HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

For example, over the past several years, we’ve implemented paid family leave and paid parental leave, as well as extended paid sick leave to part-time retail employees so our employees never have to choose between work and taking care of their own health, a new child, or a sick parent or spouse. Tracy is responsible for LS&Co.’s

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Diversity Resources Retail 52

HR Digest

AUGUST 30, 2020

Outdoor equipment retailer, Patagonia has announced that it will shut down its headquarters, offices, stores and distribution centers for Election Day, as it had previously done in 2016 and 2018. Apple is providing up to four hours off with pay to its retail and hourly employees, according to a Bloomberg report in July.

Company 52

Company Retail Human Resources Report 52

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A good CEO costs no more than a bad one – sometimes far less when you consider costly mistakes and lucrative severance packages. In America, several specialist retailers who limit their product scope continue to thrive in an environment dominated by 5,000 Wal-Mart stores. . There are far more than you think.

Competitive Advantage 100

Competitive Advantage How To Human Resources Strategy 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Founder and CEO Morag Barrett says, “Having fun is infectious. Online retailer Zappos, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, has a huge reputation as a fun place to work. Richard Danby, human resources director, said these and other social events are needed because employees work in units separated from each other.

Committee 111

Committee CPA COO Morale 111

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Videos of Black Friday frenzies and physical violence for retail goods open the audience’s eyes to our society’s obsession with material things. Others live in minimalist homes about the size of a typical bedroom. All these interviews occur while clips of America’s mass-consumption lifestyle are juxtaposed in the background.

Ryan 168

Ryan Film Stress Retail 168

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.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely. It’s either adapt to the new environment or step aside and make room for a competitor who can.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 7, 2012

Well, I already had a bar code; now I was told that I had to join this organization and pay annually or my products would no longer be handled by chain retailers. During that time, a company known as GS1 was formed under the auspices of regulating product bar codes. I soon learned that I had no option. In Canada, GS1 is a monopoly.

Niche Marketing 206

Niche Marketing Brand Retail Company 206

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Loblaws , Canada’s largest food retailer, announced that they were discontinuing French’s ketchup, claiming that the new brand’s sales weren’t cutting it. Nonetheless, when a retailer with the size and clout of Loblaws makes a call like this, it is game-over for the supplier.

Retail 100

Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

With Black Friday behind us, Cyber Monday upon us, and retail's make-or-break season in high gear, many of us are interacting more than usual with front-line service employees. That gives the organization more resources, which it can use to improve employee and customer satisfaction even further.

Retail 8

Retail Heskett Franchising COO 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 13, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. by John • June 13, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 1 Comment. Our mission is to operate the best specialty retail business in America, regardless of the product we sell. CEO Howard Schultz wanted 2000 stores up and running by the new millennium. Human Resources.

Mission Statement 209

Mission Statement CEO Human Resources Brand 209

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? We interviewed search professionals, CEOs, and CHROs with nontraditional backgrounds to find out what happens when business leaders outside of HR move into the role. That’s precisely what we found.

Quinn 13

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. For all these reasons, Prime has been described by CEO Jeff Bezos as one of the company’s three strategic pillars.

IT Strategy 11

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The obsession with predicting who may be a future star or the next top leader has influenced academic research and human resources practices alike. But how good are we at evaluating human potential? A tech services company we know was planning to deprioritize its retail vertical, because it always made losses.

Politics 8

Politics Retail Career Report 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.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. All three companies have tough, business-savvy, and politically astute HR chiefs who are a vital partner to the CEO.

Human Resources 13

Human Resources Operations Compliance Maturity 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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” ” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Human capital.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. A CEO is far removed from the day-to-day concerns of most workers.

Management 10

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors. At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail. You and Your Team Series.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve interviewed healthcare CEOs, for example, who seemed most concerned with filling hospital housekeeping jobs. retail, fast food) may be able to take this position. Human resources Managing people Talent management' This disconnect between an aging workforce and skill shortages is consistent with my previous research.

Skills 8

Skills Human Resources Engineering Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The former you can do with a few staffers and the CEO’s blessing, but the latter requires broad organizational support and ongoing effort. business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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?

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

Kudos to CEO Roberto Goizueta for having the good sense, (and the courage) to “kill his darling” and reinstate Coke Classic. At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh has set his cultural sights on a holacracy management system a radical change from conventional structures. New Coke lasted 79 days before the original formula returned to the market.

Brand 100

Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

But some of the businesses that would have been impacted by the employer mandate — in sectors like retail and food service — didn''t appear to be ready to comply with the law. Most large U.S. companies already provide workers with health benefits.

Health Care 8

Health Care Parcell Politics Policies 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

CEOs talk focus all the time and nod to its importance, but few take the necessary measures to cut through complexity and clear a path to clarity and coherence. A workforce of 8,000 led by a transformational CEO, seemingly knows how to deal with the ever-changing digital world. Their goal is to make accounting, simple.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

“We’ll spend a lot of time bringing product to market, but we need to plan for the fact that a launch gives us a six-month head start and no more,” says Gary Booker, CMO of Dixons Retail. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO. All that has elevated – and complicated – the role of CMO.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Yet I perceive a large gap between the direct experience of non-executive directors and the experience required to challenge and support chairmen and CEOs in their quest to bring the best technology to their business. Amazon dramatically impacted not just book shops but shopping; Google is now a verb.

Technology 8

Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. Industries with the highest have more female-dominated workforces and include health care, education and retail industries (43 to 47 percent of leaders are women).Industries Pittsburgh — Women comprise more than half the workforce.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

She'd been doing it since she was a little girl, tagging along with her father as he grew his business from one small market in central Lonburg into one of Spain's largest grocery retailers, with more than 1,000 locations across the country. When Luisa took over as CEO after his death, she'd vowed to continue the tradition.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Policies Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. There are lots of things that can be done in large organizations but simply aren’t because nobody has the time or resources.”

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, October 2016. For illustration, let’s say you are an online retailer who wants a computer program that identifies images of a ‘boot’. A retail cognitive assistant is a sample Cognitive/AI application. “The last 10 years have been about building a world that is mobile-first.

Positioning 150

Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

Similarly, in the digital world, a strategy that confines retailers to bricks and mortar is foolhardy. You can bet their strategies for e-retailing aren’t wishy-washy. A $5 billion business known as Nespresso was the result. Beyond determining the playing field, and telling you “what not to do,” strategy helps define the culture.

Strategy 100

Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100