalization Operations Report Document 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Through research and my own consulting experience, I’ve found four practices that explain these companies’ mastery of the art of acquisition: They only buy companies that fit their core strategy. But midsize companies such as EORM shop carefully, making sure the deal is in line with their core strategy. The San Jose, Calif.-based

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Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. And wages are stagnant.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. No company should confuse the strategy of buying into a big market with buying innovation that will bring tomorrow's growth.

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Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Tesco in the UK pioneered an RFID-based approach to checkout in 2005. Today, the smartphone can also be used to achieve lower operational costs and potentially heighten customer satisfaction by giving consumers more control during the shopping experience. While the technology is new to the market, early results are very promising.

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Technology Cost Discount ROI 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Allow time within the ordinary course of operations for experimentation and recovery from the inevitable failures that go with it. The Holiday Outlook: Time to Party (Strategy+Business). He offers three tips: Don’t talk up the brilliance of your stars, which not only disheartens them but closes other people’s minds, as well.

Sample 8

Sample Retail Resistance Tips 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

And when misclassification is adopted as a business strategy by some companies, it quickly undermines other, more responsible employers who face costs disadvantages arising from compliance with labor standards and responsibilities. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. But business leaders shouldn't stop with their foundations. Take Cisco.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The company came along in 2005, after years of focus on low-fat products had left the US yogurt market vulnerable. Chobani’s brand strategy focused on the taste, texture, affordability, and authenticity of its “real” yogurt. Branding Marketing Strategy'

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Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations. Connectors in the middle.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

The 2005 refinery disaster at BP’s Texas City is an example of what can happen when these investments get neglected. What happened is very well documented: they kept running down the maintenance budget, pushing their operating budget to make their numbers. Strategies for staying ahead. Insight Center. Insight Center.

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Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Drucker passed away in 2005. Winning (2005). The respected but controversial former CEO of General Electric discusses the philosophies and strategies at the core of his leadership style that helped see GE’s value rise by 4000% during his tenure.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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Agility White Paper How To Metrics 8