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.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. Could I see the future as a projection of the strides I’ve been able to make, similar to what other women in business have done?

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! presents High Performing Organizations Manage Change Well. Regardless of the talent management and retention strategies you employ, this post shares three tips that will help you build a foundation of trust with your top performers.”. Karin Hurt.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

We often: • Overestimate our contribution to a project; • Have an elevated opinion of our professional skills and standing among our peers; • Exaggerate our project’s impact on profitability by discounting real and hidden costs. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client. ” What, or who, will open the door?

Management 8

Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. Compensation committees often start by tying bonuses and long-term incentives to goals related to compliance and risk management.

Execution 10

Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion worldwide.

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Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s common to see surveys, polls, and reports showing that “most” organizations are embracing big data. 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?

ROI 9

ROI Maturity How To CRM 9

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.

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Long-term Janis Quality Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The BWPO has a central team, led by its chief medical officer, responsible for “medical management” — a term used to describe efforts to improve clinical care and succeed in contractual obligations related to performance measurement. Over years, the medical management team built strong ties to PCPs. Grant Project.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Document Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Though many HR managers would take exception to those findings, they do, overwhelmingly, want more of a strategic voice than they have now. These areas fall under the fourth rubric, business partner, because their managers need a strong understanding of strategic priorities in order to recruit, prepare, and engage employees to meet them.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. Clash of expectations.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

How to Manage a Toxic Employee. Rather than “saving” feedback for annual performance reviews, make discussions about what someone did well, and what he or she could do differently, a part of every supervision meeting or project debrief. You and Your Team Series. Office Politics. Make Your Enemies Your Allies. Annie McKee.

Brainstorming 15

Brainstorming Attrition Policies Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2013, my partners and I conducted a combination of surveys and interviews with over 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings, and one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column was politics. Leadership transitions Managing yourself'

Politics 8

Politics 360-Degree Feedback Skills Seminar 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya. We asked them how many companies in Africa make over $100 million annually.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 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

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Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

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

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. Every organization needs strategic thinkers.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S. and Canada.

Engineering 13

Engineering Stress Career Skills 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

So most executives manage it according to their intuition. After surveying over 20,000 workers around the world, analyzing 50 major companies, conducting scores of experiments, and scouring the landscape of academic research in a range of disciplines, we came to one conclusion: Why we work determines how well we work. Insight Center.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. A survey of its 5,500 U.S.-based Think mechanical Swiss watches, now enjoying strong sales.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

BIPAC conducts extensive biennial studies of employer-employee communications programs through both national polling and surveys within companies deploying such communications. Our Prosperity Project (P2) strategy and platform is the largest and most pervasive business grassroots and advocacy platform in the United States.

Politics 8

Politics Policies Survey Information 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

According to our recent benchmarking survey of more than 100 senior executives, 94% of executives sell at least partially through distributors, accounting for about 50% of their revenue in emerging markets. Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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. Do wearables invade your employees’ privacy?

Company 8

Company Long-term Bureaucracy Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

We’ve used this data for public-health projects such as tracking the impact of the Affordable Care Act in practices , monitoring the spread of influenza, surfacing novel insights about pediatric mental health , and synthesizing the first national map of antibiotic resistance. Growing Digital Business. Sponsored by Accenture.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Until he was fired in 2012, six months shy of his 50 th birthday, he’d done everything right — rising through the ranks of the book publishing industry, from editorial assistant to associate editor to senior editor, then into management as an editor-in-chief. The trick is to start with the immediately, manageably doable and do.

Career 8

Career Long-term Planning Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Most managers assume that customers love getting gifts, especially in front of other people. In fact, a survey of retail managers suggests that a majority think customers are happier getting preferential treatment in public than in private. It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4%

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). Long-term brand performance is affected by many factors, so determining the spend/impact relationship is challenging.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 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. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Big corporations seem to have it especially hard: according to an Accenture survey , only 15% of college students who graduated in 2015 said they would prefer to work for a large company. In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. Boredom seems inevitable.

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Company McKinsey Survey COO 8