Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This bias also explains why a CFO may be perceived as cheap by disposition or why a team might attribute its internal conflicts to incompatible personalities instead of resulting from organizational incentives to compete rather than collaborate with one another. Talent management' There is a better way.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We’ve barely spent anything on marketing, because they do it all for us.” I don’t know how we’re expected to manage people when their only job description is ‘Be yourself and do what you want.’. “We When the women arrived back at the office, Andrew Maslin, BrainGame’s head of marketing, was waiting for them in the lobby. “I

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Eventually, he approached his boss about moving to a role in a small emerging market – while it would mean managing less revenue and fewer people than his current job, he’d thrive on the dynamism of the startup opportunity. Sometimes it’s not feasible – or desirable – to move someone to a different role.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

In the decades since Deng Xiaoping instituted market reform, millions of women have profitably followed Deng's dictate that "to get rich is glorious." Understanding the unique needs of this talent pool is one of the most overlooked secrets to succeeding in this complex market.". This post was co-authored with Ripa Rashid.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

To investigate this effect further, we interviewed top women executives about their experiences in recruitment processes and found a common complaint: dissatisfaction and frustration with how those processes were managed. For example, the CFO of a biotech company recalled that she had been considered for a CEO position.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

But the ones who really understand the issue see gender balance as not just a numbers game but part of a broader, more strategic cultural shift that includes developing leadership teams representing geographically diffuse markets. Some of those searches, like the one, three years ago, for our CFO, took twice as long as normal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. It does require that leaders reach across functional boundaries, but thats different than simply placing compensation and benefits under the CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. robotics for package loading on and off the truck, the disaggregation of an accounting job, the transition to free agents on a talent platform), the mechanism through which we engage with all our stakeholders (e.g., market partners to GE) can take advantage of the unique GE learning experience.

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