Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your support and engineering team are tired of the same issues showing up again and again.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

How many leaders and managers of large corporations watched Hayward implode on television and thought to themselves, "I never want that to be me"! How are risk assessment, and more specifically -- enterprise risk management ("ERM") implemented in your organization?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. “So I’m struggling to find a way to make this work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

in January 1968 as a young 22-year old with $8 in his pocket and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. or a European company, a top Korean manager in a Korean company—they can assist a person of diverse background help gain insight into the culture of the organization and serve as a wise counsel.

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. A strong value proposition and a first-class recruiting engine.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures. An HBR Management Puzzle.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Domain expertise at an automaker includes things like mechanics, telematics, structural engineering, design, and so on. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after. Make the tough calls on people.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

But often, managing the business gets short shrift. Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. Their execution had to be accomplished within an operating facility that could not be shut down for the project. I''m not naming it to protect client confidentiality.)

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COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

The marketing team was getting lost in attribution, pulling the same search engine marketing levers, talking to the same audiences, and creating the same campaigns with diminishing returns. As a result, the conversion rate from Facebook campaigns managed by Albert increased by 750% in Albert’s first year of operation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. The Texas site alone produces more energy than what Owens Corning uses across its significant Texas operations. Get early buy-in. For Owens Corning, the locations matter. Seek advice on the accounting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Leadership created an optimization office reporting to the CFO to facilitate cost reduction projects, train new team members, and document and disseminate results across the system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. We normally think of people as something to be managed. Human capital. Intellectual capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

They might impersonate a bank, saying, “Hey, I know you’re about to go and get an operation, don’t forget to transfer some money by clicking here,” or whatever. And then you think, “Well, they know I’m having an operation tomorrow, so they must be a legitimate bank.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. In other words, they’re a terrific medium and mechanism for transitioning traditional managements to platform perspectives. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Engineering Company White Paper Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

My work with leaders from Finance, HR, and the C-Suite suggests instead that HR and talent decisions are optimized by  retooling HR   adapting financial and other management frameworks to HR and talent decisions. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The success of an activist strategy is contingent upon placing a management team in an extremely reactive, frenzied and compromising position. Because by the time the activist has engaged senior management, they have already performed extensive due diligence on the company and have a detailed strategy they intend to pursue.

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