Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

Another was Geri Thomas, former Chief Diversity Officer at Bank of America, started at the bank when she was a sophomore at Georgia State (and the bank was still Citizens and Southern National). Both women came from educated parents (Drew Jarvis’s father was a physician and researcher who pioneered blood banks).

Banking 12

Banking Bond Diversity Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

But far less attention has been paid to how the bank actively discouraged whistleblowing. Do you learn from the mistakes of your peers, so that if other banks report problems, you investigate whether your employees have raised similar complaints? If a tipoff about a brewing problem surfaces, do you look for similar issues elsewhere?

Management 8

Management Ethics Banking Tips 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

London's Daily Mail likewise derided the banking giant for " tak[ing] the sexiness out of the City." Women, certainly, struggle more than men to achieve the look of leadership, a factor that contributes to their overall stall in middle- and upper-middle management.

EPS 15

EPS Banking Handbook Micromanagement 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

McKinsey may have been hired in 2013 by the Vatican, the Bank of England, and the owners of the Rangers and Knicks, but they’re also acting to stave off threats to their business model. Its practitioners are the modernization of the much-maligned yet depended-upon middle manager.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

I did that for years," Karp recalls, all the while knowing that coming out could jeopardize her career in investment banking. "It While the numbers of out and closeted LGBTs in middle management are roughly the same — 51% out, 49% not — their ongoing career paths diverge wildly. It was torture.".

Cost 14

Cost Banking Career Wilde 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Instead, management implicitly assumes the information is being used, and used optimally. ” Every middle manager is familiar with the requirement for a 130- slide deck of tables, graphs and charts in the appendix for presentations to top executives. How much do they spend on mandatory competition review?

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. A hallmark of the successful 32% was the involvement of mid-level managers two or more levels below the CEO.

Middle Management 14

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

it's the behavior of industrial age institutions — corporations, banks, governments — that's the invisible fist of this great crisis. I'd say that they're about habits — and especially about breaking the less than beneficial ones. So here's a thought. As I've argued here and in my book (officially published today !),

Organization 15

Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

I feel like at the senior leadership and the middle manager level failure is this awful thing. I had to turn up one day and tell him, I had absolutely screwed up a bank negotiation on the part of our biggest client, and I thought he was going to kill me.

Brainstorming 60

Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Such an environment enables businesses to move, manage, and mobilize the ever-increasing amount of data across the organization for consumption faster than previously possible. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects. For example, a U.S.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

If a test finds problems, it can tell developers whom to contact to resolve them – directly, without using middle managers. Industries that rely to a great extent on software-based services, such as banking, are not far behind, with a rising number of competitors building and testing new products online.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Development Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8