HR Digest

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Thirty-five Uber drivers had filed a case in 2016 arguing that they were not self-employed but very much ruled by Uber as it controlled their customers, dictated fares and much of their time, including ratings and more. In a long-running legal lasting three rounds, Uber had finally appealed to the Supreme Court.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 29, 2019

The firms have traditionally operated in decidedly unglamorous fields, whose markets have seemed unduly narrow, but by ascending to global dominance of those fields, the companies have been tremendously successful. Data economy. This gap is even more pronounced when assessing people with over ten years experience in industry.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Franchising is a the ultimate definition of scale where a business owner removes themselves completely from operational responsibilities in order to become a coach to others who wish to enter the world of entrepreneurship. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. billion and a boat that is larger than some countries.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Nissan’s market share in Japan had stalled at just 16 percent, it was faring little better abroad, and losses were mounting everywhere.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success. They simply get a letter from me every two years and call me when they wish.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 15, 2016

And because customer spend tends to increase over time, it may well be cheaper to serve long-term customers than keep attracting new ones. Their services are based on more sophisticated interactions between staff and clients, and long-term business relationships may well be an essential part of the value proposition.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Operations are sound, professional and productive. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Resistance from the Supplier.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. You must establish your own identity, which is a long, exacting process. Long-term success must be earned. The worst bosses do not sustain long careers at the top. Professional enrichment must be life-long.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Do something well and commit to long-term excellence. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Understand conflicting societal goals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Lobbying for policy reform isn’t much of an answer, because incumbents generally have the benefit of long-term relationships with government agencies built up over many years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack. They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher. The continent’s long-term potential remains attractive, but a company’s success in the current environment will depend on its strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

70-90% of coral dying), but is far better for us than 2 degrees (both in terms of overall well-being and economic impacts). The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations. Keeping the world at 1.5 Getting to 1.5 auto industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

In management terms, it needs a value proposition , a business model , and a strategy. For instance, Instagram launched Stories, a feature seemingly derivative of Snapchat, in August 2016. That puts him firmly on one side of the long-running strategy debate. To be successful, a company needs to provide something customers want.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Yet, when the marketing team suggested that Cabot become a certified B Corporation, I was skeptical. “There’s nothing wrong with serving your own interests as well as those of the broader community, but…consumers want to see…a long-term investment in doing the right thing, and doing it successfully,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. According to Williamson, a current concern among many institutional investors as well as corporations is that long-term investments in R&D have little payoff. R&D Seldom Walks Out the Door.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio. In Year One, we have avoided 1.5 By 2030, we expect to reduce our carbon-footprint equivalent to the energy used by 4.6 million homes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images. Challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Most of the so-called unicorns — startups achieving billion-dollar valuations — are platforms: markets that connects buyers, sellers, and others, with the platform standing between them. Platform markets have been around for centuries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. Such companies tend to generate less growth and value in the long run.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. ” When she sensed that the experts were not listening to each other, she intervened.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In addition, highly successful companies — those who are leaders in their market and have surpassed revenue expectations — are the most likely to adopt this compensation policy. Blanket or company-wide compensation adjustments or payments don’t work to increase retention in the long run. Start with market rate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography. Yes, there might be a niche group who are underserved, but as long as what ultimately matters is who else is on the same platform, no entrant who targets just that niche will be able to do any competitive damage.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. Here’s one of his bullet points: “Multi-year brand awareness-building and marketing campaigns contributed to 23X customer acquisition and >90% YOY customer retention.” ” Résumé Story.

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