HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

There have been no signs of industry-wide moves to start hiring outside of the U.S. The Core team being affected by the Google layoffs includes engineers who handle the foundation of the company’s flagship products, oversee user safety online, and maintain the company’s global IT infrastructure. According to Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

CEO Interview: Sam Walsh. This edition of the CEO interview features Sam Walsh, the recently retired CEO, of Rio Tinto. The company global headquarters are in London, United Kingdom (Rio Tinto Plc) with the Australian Headquarters in Melbourne, Australia (Rio Tinto Ltd). (as featured in mining.com).

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

With their industry transforming before their very eyes, what are the lessons for leaders? But it’s the opposite of what’s needed to drive the things the financial industry needs right now – in particular, innovation. In any industry it’s hard to innovate and change from within. When was the last time you visited a bank branch?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. There’s no single CEO-like entity and no hierarchy for single accountability. In the U.S., Recall how the U.S.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG. Like this article? Why not share it.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Since its inception, the peer-to-peer lending industry has moved ahead at warp speed. percent, despite the global pandemic crisis. Here’s why P2P lending is an ideal business financing option for startups and SMEs. vele , the CEO of Swaper for details. The P2P lending market was valued at $67.93 There Are No Hidden Costs.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CMI Hong Kong supports Futures of Education Forum 2022 Derek Choi (fourth from left) attended the forum and the opening ceremony on behalf of CMI Hong Kong CMI Hong Kong was a supporting party for the UNESCO Hong Kong Association Global Peace Centre's Futures of Education Forum and its associated survey this year.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Non-profit CEOs. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It is also the only company in the finance industry to have bucked the trend of bringing gender parity in the boardroom. In 2020, American Express achieved 100% pay equity for colleagues across genders globally and across races and ethnicities in the United States. . Monique leads all colleague experience functions globally. .

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2023

According to Yahoo Finance, there are only four openly gay CEOs atop Fortune 500 companies. To try to answer those questions, we invited Jim Fielding, an openly gay entertainment-industry executive, to be a guest on The New World of Work. That’s up from zero in 2014, when Apple’s Tim Cook came out.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Mike Myatt : What if anything have you found to be a common misperception about the coaching industry? Eric Shinseki, former Army Chief of Staff, Alan Mulally, CEO of the Ford Motor Company, and Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts. I help people understand this and act upon it.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 13, 2022

Even in an industry as seemingly snooze-inducing as accounting, invigorating leadership is indispensable. Cultivating authentic human relationships is crucial to honing your leadership skills. Jackie Meyer has worked with some lackadaisical bosses in her field over the years.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2019

Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of founders, CEOs, and presidents of companies. Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. Often, these executives are a part of my network. I call this obstacle The Disconnect.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I was determined to beat the normal ramp-up to profitability in the publishing industry. Because I was used to moving at breakneck speed and expecting immediate returns, I felt we could outperform the publishing industry norm. I did not heed the advice of industry experts with superlative track records.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Robotic Process Automation (RPA), the practice of applying computerized applications to perform routine, task-oriented business processes, has become the standard in many businesses, globally. You must be able to adapt to the ever-changing market and create new products and services based on consumers’ demands and finances.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. In response to the accelerating disruption and change of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a chorus of advice to leaders is urging them to make their organizations more nimble, adaptable, flex­ible, dynamic and, yes, agile. You talk about the agile mindset and the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

New research by RHR international shows which executives incoming CEOs are likely to replace, and highlights some differences between first-time CEOs and more seasoned chief executives. I interviewed Dr. David Astorino, Global Practice Leader for Senior Team Effectiveness, about the findings. They tend to wait too long.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. About the Interviews I wanted to select a diverse group of CEOs from a range of companies that varied by size and industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy. Click on the table below to see at full size.).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We earned a 13% return — not bad by industry standards — but we failed to change the company much. We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. The team was polite and respectful.

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Leading Blog

JULY 3, 2023

. * * * Jeff Skipper is an international change leadership consultant for organizations in energy, finance, technology, and other industries. As CEO he grew a transformation services company to seven figures in just five years. As CEO he grew a transformation services company to seven figures in just five years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise. I don’t mean to downplay culture, as a diverse corporate culture is something to be strived for, but only if quality is not sacrificed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

There was a time when the American steel industry seemed invincible. The American automotive industry looked rock-solid. American consumer electronics industry seemed untouchable. In every one of these cases, global competition changed the game forever. Tim Robberts/Getty Images. Bottom line: U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

For example, I have worked closely with a professional services organization where a domineering, controlling CEO led the organization spectacularly for 20 years. Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. This appears to explain events at the industrial company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. The GE model dates back at least to the reign of Reginald Jones as CEO in the 1970s. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Everyone knows that large companies share board members, but it’s hard to appreciate just how enmeshed global governance has been for decades until you see the connections. We plotted shared directorships among 176 large companies in 1976 and 2013, two years that followed a major global economic crisis. SOURCE Eelke M.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Too few businesses have sought to make a systemic approach to public policy an important dimension of their global posture. Even with strong CEO direction, subordinate business leaders who are crucial to its success may not share the commitment or invest in the expertise or understand the time required. A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

For instance, the Swedish company Ericsson (a global provider of communications equipment, software, and services) defines its vision as being “the prime driver in an all-communicating world.”. The global logistics and mail service company TNT Express illustrates the difference in its use of both terms.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up. Similarly, equipment maintenance technicians need more than just the know-how to diagnose and troubleshoot industrial equipment. But Tesla fell far short of that mark, manufacturing just 2,000 vehicles a week.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. The Global Digital Economy. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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