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. What do you think most boards misunderstand or underestimate about human resources? In 2020, American Express achieved the ambitious goal of 100% pay equity in the truest sense of the word.

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Project Globalization Diversity Learning-by-Doing 52

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Women Leaders and Male Partnership In any learning process, there is a tendency to go. I know of the CEO of a company who takes Fridays off during winter as “personal ski days.&# Give yourself the gift of a day away to do whatever you love and please, no guilt! I can’t see one. He doesn’t ask, he just does.

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Press Release Discount PR Parcell 193

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Purchasing plan (with processes and vendor lists) is in writing. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. While I have enormous respect for Ram’s wisdom, I believe CHROs have much to offer CEOs and can be better prepared to do so without splitting HR. More is now expected of HR professionals.

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Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Some retailers maintain a separate in-house team to try out potentially superior new systems that don’t follow traditional rules, in parallel with existing processes. They also simplified checkouts and shelf restocking processes and equipment. Enable people to feel comfortable with failing fast – including the CEO.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Second, they should consider opening similar near-shore facilities to treat some of their own patients and to serve as a lab for process innovations.

Health Care 15

Health Care System Innovation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Hiring Human resources Talent management'

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Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. But without clear lines of authority and accountability, dual empowerment guarantees perpetual conflict between human and artificial intelligence. Who wants clever code bossing them around?

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Five years earlier, when he’d stepped into his role, he’d been focused on growing the company that his father, Eric — the previous CEO — had founded.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

A few years ago, Brad Anderson , then CEO of Best Buy, told me something both provocative and profound. Usually, if you search, there are opportunities in your current job and at your current level to display your ability to drive change, even if you are in a support function like finance or human resources.

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Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Ane Ohm, CEO of HarQen , a startup supplier of automated recruiting systems in Milwaukee, and her staff held over 100 patience-sapping meetings with a Fortune 500 customer before getting a first contract.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. Senior HR leaders will need to be able to stand alongside the CEO to make better business decisions on areas such as: Turnover. Use data to quantify this impact and get managers to take more initiatives during the recruitment process.

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Attrition Talent Management Agility Innovation 98

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. CEOs sense the problem perhaps more than CIOs do. Victorio M.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The 2012 batch includes CEOs sending memos explaining whose platform they think will help the organization thrive (and encouraging employees to vote accordingly, lest jobs be lost) and even one who sent his people to a rally. What they don't understand is that the process can work the other way.

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How To Politics Influence Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. Processes to reduce risks of retaliation or gossip also need to be in place to reduce the fear of reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

P&G''s Connect and Develop ) to increase velocity and quality of their new product introductions, the IT infrastructure support for this business process change is critical. EIG is responsible for enterprise architecture, the center of expertise for simplification and integration methods, process and program management.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Under the leadership of Anthony Tersigni, Ascension’s president and CEO, the organization has sought to become much more efficient at delivering health care. Ascension centralized functions such as human resources, payroll, travel services, and finance, thereby streamlining operations and saving costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. Microfund for Women in Jordan, meanwhile, is a standout in the area of bringing women's thinking to bear on its new product development process.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

I worked as a consultant for many years before becoming the CEO of Red Hat. These are the questions that keep me up at night as a CEO. Photo by TOM EVERSLEY. Wouldn’t the ability to share open and honest feedback throughout the organization improve their chances of addressing their issues, and more quickly?

Construction 8

Construction Consultative Learning-by-Doing Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Digitally enabled tools and processes have altered what and how a business sells, flipped the tables on the typical customer relationship, introduced a glut of new channels and competitors, and made it harder for organizations to break through the “noise.”. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Being clear about this will help you direct your resources to those programs that stand the best chance of early payback. Alternatively, human resources might be the right place.

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Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

"This is the first step in getting a job, so you have to persuade the initial screeners that you are a good candidate," says Peter Cappelli, a professor at The Wharton School, the Director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, and author of " Talent Management for the Twenty-First Century." Challenge your assumptions.

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Sample Case Study Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

After all, tough conversations “are not black swans,” says Jean-Francois Manzoni, professor of human resources and organizational development at INSEAD. “Express your interest in understanding how the other person feels,” and “take time to process the other person’s words and tone,” he adds.

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How To Construction Case Study Performance Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2017

“Say, ‘It is taking me about five hours a month to prepare this report for the finance department. Do you have any suggestions on how to streamline the process?’” She knew she needed to talk to her boss, David Ossip, Ceridian’s CEO, but she was nervous. Is this in line with what you would expect?

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How To Project Advice Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

” Consequently, for most nonlisted students, their fates in the hiring process are sealed by the school they attend. ” Many also heralded elite universities’ admissions processes as best practices and essentially outsourced the first round of candidate screening to these institutions.

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EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8