Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

.” Indeed, the gig economy has not only turned millions of Americans into contractors, but it’s given the more successful entrepreneurs the tools to grow even faster. In our 2018 EY Growth Barometer, an annual global survey of middle market company leaders, we found some movement away from part-time and gig hiring.

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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. What’s a better approach?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. Even HR itself agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. According to a 2013 CEB study , “only one in four HR organizations have effectively integrated their talent management practices…with the company’s strategic objectives.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Sephora, Carrefour, and Amazon are examples of successful simple brands, despite providing a vast range of options to their customers. A look at the 2013 rebranding of the nonprofit Rotary can supply some clues. Rotary also discovered, through an internal survey, that members had difficulty explaining the nonprofit’s role in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. years in 2013 from 60.3 Of course, age isn’t everything; nor is having a digitally-savvy non-executive director a guarantee of success for your digital transformation.). in 2003, an all-time high. (Of

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

When, eventually, sequestration has passed and Washington and its watchers have moved on to the next big debate, alongside all the recriminations there will be this: the familiar calls for government to demonstrate more of the effectiveness that we see in the most successful private sector companies. The clamor won't be altogether misguided.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 2013, we created a global Social Media Center of Expertise (CoE), staffed by about 600 people in five regions from the marketing, communications, and customer care teams, with the goal of enhancing the company’s market-based decision making (part of CEO Mary Barra’s mantra of earning customers for life ). Keep it simple.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. Many established firms— a 2017 Deloitte survey suggested about 20% in the U.S.—are These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In a 2013 survey of nearly 700 executives across a variety of industries, our firm asked respondents to rate the effectiveness of the top leaders of their companies. In these roles, you operate at a fine-grained level of detail so that you can see, sense, and touch the details of everyday activity. DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR.

Execution 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To determine the best approach to using ICT for development (or ICT4D, as it’s sometimes called), Huawei recently interviewed 150 telecom operators, government bodies, regulators, NGOs, and social enterprises in 11 countries. These success stories cannot remain the exception. Currently 1.2

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. As a group, the largest U.S. But the future trajectory of U.S.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

But here’s what is most surprising to many about the marijuana industry: It’s filled with straight-laced people who built careers – and started successful companies – in other fields. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And I still do now.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In our survey research , a mere 7% of executives said that their company’s digital initiatives were helping them to launch new businesses. What successful companies are doing right. GE is moving to an outcome-based economic model, bringing the company closer to its customers’ operations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Sephora, Carrefour, and Amazon are examples of successful simple brands, despite providing a vast range of options to their customers. A look at the 2013 rebranding of the nonprofit Rotary can supply some clues. Rotary also discovered, through an internal survey, that members had difficulty explaining the nonprofit’s role in the world.

Brand 8

Brand Survey Globalization Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Initially, the program seemed to be a success: staff members understood and followed the practices. By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. PACU nurse ratings of each handoff, care provider surveys, observations, patient medical records). The Six Stages.

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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. Need more evidence?

Politics 8

Politics 360-Degree Feedback Skills Seminar 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2013, Accenture suggested that 20 to 30 percent of the total workforce falls outside the organization’s traditional full-time, permanent employment relationship. Too often, purchasing departments manage the selection while operating managers—not involved in selection by fiat—are expected to make the relationship work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Case in point: Ford is planning to introduce at least five new models after seeing a 33% increase in sales in the first half of 2013 in Nigeria.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days. 1 form of self-expression.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” In other words, Bunge views success as the result of exercise and work going hand-in-hand. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of CEOs finishing at least one marathon doubled, and in a Swedish survey of nearly 3,000 managers , more than 90% said that physical exercise had a positive impact on their leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Business leaders believe a strong organizational culture is critical to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magic force that few know how to control. One 2013 study illustrates this well. How to Measure Total Motivation We survey employees of an organization, asking six questions–one for each motive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent. For instance, a data center operator might make a skills pivot that could lead to a role as a data scientist as some at AT&T have done.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

According to a Kauffman Foundation study , 72% of entrepreneurs surveyed come from self-described middle class backgrounds, and another 22%reported being from upper lower class backgrounds. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As Wharton professor Adam Grant put it in a recent New York Times editorial, “[w]hen friends work together they’re more trusting and committed to one another’s successes. A 2013 HBR article by Christine Riordan likewise reported the many ways that workplace friendship increases job satisfaction and engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Just in the last month, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on Lyft and Uber operations.

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Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Boston Consulting Group’s list, which relies heavily on surveys asking senior executives to name the companies they perceive to be innovative, risks succumbing to the halo effect, where generally successful companies are assumed to be good at everything. It has subsequently launched three successive disruptive business models.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

” She continues: “Since 2013, two incidents of sexual harassment have been identified. These are companies you might have enormous influence over, even if they don’t technically operate under your management. Will there be annual climate surveys and audits of how your partners are doing?

Supply Chain 8

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. In sharp contrast, European network operators who are unable to recover their investments continue to fall farther behind. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU. The result is that the U.S.

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Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." Utility, customization, and segmentation are key to the success of mobile marketing to women in the developing world.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. 1) Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project Spring Tracking Survey 2013. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P., Badger J.M.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The enterprise was a hotspot of disruption, with WorkDay having one of the most successful IPOs of 2012, Square establishing itself as a clear leader in the race to develop disruptive payments solution, and Kiva Systems' $775 million acquisition by Amazon.com validating its disruptive warehousing solution. 3-D printing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. We’ve observed time and again in 360-degree feedback surveys that women executives believe politics present a particular dilemma for them.

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Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. Diaspora can play a crucial role in this process for three reasons: They often achieve above-average success in immigrant communities, and wield influence across many levels of society. Create engagement opportunities at all levels.

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