Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. Unfortunately, it also leads many of us wonder if the struggle for career parity is truly worth it.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Our article in the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance discusses factors that can effectively “push” HR measures and analysis to audiences in a more impactful way, as well as factors that can effectively lead others to “pull” that data for analysis throughout the organization.

Human Capital 11

Human Capital Metrics Analysis Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

A recent study of the careers of nearly 29,000 artists, filmmakers, and scientists found that most of them had a hot streak in their career when their work received wide acclaim. These hot streaks happened at a random time in their career, however. Source: Carsten Worsch ET AL., Other research challenges these findings, however.

Long-term 14

Long-term Goal Career Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We turn to productivity tools or apps that promise to help us manage mounting pressures or we look for ways to alleviate our discomfort: find a different job, hire a new employee to take on an increased workload, or switch careers. Analysis alone isn’t enough. But these solutions are often temporary and ineffective.

Stress 15

Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

An analysis that we conducted of disclosures made by 50 American financial services companies revealed that women occupy only 20% of executive committee roles and 22% of board positions. Career progression analysis also shows that at each level, men are promoted at materially higher rates than women. financial firms are women.

Chief Executive Officer 8

Chief Executive Officer Committee Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

A systematic analysis of mid-2013 data on the world’s largest firms by revenue, the Fortune Global 500, shows that at that time only three non-Indian firms were led by Indian CEOs: Arcelor Mittal (Lakshmi Mittal), Deutsche Bank (Anshu Jain), and PepsiCo (Indra Nooyi).

CEO 13

CEO Altman Globalization GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

.” We collected data from a private online knowledge-sharing platform where buy-side (hedge fund, mutual fund) investment professionals (analysts, portfolio managers) share their investment recommendations to buy and sell a given security, along with the analysis supporting their position, with other members of this platform.

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

First the bad news: most of those employers aren’t doing much to provide their new hires with the training and support they need to get their careers off to a strong start. More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions.

Training 10

Training Attrition ROI Talent Management 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Disadvantages at the referral stage may also affect career outcomes that are further downstream (e.g., Specifically, we examined the personnel records of nearly 16,000 employees hired from 2003 to 2013 in a large U.S.-based We repeated the analysis for outstanding promotions (i.e., promotions, assignments, job satisfaction).

Reference 8

Reference Sample Participative Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

To control downside, managers make and track long lists of standardized business risks, as in the interminable listing of risk factors in the Management Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) required by regulation in the annual financial statements of public companies. published in February 2013. Embracing Risk in Career Decisions.

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Rogers Learning-by-Doing Document 10

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It used to be enough to look at a static market, do a five forces analysis, be able to figure out, do a BCG matrix, all of these sort of old-school tools. By the time you run that analysis, the time between devising it and implementing it, the market has changed. LARRY: It was never enough. It was never right.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

While we were unable to uncover any evidence on the impact of quotas for good or ill (though the statistical analysis may be too crude to discern such effects), our study found that having women on a board was statistically correlated with having more women in the C-suite. But certain measures could mitigate potential negative effects.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. It causes conflict in couples who then need to battle it out over who does what at home and whose career takes precedence at work. It seems essential in 2013 to recognize the difference.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It normally aspires to social, not selfish, purpose. Teaching, like pastoring, is often a “calling.”

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

A recent analysis by my firm, Weber Shandwick, found that 80% of the chief executive officers of the world’s largest 50 companies are engaged online and on social media. For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. Companies don’t want to be left behind.

Media 8

Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. What are the steps that you have taken during your career to become a more strategic thinker?

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The interplay of social and technical, the organization as it is experienced and as it is analyzed, is the space where he spent his entire career. But the most detached observers do not make the best managers; the wise ones know that after all the analysis is done, they still have to throw themselves back into the mix.

Management 8

Management Drucker Maturity Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. “The only reason I could even think about doing something like this is that early in my career was because I was living beneath my means,” she says.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

On the Monday after the Paris terror attacks (and two weeks before the shootings in San Bernardino), I taught a session at Harvard Business School on what Boston’s response to the 2013 marathon bombings can tell us about going from “nothing to something” in cities. Careers get established. Let me explain.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

“Still No Progress After Years of No Progress,” reads Catalyst’s recently released 2013 census of women directors and executive officers in the Fortune 500. To increase the sample size for a country-focused analysis of New Zealand, we administered the survey to a second wave of New Zealand directors between December 2012 and March 2013.

Diversity 11

Diversity Survey Sample Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Consider how the talent exodus is playing out New Zealand: between 2012 and 2013, the country’s researcher headcount (per million of the population) dropped by almost 11% and its ranking in the Global Innovation Index dropped four slots. Our analysis revealed very low scores for both New Zealand and global companies.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Co-founded by Peter and Candace Olson, this program provides a deep tutorial in the language of business, as well as extensive training in business and financial analysis, communication, and valuation. Where I was unable to spell my own name or barely speak in 2008, I am now projecting revenue growth and cash flows in 2013."

EBITDA 10

EBITDA Human Resources McKinsey Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, of the profound productivity difference between employees who just punch the clock to get their daily pay and those who engage in learning to make productive contributions through which they can build their careers and thereby reap future returns in work and in retirement. That’s just 2.1% Employee incentives.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

With the Boomer generation staying in the workforce longer due to declining retirement savings and increasing cost-of-living expenses, organizations are not only having to deal with three different generations of employees working together, but also the impact of a slowdown in the rate of upward career movement for younger workers.

P&L 264

P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 264

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8