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.

CFO 12

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. They are not employees; they are contingent workers who are nonetheless vital to an organization’s R&D, marketing, and other key processes.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Cross-border data flows have grown by a factor of 45 over the past decade, and they’re projected to post another ninefold increase by 2020. trillion in 2014 alone. For businesses, these open platforms create efficient global markets with a huge base of potential customers and built-in ways to reach them.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. Overall marijuana sales in states where cannabis is legal could double in 2014 to hit $3 billion, according to our estimates, as Colorado and Washington begin selling cannabis to adults 21 and over. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. Their evolving brands, Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks continue to be strong contributors to 2014’s revenue of $4.5

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Team-specific human capital is important too: when people move together, they tend to do better than when they do it alone. Boris has also found that starting something new in a new company (what he calls “exploration”) is much harder than taking over an existing project, team or unit (“exploitation”). An HBR Insight Center.

How To 8

How To Banking Human Resources COO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

In 2014, Michael Callahan, then head of customer experience at Hulu, had a mystery on his hands. Measuring Marketing Insights. At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

An aggressive HMO was aggressively moving into the market, cutting prices offered to employers. They chose Fremont because it was in the thick of the market changes and had outstanding physician leadership. (I studied its model-cell work for my book Management on the Mend.) Create a core team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Our human resources department takes care of that. We have annual sales projections. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

Budgeting 74

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

This figure is likely to decline as genetic testing technology improves and more vendors get into the market. For instance, the commercially insured population suffered 158,895 heart attacks and had 126,710 diabetes-specific admissions in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available. What type of genetic tests are involved?

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9