Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2016

Sutton’s bestselling books include: Start Your Own Corporation , Loopholes of Real Estate , and Finance Your Own Business. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Garrett Sutton is an author and asset protection attorney based in Reno, Nevada. You just finished reading Is Your Business a Commodity or a Resource? !

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. But they don’t know how to get there.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. Want to learn more about what diving can teach managers about navigating risk? Additional reporting by David Waller.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. were able to access paid family leave in 2016. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory. Changes at the surface create small, local differences. We need to be more like Oracle.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

One evening in February 2016, writer and filmmaker Ava DuVernay met with two top Disney executives about the possibility of directing an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. When we think of good managers, research suggests , we usually think of men. Monzino/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” In light of this, we think the pressing question isn’t whether managers and CEOs should care about advancing society’s goals, but how they do so most effectively.

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 , “As technology makes data-driven HR decision-making a possibility, 77 percent of executives now rate people analytics as a key priority, up slightly from last year.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The immediate emotional response may be to wait until all the details are available and carefully messaged, but it is negligent to withhold information that could help people keep their data and finances safe. It appears Whole Foods had a plan in place as the company reported its most recent breach five days after detection.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Plus he had already contributed to the business literature with his best-selling book High Output Management (1983). By 2016, concepts such as “strategic inflection point” and “strategic dissonance” have become part of the lexicon both in academia and in practice. Here is the last one that helped me.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

.” With this in mind, over time, Joel changed his management style. “No longer was I focusing solely on what I could get done as a manager,” he says. “Eventually, I joined a company that wrote articles about legal operations and management, but I was incredibly bored and frustrated,” he says.

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Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S. ” Meanwhile, the company recruited non-scientist talent from finance, consulting, tech, academia, and political campaigns and inserted them into drug-development roles.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Building and Running the “Farmacy” Since its inception in 2016, this initiative has been a purposeful and iterative learning endeavor. Thus, in addition to receiving standard diabetes medical care, our program patients also participate in 15 hours of group classes on diabetes self-management. The Next Steps.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

CareMore’s longtime focus had been providing patient-centered, managed care to seniors in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Virginia under Medicare Advantage. And in Tennessee, we reduced behavioral-health-related readmissions for our Memphis population from 40% in 2016 to 13% in 2017 and 2018. There were internal doubts as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. TEO Ming Kian , Director at Temasek and Chairman at Vertex Holdings.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2016

Support : Enlist support from other functional areas within the organization, such as marketing, HR, finance and operations, as well as the external support from partners and customers. Sustain : Make the change “stick” through leadership, sales team training, communications, management tools, hiring, new hire onboarding and beyond.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

It’s not a secret that women’s progress into senior leadership roles has been glacially slow. The increase in women’s leadership was most visible in France, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden, which all saw increases of at least 10 percentage points. That hasn’t happened.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company. Nabob, you’re a feisty fella. competitors are entering the market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. But in April, just after U.S. Who gets H-1Bs?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) The finance sector has also been active in responding on all five occasions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

The 2016 U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. million to the U.S.

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