HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation not only reflect a healthy work culture , they also allow employees to commit better to their roles. Employees who believe they are paid fairly are more willing to give back to the organization and retain their position there. Those who feel unfairly compensated move on.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But what if there were a way to make breakthrough progress by applying research-based tools and strategies to boost these numbers faster? They were four years older, when compared with benchmark data, before becoming CEO and brought more-diverse functional and industry experience to the position.

CEO 8

CEO Benchmarking Mentor Career 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Our employees consistently tell us that doing meaningful work, and being part of an organization that makes a positive impact, is very important to them. What DE&I strategies have helped C. The HR Digest: C. Within C.H.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

This idea infused platforms like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI), influencing corporate accounting, stakeholder engagement and, increasingly, strategy. Worse, we have conspicuously failed to benchmark progress across these options, on the basis of their real-world impact and performance.

TBL 10

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

If you want to know how to be best positioned for business success, you have to understand where they are going. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark.

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

An "earn-your-way" strategy is sometimes necessary in markets with high uncertainty or when a company is cash-strapped. But when leaders take this conservative growth approach even when there is reasonable certainty of success and available financing, they undersize their sales forces and forfeit opportunity. A Better Approach.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

For example, it may be the case that a manager needs to exert a large amount of pressure on a team to get something done by using the power of their position over others. Consider a mid-sized advertising agency that was implementing a new growth strategy. Get benchmark information from surveys and specialist experts.

Politics 13

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If the first possibility prevails, then it's hard to see how the short-term hit to profits created by political instability could subsequently be made up (unless an investor were granted some favor that created or locked in a favorable market position).

NPV 13

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

Might we expose our strategy to competitors? Assess competitive benchmarks : Identify the quality “floor” of your offer. If you’re in automotive, you might look at other highly regulated industries, like healthcare and finance, which manage to experiment considerably despite stringent regulatory environments.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. However, there may also be positive effects to common ownership. Twenty years ago, BlackRock and Vanguard were only very rarely among the top ten shareholders of any firm.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. As I learned at the conference, according to Terra Technology's benchmarking study , the error rate for CPG companies on estimated vs. actual sales is shockingly high. But inventory is not a minor issue.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. She knew that to have a role in steering strategy, she had to earn the trust of her CEO and board. “To Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. Facebook even amended its S-1 to acknowledge to acknowledge the risks to its advertising business from increasing adoption of the mobile format.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. Unfortunately, however, this put her in a tough position.

Ethics 8

Ethics How To Morale Information 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. How do I strengthen my market position through acquisitions and innovation? What are the challenges and lessons of scaling up?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8