Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB), the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Second, young businesses tend to grow faster than older ones, but also fail at greater rates. Our data include about 950 businesses.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. Lloyds Banking Group was caught in the eye of the financial storm and tied up in public ownership. Selling the Games promised to be just as difficult. Partners were receptive.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Others, such as ANZ, the Australian-based banking giant, have committed to adopting Agile at scale in less than a year, following some of the proven practices used by Spotify , the music streaming company. For too long, business objectives and management philosophies have focused on efficiency over productivity.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? In an ethical organization, talent management is a transparent and objective process — everyone gets a fair shake. Do you talk to the boss?

Ethics 11

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Leaving on a Jet Plane (but Just for the Week) Don’t Get Around Much Anymore Human Resource Executive Fewer people are moving for jobs today — and when people do move, not many are citing work as the reason. An excerpt: "Having been enslaved for 250 years, black people were not left to their own devices. They were terrorized.

Letter 8

Letter Maturity Discount Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Tribes are defined as a group of people who feel emotionally connected, share a mutual interest, and organize different aspects of their personal and professional lives jointly, with the goal of fulfilling a common objective that is good for the community. Allowing tribes to form and act on a shared purpose.

Globalization 8

Globalization Consultative Learning-by-Doing Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Innovation consultancies tend to have a preferred methodology for working with their clients, such as human centered design (also called ‘design thinking,’ popularized by IDEO, Continuum, Frog Design and others), Lean Start-up, or analytical models used by large management consulting firms.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. The scenario was motivated by the true story of an investment banker whose trading practices ultimately drove his bank to insolvency.

Ethics 15

Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 15

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Branch 3: Accounting, banking, investments, financial planning, benefits programs, real estate, fund raising for non-profit organizations and investor relations services for public companies. The objective is to benefit from changes, rather than become the victim of them.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Certain kinds of objective information cannot come from within your own camp. Human resources management. For project purchases, such as printing, graphic production, video production and materials creation, consultants customarily mark up slightly, to cover bank financing and handling costs. It’s lonely at the top.

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Michael Banks/Getty Images. Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. But one need not be a human resource manager, or even a woman, to promote gender equality. Several positions, however, remain dominated by men.

Management 10

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

It's not about a bank. It's about life, tragedy, and human potential. Unless you believe that Abraham Lincoln, too, for a few extra bucks, might have joined Barclays as a Senior Advisor for "Human Resources.". Faintly, in the distance, we protest, we shout, we object. This scandal isn't about price-fixing.

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

By parsing ROE into the DuPont Equation (very rapidly to become a business school mainstay), he provided the basis for organizations divided into functions with their own objectives. That is to say, he created objectives with such strong feedback loops that they were pursued single-mindedly, even to unhealthy excess.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12