HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

What advice can a global HR leader give to small businesses treading the economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic? We’ve hired nearly 7,000 employees across the country since mid-March 2020. How to create positive change in company diversity? What is the role of HR in driving the diversity agenda?

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Diversity Real Estate Agility 52

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

The standard thinking suggests that wage inequality tends to increase as technical progress advances, as the march of technology raises the premium on skilled labor, and dulls the negotiating power of unskilled labor as technology increasingly takes the work they used to do. When the researchers assessed the U.K. An innovation premium.

Skills 80

Skills Emotional Intelligence Stress Storytelling 80

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Catch up here.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

It’s obvious that emerging markets are facing severe headwinds. A direct result has been depreciation in emerging market currencies. A direct result has been depreciation in emerging market currencies. 2015 will be the first year since the 1980s to see capital outflows from the emerging markets exceed capital inflows.

Marketing 8

Marketing Depreciation Globalization Analysis 8

Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Her intriguing style will captivate you from the start; lead you through a model, practical advice, and workshop activities; and leave you wondering how quickly you can implement one of her brilliant ideas. Phil Gerbyshak , author, speaker and VP of Sales and Marketing for Advisology. Believe it: You CAN double the love!”

Books 63

Books Chief Technology Officer Chief Executive Officer Open-book 63

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Her intriguing style will captivate you from the start; lead you through a model, practical advice, and workshop activities; and leave you wondering how quickly you can implement one of her brilliant ideas. Phil Gerbyshak , author, speaker and VP of Sales and Marketing for Advisology. Believe it: You CAN double the love!”

Books 40

Books Chief Technology Officer Chief Executive Officer Open-book 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Online and algorithmic investment and financial advice is easy to come by these days, usually under the moniker of “robo-advisor.” Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In 18 short months, search engine Google erased 85 percent of the market cap of the top GPS companies after launching its mobile maps app. Alibaba , China’s equivalent to Amazon, became a $16 billion lender in less than three years, and China’s largest seller of money market funds in only seven months.

Banking 10

Banking Retail Finance Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

As AT&T CEO and Chair Randall Stephenson, recently told the New York Times, “There is a need to retool yourself, and you should not expect to stop… People who do not spend five to 10 hours a week in online learning will obsolete themselves with the technology.” To atrophy is to lose in the market. Insight Center.

Stephenson 8

Stephenson Company Agility Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Just as the notion of a 50-year linear career with a single company or in one industry is outdated, so is the idea that career advice must come from a wise old sage. If you are working with the old definition, you may be confused about how to get the advice you need. But mentoring has changed a lot in the last few decades.

Mentor 16

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Mr. Moon (as Susan had been told to call him by her half-Korean father, Don) was the Seoul office manager of Zantech, a technology security firm with headquarters in Amsterdam. In an industry expected to generate $170 billion in revenue by 2020, she knew she’d have many opportunities. This was one of their routines.

Case Study 8

Case Study Follow-up Ethics CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

But last month the country also indicated coal use would rise until 2020 (albeit at a slower rate than the growth of renewables). Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8