Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas. Leadership Small/medium business' But when it’s a team of six?

Leadership 8

Leadership Leadership Pipeline Loyalty CEO 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

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Efficiency 50

Efficiency Short-term Long-term Stress 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Finance Human resources' Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? CHROs are standing at essentially the same crossroads that CFOs were in the 1980’s.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. He tried tech, finance, and real estate — all to no avail. “It’s very much, ‘Can you learn?

Career 12

Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors?

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets. Launching this week is the ambitious African Business Fellowship, which Masiyiwa is chairing with implementing partners the African Leadership Network and Management Leadership for Tomorrow. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Leadership Boards' With more than two centuries of making everything from gunpowder to nylon and Tyvek, Dupont Co.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. The problem, of course, is that organizational immune systems also can attack agents of needed change, and this has important implications for on-boarding and integrating people into organizations. "It finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g.

Incentives 8

Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum. Building Empathy.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

They were carefully chosen, of course. But since the most senior leadership teams are male-dominated, a lot of what happens in companies ends up reflecting that, including how they look and sound. The first, from 2013, is a classic, masculine vocabulary of rational, humanless machinery, steely-edged and high-performing.

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Of course, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for measuring outcomes, and all providers must make specific tweaks in order to make it work for them. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Unlike Mr. Icahn, I do not write to you as an Apple shareholder (I hold no Apple shares).

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation. By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles. In February 2013, after a series of mismanaged leadership transitions including the firing of founder and CEO Shai Agassi, Better Place finally reversed course.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8