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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. They are eager to learn new skills and take on additional responsibilities and bigger challenges.

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Asian Americans Are the Least Likely Group in the U.S. to Be Promoted to Management

Harvard Business Review

” A similar finding with New York banks was reported in Bloomberg Businessweek last year. Several years ago, one global energy company commissioned an internal task force to review the status of women and minorities in its leadership pipeline. As one example, Goldman Sachs reported that 27% of its U.S.

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When Investors Want to Know How You Treat People

Harvard Business Review

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors? Outside the U.S., Largely unnoticed in the U.S.,

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

This company, which stretched into all sorts of industries and markets, offering numerous strategic challenges, should have been an ideal training ground for executives. The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing.