HR Digest

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Time and again, we see reports of how managers are struggling to handle the incoming workforce, and as a result, understanding Gen Z in the workplace has taken a back seat with many choosing to distance themselves from the cohort instead. the Gen Z workforce can also be involved in helping their coworkers with technology.

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Trends Technology Globalization Uncertainty 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Not speed to market. And it created a “bonding budget,” to urge employees to get together outside the workday, build rapport with their peers (many of whom they might only work with virtually), and talk through problems, ideas, and conflicts in person. What keeps most corporate leaders up at night? Not disruption.

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Bond Video Audience Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Whether we like it or not, markets are reshaping our lives. Here’s how leaders can manage these tensions and set up their micromarkets for long-term success. Make it a market, not just a marketplace. Market places are platforms where buyers can display and list their offerings, much like a bazaar. Manage risk.

Management 8

Management Short-term Price Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Whether or not that outlook begins to uptick not only depends upon how agile, adaptable, creative and resourceful entrepreneurs can be in planning for, or reacting to, market conditions, revenue and brand-building opportunities and other key concerns, but also how well they maintain a forward-thinking mindset.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Loyalty Airlines Advertising 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it? Take a doctor’s office.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

Lean is a powerful management tool, but having the “exact” number for efficiently doing the “work” of today jeopardizes the future by not having “extra” people thinking on it. Efficiency is not innovation. Obsession with listening to the customer.

Innovation 8

Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

An extensive study of 80 software development teams with programmers from the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia proved that virtual teams can lead to increased efficiency and better business results, but only if they are managed to maximize the potential benefits while minimizing the disadvantages. But here's the rub.

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Team Metrics Project Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

The current business conditions that make a master brand strategy more attractive today are best understood in the context of the benefits that such a strategy delivers: Efficient impact. Because many companies are operating with lower margins today than in the past, they need increased flexibility to better manage costs and inventory.

Advertising 8

Advertising Brand Company Attrition 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? In today’s dog-eat-dog environment, a person’s word isn’t always his or her bond. Do what you say you will, period.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

However, the firm knows that these labor-intensive channels limit the number of possible relationships and appeal primarily to older investors (according to a Deloitte study , the average wealth management client in the U.S. They might also include noteworthy events in financial markets, such as the aforementioned Brexit vote.

System 8

System Short-term Industry Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market. The ethereum smart contract platform now has a market cap of around a billion dollars , with hundreds of projects headed toward the market.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise. Intensity and immediacy of impact.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

First, the teams behind winning apps tend to be composed of the organizations' best techno-marketing talent, people with deep understanding of social media. Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages.

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer. As a result, some governments and private foundations have introduced social impact bonds to provide the necessary working capital. Making PbR Work.

Incentives 8

Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

But there are also implications for organizational design and talent management for firms of all sizes. While social stuff is often associated with marketing or customer service, social can affect every part of the business model , including how we organize. The implications for global education are huge, of course.

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Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The raw wafer for an iPhone chip might have been processed in Texas before it was shipped to a factory in Taiwan to be diced into individual chips and tested, then wire bonded into a package before going to a parts distribution center, before finally making it to that assembly line in Zhengzhou, China. Nearness to market.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Simply put, selvesware helps people identify, manage, and measurably improve their best, most productive selves. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. But why stop with industrial assets?

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Decisions by his predecessors about product features and software standards had led to a deterioration of US market share from 50 percent to just 3 percent in four years. A different kind of decision faces Bill Ackman, a Harvard Business School graduate of 1992 and lead investor of Pershing Square Capital Management.

Influence 8

Influence Politics Price Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Several organizations for whom we had worked or had researched used a technique we call “innovation communities” to structure strategic conversations so that they’re both efficient and effective. They are empowered by – and in frequent communication with – senior management. in less than five years.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

How do you develop an effective relationship with your manager when the person filling that role keeps shifting? Managing your relationship with your boss is challenging enough as it is. . Get involved in your new manager’s orientation process. How much of an investment should you make? What the Experts Say.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Career Case Study Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

The main lesson I learned is that the case against insider trading is much less about specific harms than a belief that it''s bad for financial markets in general. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. This belief is, as already noted, not universally held. And that, really, is the core of the crime.

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. That actually helps charities become more efficient and more useful. So here’s the money management industry. Impact investing creates that feedback, in the instances where it’s done well.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. You're invited to play a real role in influencing the destiny of the company by joining your colleagues in a stock market-based game called "Mutual Fun." As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” Entrepreneurship Strategy Time management'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

“I hadn’t realized how much I cared, how much work mattered to me, until then,” he explained, sharing a feeling I have heard many a manager describe. Each time we ponder, in essence, whether senior management, banking, consulting, entrepreneurship, and statesmanship are compatible with human life. It’s a demon!”

Long-term 8

Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Rogier Maes, the CEO of Contect, wrapped up his year-beginning speech to all the company’s employees.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8