HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. If our equitable compensation program guide is to be trusted, you need to identify relevant external benchmarks to understand prevailing salary ranges for similar roles in the market.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s. Strategy That Works. Add to Cart.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. But a career professor? pretty much ever since.

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

. “After board dinners, we inevitably sit around and talk about our kids and their careers,” Dave Calhoun recently told me. The truth is, it’s difficult to advise kids about how careers really work today and how to get any job, much less a great job. This the Career Triangle.

Career 8

Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the “ Scientific Background ” essay on Tirole’s work provided by the Nobel committee, the focus is on Tirole’s work on industry structure, which has had a big impact on antitrust and other regulation, especially in Europe. Then, in 2006, came The Theory of Corporate Finance — not a field Tirole had really been known for. Since when?

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. One of my participants, a 35-year-old marketing manager named Dave, offered a clue. Olu isn’t in a career that requires him to wear a suit, but what could his artistic and creative talent bring to a more corporate environment?

Fashion 12

Fashion Participative Class Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. He now had only one major—and very vocal—opponent: Vera Hoch, the head of the audit committee.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. And he was considered an expert!

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 293