HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

EY People Pulse surveys have told us that, on average, people now want to spend up to 1-2 days more remotely than they did prior to the pandemic, so we’re committed to offering flexible models. The biggest pivot happened during a trip to Silicon Valley when I was CEO of EY Canada.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

What makes a CEO effective? Yet we still know fairly little about how CEOs behave day-to-day and how their behavior relates to the success or failure of the companies they run. In new research , we use survey data from over 1,000 CEOs across six countries and the financial performance of their companies to explore these questions.

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CEO Survey Succession Supply Chain 14

Women on Business

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A Citibank survey shows that women still have hope that their own personal financial situation will change for the better, despite what is going on with most of the economic world. To help women make the most of their money Linda Descano, CFA ® , President and CEO of Women & Co.,

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Transportation Budgeting Survey Tips 154

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

What’s the role of NEDs, CEOs and Government in creating inclusive workplaces? IWD: key reflections In her reflections on International Women’s Day in Management Today , CMI’s CEO Ann Francke OBE stressed that the “say-do gap” remains an issue to be addressed. How to close the say-do gap and tap into hidden talent?

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

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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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. They add that strong support comes not only from the CEO and IT executives but also from all other C-level officers and the board of directors.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey for 2013 revealed that 70 percent of Americans do not prepare a detailed personal budget. Entrepreneurs who handle their personal finances this way are prone to carry the same habits over into their business planning. Connect with Eric online at www.SalesChampion.com.

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Goal Planning Marketing Succession 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

This week Uber took a major step toward righting the ship with the choice of Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 27, 2014

Tools such as 360-degree feedback and mini-surveys can be done online, at low cost as needed. For example, some leaders may need to change behavior; others may need functional training in marketing or finance. Traditional, people-centered techniques for follow-up and reinforcement tend to be expensive and time-consuming. Coaching'

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360-Degree Feedback Long-term Globalization Tools 121

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

According to a survey done recently the average person only has 2 close friends. What would have happened, I wonder, if the audience had been a group of professional leaders, say military officers, or CEOs, people used to making decisions and acting quickly? This generation is weak in many ways. The worst part was that 30% have none.

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Media Blog Audience Ryan 417

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

How do you measure a CEO’s impact? An HBR team recently addressed that question by ranking CEOs according to the increases their companies have seen in total shareholder return and market capitalization across their whole tenures. And clearly CEOs can and should be judged by the financial results they generate.

CEO 8

CEO Reputation Metrics EBITDA 8

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. Your survey showed that as much as CEOs had shaken up their senior team, looking back on it they wished they''d moved even faster.

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CEO CFO COO Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

” After all, CEOs don’t actually build factories or sell products. It’s tempting, therefore, to view the CEO as primarily a thinker ; someone who mulls and shapes strategy. That is a part of the CEO’s job, of course. The CEO’s job is to make sure that happens.

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CEO Class Chief Executive Officer Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The Global Empathy Index uses a combination of publicly available information and proprietary data drawn from its surveys and from social and financial feeds — including textual analysis of over half a million social media interactions. There are two outliers, however: Tesla in third place and Audi in 10th. Procter & Gamble.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

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. Finance Human resources' Even HR itself agrees.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If paying excessive CEO salaries is the most maligned use of corporate funds, stock buybacks may well take second place. Conventional wisdom is that CEOs buy back stock to manipulate the short-term stock price. Fewer companies would go public, instead financing themselves by taking on more debt. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Also, as we explained in an earlier article , we believe that being an established CEO of a small firm involves much less angst than being a senior member of a consulting, investment banking, or private equity firm. Some large sample surveys report that MBAs nationwide have an average starting salary of about $100K.

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Consultative CAGR EBITDA CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals. This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders. In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches.

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CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

For each completed survey, we calculated an overall BMI score by aggregating responses across seven categories of bureaucratic drag: bloat, friction, insularity, disempowerment, risk aversion, inertia, and politicking. We computed an overall BMI based on scale of 20 to 100, based on answers to the first twenty questions of the survey.

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Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. The leaders we surveyed identified several factors contributing to high turnover.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavioral science research tell us that households, small business owners, and CEOs of multinationals alike are prone to overweight recent adverse events, follow the decisions of their peers , compartmentalize risks , and engage in many other behaviors that economists have traditionally considered peculiar.

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Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

According to the first study, a survey of 1,195 executives, nearly half of those who had ascended to top-level positions in their firms said they were unable to align colleagues around the goals they set out in the new role, while more than a third admitted that they had failed to meet those initial objectives. Of course not.

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Succession Human Capital McKinsey Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Another ousted from the CEO role by a co-founder, former boss, and seed investor. That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. Sound like anyone you know?

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Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. ” His experience gibes with the findings of a new survey that PwC conducted on corporate renewable buying.

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Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

We don’t stop at interviewing and choosing good candidates; we give them detailed insight into the company’s finances, strategy, individual consultant performance, and implications on compensation so they can make a fully informed decision about whether to join us. Centralize thoughtfully.

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Team Organization Management Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk tweets that no one changed the world working 40 hours a week. Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. Dimitri Otis/Getty Images. Apple’s Tim Cook is on email before the sun rises.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital.

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own savings account. After becoming the CEO of WebMD, Patricia Fili-Krushel met with an all-male group of engineers in Silicon Valley.

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Film Engineering Budgeting Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Strive Masiyiwa was interviewing him to be CEO of the Nigeria telecoms venture lead by Econet Group, which Strive founded and chairs. ’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers.

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Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. What about that Graham-Harvey-Rajgopal survey of financial executives who said they'd avoid investments that would cause them miss quarterly earnings targets? Research shows that a major reason for firing CEOs in recent years is unfavorable share performance.

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Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals? This issue is one of my pet peeves," says Rich Stearns, CEO of World Vision US, the largest affiliate of a $2.8

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Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

In a recent survey from Javelin Research, 56% of SMEs indicated a desire for better digital banking tools. In a separate, forthcoming survey conducted by Oliver Wyman and Fundera (where one of us works), over 60% of small business owners indicated that they would prefer to apply for loans entirely online.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns. CEOs will need to shift their mindset now if they want to avoid their own “Kodak moment.” Startups alone won’t fill that vacuum: Stewards must emerge from the old guard of financial services.

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