Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? How Google Manages Talent. Hacking Tech’s Diversity Problem. Leadership & Managing people Information & technology' It’s Time to Split HR. Do Not Split HR.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

This was the topic of June Edition of #IndiaHRChat in presence of special guest Faisal Hoque – an entrepreneur, author of Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability (McGraw Hill, Spring 2014) and contributor to FastCompany and Huffington Post. You have to craft your own career.

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Agility Leadership Career Short-term 175

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2014

Determining those managerial, behavioral, environmental, programmatic, and technological factors driving overall outcomes is both an art and a science. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 24 – Diverse Metric Groupings. Identifying Precursor Indicators.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. And many diversity programs fail. I asked three questions: Why do you care about diversity?

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

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. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity. The numbers were grim.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Authority on new technology and communication. World authority on project management. It is time now to announce the 100 Coaches. 100 COACHES.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 77

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Digital technology is full of paradox, yet we often tend to under-emphasize or even ignore the paradoxes — often looking at either technology’s problems or its promises, rarely examining both at the same time. But it’s only when we explore both that we gain new insight into what will truly help us harness technology’s economic value.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2014

One of the major STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) debates currently underway today in the United States revolves around whether or not there is, in fact, a STEM workforce shortage in the country. Diversion of STEM degree holders away from traditional STEM jobs is a real problem for STEM companies.

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Survey Human Resources Engineering Diversity 50

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

In 2014 I presented a paper at the 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar on the topic of “ Understanding and Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare.” that is taking on the transformation of healthcare management. I’m still hopeful, now more than ever. I’ve seen these movements before.

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Deming Influence System Seminar 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? Now, you will have to translate your strategic thinking into a value creation plan that your management team and board will embrace. Starbucks applies its capabilities in talent management and distinctive retailing to everything it does.

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Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The cognitive and emotional demands on managers have rarely been more complicated or intense. One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012.

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Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. Indeed, Ukraine’s troubles offered an opportunity to build the leadership capacity of my management team.

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Crisis Management Contingency Plans Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Innovation Centers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. We found that in 2014 almost 60% of these firms had no female board members, just over half had no female C-suite executives, and fewer than 5% had a female CEO. However, it is not just a matter of getting women to the very top ranks of management. Yet in the U.S.

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Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As Egon Zehnder’s just-released 2014 Global Board Index found, 37% of the revenue generated by companies in the S&P 500 now comes from international sources, an increase of 5.5% But boardroom diversity had not kept pace with the demands of international business activity. Boards Global business Leadership Talent management'

Globalization 14

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job? I set out to learn whether that was still the case.

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Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

As organizations collect increasingly large and diverse data sets, the demand for skilled data scientists will continue to rise. Now that companies are dealing with larger and more complex data sets, however, this old way of managing data is impractical. IT management Technology'

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Analysis Agility Tools Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

This isn’t surprising, given other research about the performance of diverse teams; it’s a timely reminder of the importance of increasing female entrepreneurship and of the opportunity that VCs may be missing by continuing to disproportionately fund white men. A good argument can be made that technology favors the young.

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Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Second, many companies have invested substantial time and money in establishing uncompromising core values such as diversity and inclusion. For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) The technology sector takes the lead. CEOs (usually) do the talking themselves. .”

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CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Could technology help? Alternatively, it could be that because of behavioral biases, management is not able to select effective directors as well as an algorithm.

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Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 8

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?

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. .” We’ve all had to adapt. We also looked beyond music for insights.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

How can companies better manage the process of converting the potential of data science to real business outcomes? By early 2014, 130 people from diverse scientific and managerial backgrounds were devoting themselves to realizing the team’s mission: To be a catalyst for evidence-based decision making across AIG.

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Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We see this especially in women’s levels of confidence and engagement, their degree of risk tolerance, and the level of diversity in the financial services industry across the region. “Even in rural India, women manage the households and pay the bills,” she says. ” While women in the U.S.

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Survey Telecommunications Diversity Focus Group 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The results of the 2014 survey — to which 89 U.S.-based Another indication that near-shoring is accelerating is the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology). While 33.6% companies responded that they were “definitively” planning to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

Before the 2014 graduates embark on their collective journey into workplaces still struggling to adapt to changing demographics, senior generations would benefit by heeding advice from the Millennials’ perspective. Do not expect this exceptionally large, diverse, and educated young generation to walk into your workplace and assimilate.

Human Resources 9

Human Resources Travel Audience Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. Today Atis manages L’Oréal’s Women of Color Lab, in Clark, New Jersey.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

For example, take Deana, a UX designer at a large tech company who was looking to build the case for her promotion to manager. In Spring 2014, she flew to Guatemala to volunteer her user experience and design skills with a social enterprise looking to build an e-commerce platform for its locally and sustainably crafted supplies.

How To 8

How To Document Career Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

In 2014, are we witnessing a trickle-down effect? Among international companies, China’s country operations are routinely more gender balanced in management than many of their Western counterparts. Yet after decades of both gender and diversity work, is 20% of top executive posts enough to be considered balance?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. The drastic drop in oil prices has obscured these issues, but they will continue to constrain growth even if oil prices recover.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. “The workers coming in on H-1Bs are a diverse crowd,” Hanson says.

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

According to a report by Kaspersky Labs, Brazil was ranked the most dangerous country for financial attacks in 2014, and the Brazilian ChePro Trojans were ranked the second-most-widespread malicious program after ZeuS. Cybercriminals are diverse and constantly changing.

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