Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages.

IPO 15

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

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. Medicine involves leadership. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

How to Manage a Toxic Employee. 3) Let people know that you have a policy of “if you have a problem with me, please tell me first.” ” Adopt the “tell them first” policy with your colleagues, and, when someone approaches you with gossip about someone else, ask “Have you already told her?”

Brainstorming 15

Brainstorming Attrition Policies Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. To this end, we are creating a collaboration of researchers and managers to explore what works, what doesn’t, and why.

Diversity 8

Diversity Engineering Committee Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. “I must have been projecting more sternness than I knew I was capable of,” she told us. How do women navigate this no-win situation? to find out. And the leader becomes part of a team.

Self-aware 12

Self-aware Leadership Styles Compliance Officer Career 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Such communities are particularly useful in recruitment, hiring, talent development, or in defining employee retention policies. But because emotional communities are held together as much by the likes as by the dislikes of members, they can be unpredictable and difficult to manage. Communities of aspiration look toward the future.

Innovation 8

Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Marissa Mayer’s move to ban working from home at Yahoo in 2013 caused a media firestorm over the costs and benefits of this rapidly growing practice. This provided us with excellent — and uncommon — access to both the experimental data and to the management’s views on working from home. Further Reading.

Policies 8

Policies Call Center Attitude Survey Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Is big data just another IT project that can be run by a unit head? Does the company have a culture of making decisions based on data, or do politics, tradition, and policy rule the day?

ROI 10

ROI Maturity How To CRM 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. Along with fixing the sales culture, the bank will have to address these critical management issues to prevent the next scandal.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

The problem is two-fold: first, hospital administrators and managers struggle to effectively implement these tools. To fix this, in 2012 hospital administrators and managers implemented TeamSTEPPS , a commonly used set of evidence-based strategies and tools (e.g., Second, they struggle to sustain change that’s made.

Long-term 8

Long-term Janis Quality Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Our Prosperity Project (P2) strategy and platform is the largest and most pervasive business grassroots and advocacy platform in the United States. We expect to see more communication from employers to employees in the future ( our 2012 National Pollis set to release in early 2013). And I don't see a problem in that.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. “I must have been projecting more sternness than I knew I was capable of,” she told us. How do women navigate this no-win situation? to find out. And the leader becomes part of a team.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Leadership Styles Compliance Officer Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

” When the company upgraded its commercial insurance line for small businesses a few years ago, the agents jammed internal call centers with questions about how the policies worked and how to set sales quotes. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive. Don’t make your AI too lite.

Company 8

Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. Companies need to confirm that their policies are compliant by consulting with an external sanctions lawyer. However, remaining U.S. The Opportunities.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue. Global business Talent management'

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Predictions are that 2013 will be even more active as companies that have stockpiled cash look to invest in new growth opportunities. To reduce the risks however, there are two steps that managers can take to make sure their firms are ready for the challenges of integration before committing to an actual deal. And this was a slow year.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

“For the sake of your team, you need to stop,” says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room and managing partner of Paravis Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm. “Ask a colleague you trust: ‘How’s that project going? .” proofreading the presentation).

Micromanagement 8

Micromanagement Team How To Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

It sometimes seems as if Frederick Winslow Taylor’s unfinished project is around right the corner: A time-and-motion utopia in which managers can track almost any aspect of employee behavior on a second-by-second basis. In 2013, at the U.S. Firms need to identify ways of allying these concerns early on.

Company 8

Company Long-term Bureaucracy Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Most brands are playing catch-up : in 2013 only 30% of brands had a dedicated customer service handle on Twitter, and only 10% of those brands with customer service handles reply to more than 70% of their mentions. A more thoughtful connection offering suggestions or even an explanation of company policy? Are they canned responses?

Media 8

Media Airlines Travel Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Managers who are used to vacation occurring in August or over Christmas may find themselves caught off-guard when their team members are suddenly absent in September. While these differences are culturally-informed, they also exist because of public policy decisions. As a result, there is less pressure to do so.

Globalization 8

Globalization Team Management Absenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba projects a population of 10.8 In 2013 in U.S. They’re colossally impressive in the management of politics. If its political leaders can manage to lift constraints on investment, create the right incentives, and reform its tax code, the country could really boom. million in 2030. million in 2030.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

One resulting project was ‘KFC Kalendar,’ an advertising campaign that showcased community events and public service announcements to diverse communities. Corporate cultures depend upon real-time conditions, projected outcomes and policies that promote steady growth.). You don’t know the torch I bear.

Franchising 65

Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? This was a $1.2

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. We wanted to take a deeper look at some of the more abstract aspects of workplace design that can impact employee performance.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

The crescendo of concern is shaping public discourse, policy debate, and private experimentation through commitments such as the $472 million made to higher education by the Gates Foundation since 2006. They know well that only what gets effectively measured gets properly managed. The data show a modest rise to 4.8%

Education 9

Education Learning-by-Doing Survey Skills 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

Public project labor agreements (PLAs) provide another hurdle, unless their employees choose to pay union dues. Bush’s prohibition on the requirement for project labor agreements on federal projects. Republican Governor Christie is a union supporter, who is up for re-election in November, 2013.

Project 50

Project Human Resources Cost Conflict of Interest 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. Absolutely.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

A few organizations in the PR industry have overtly sold their ability to “create and fix Wikipedia pages” in ways that violate the very spirit and purpose of the Wikipedia project. The statement , published today, commits our organizations to act in adherence to Wikipedia’s guiding principles, policies, and guidelines.

PR 8

PR Public Relations Conflict of Interest Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Either way, employers will know who did not agree to the testing and would be allowed to fine noncompliant employees, up to 30% for nonsmokers and 50% for smokers, but now those percentages could be multiplied by the cost of the full family policy, rather than the individual employee’s. There are health and savings arguments.

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Moreover, the immigration policies put forward by the Trump administration do not readily distinguish between Muslim and Arab identities — both appear to be targeted. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02 It turns out that the U.S. Of the total U.S.

Innovation 14

Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

How can managers set and enforce flexibility policies that are fair to everyone? Though people’s reasons for needing flexibility at work may differ, the principles for managing that flexibility are the same. If you have a work-from-home policy, it should be reason-neutral.

Management 2

Management Policies Bottom-up Handbook 2

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". a backdoor approach to climate policy took over. In reality, both views were right. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? respondents, a hypothetical trade policy in which the trading partner country gains 1,000 jobs and the U.S. On the front pages of major U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Unfortunately for the accused, they are students — not engineers or project managers — and the professor meant to ban such collaboration in his instructions to the test. I don't know what hard skills I may need in 2030, 2020, or even 2013. In a business, that's the kind of tension that managers have to negotiate.

Education 9

Education Incentives Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 9