Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Guest Post By Mary Kinney, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae, a cornerstone of the U.S. According to a new research report by Catalyst, women held 14.3 The report also shows that more than one quarter of Fortune 500 companies have no women in executive roles.

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Women on Business

MAY 24, 2012

A report by the National Bureau of Economic Research details a study showing that women, when told they would be judged on performance and bonuses based on their performance against another coworker, would typically not apply for that job. There are various components such as taking time off to raise children, gender bias, and on and on.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

If needed, do your homework by reading your company’s latest annual report, press releases, and listen to the latest recorded earnings call. These are the big kahunas at the corporate office making decisions about how much to cut your training budget. Leave the training jargon behind – this is a business conversation.

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LDRLB

JULY 27, 2012

As John Robak, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Greeley and Hansen , attests, “Those individuals in our organization who are inspired tend to outperform. If you’re going to adopt an official leadership development program, be sure to first identify your goals for the program.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 15, 2015

Not long after this revelation, I was asked to work with Harry, the chief operating officer of a large consulting firm. He was habitually disrespectful to his direct reports, driving several of them away to work for the competition. I interviewed his colleagues and direct reports, even his wife and teenaged children.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Fowler wrote, “When I reported the situation, I was told by both HR and upper management that even though this was clearly sexual harassment and he was propositioning me, it was this man’s first offense, and that they wouldn’t feel comfortable giving him anything other than a warning and a stern talking-to.”. This did not engender trust.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Galetti is the highest-ranking woman at Amazon and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” (short for “Senior Team”) that reports directly to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Prior to AECOM, Finch served as senior managing director and chief operations officer for Global Human Resources at Accenture.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

” “An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. ” Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

I saw this play out when debriefing with the Chief Operating Officer of a $20 billion global company. I’d helped him prepare for a potentially volatile conversation with his direct report, who was behind on the implementation plan of a major initiative. But what they saw was a neurotic plea for affirmation.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” Amazing given that all it does is report sales as early as, wait for it, the next day. A piece of simple advice, but it’s amazing how few senior leaders walk that talk. Just ask Woo.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. The CIO’s response tends to be “reports” (61 percent of the population).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

across several industries, 99% reported working with at least one such person, and nearly half worked with at least four. Peers were the most frequent offenders (with 73% of respondents reporting at least one unaware peer), followed by direct reports (33%), bosses (32%), and clients (16%).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

The ABU was set up as a centralized profit center with ambitious targets and with direct reporting to the chief operations officer; most often, similar units are organized as cost centers with no specific targets. Targets and accountability.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Changing the way you think about stress can help you turn stress into an ally and use it to improve mental agility and work performance; a report in the Journal of Experimental Psychology showed that physiological and cognitive benefits result from thinking of stress as “functional and adaptive” rather than a signifier of “threat.”.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

For example, we'll ask candidates to develop an innovation strategy for the CEO of a major beverage company, synthesizing insights from the market conditions outlined in a beverage industry trend report (which we provide). Once the candidate has devised a strategy, have her present it to your team as if she is presenting to the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology. In this latest report, based on a larger-than-ever sample, 29% of breaches involved social tactics like getting employees to click on fake emails (phishing).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

I had taken one step toward this two years ago, when I named one partner president and another chief operating officer. By reporting on progress regularly, and involving the future leaders at my company, I seek to maintain their support and understanding. I wanted to plan well in advance for my eventual departure.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

What resources do you have to get something fixed?" —Chief Operating Officer. He earned our trust so we were much more open with him." —Chief Information Officer. Time after time, interviewees reported they did not pick the least costly option. Who are your proven big-time customers?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

In her summary section, she highlighted accomplishments that show she can grow startups and alleviate their common pain points: Chief Operating Officer. Create order out of chaos and enable rational decision-making with data-driven reporting and analyses. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Not only do employees with disabilities comprise a large talent pool, it’s a remarkably innovative one: 75% of them report having an idea that would drive value for their company (versus 66% of employees without disabilities). The numbers are similar across gender, race, and generation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It may seem odd to use a dystopian world as a model for an office workspace, but that’s just what Citi did. Likerman relays one example: We have a new colleague, who came in thinking his job would be mostly focused on affirmative action reporting and auditing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It may seem odd to use a dystopian world as a model for an office workspace, but that’s just what Citi did. Likerman relays one example: We have a new colleague, who came in thinking his job would be mostly focused on affirmative action reporting and auditing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

As Rudy Lobo, their Chief Operating Officer explains, at the very moment the company goes after an opportunity, it simultaneously considers what it will take to exit it. Regus was founded in 1989, one of a string of businesses started by Mark Dixon, a colorful serial entrepreneur from the UK.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. Finally, they liked to report rosy numbers. How can you break this cycle? But in the budgeting process, the initiative got little funding.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Middle managers, for instance, make the rounds of their direct reports every morning, asking specific — often scripted — questions about the day’s challenges. The chief operating officer (COO) meets with direct reports during the week on the floor.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

As researchers who have, for years, studied how employees thrive , we were surprised to discover that people who belong to them report levels of thriving that approach an average of 6 on a 7-point scale. First, unlike a traditional office, coworking spaces consist of members who work for a range of different companies, ventures, and projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Erica Jackson, chief marketing officer of the Mendoza Marathon Corporation, had risen early to watch people line up to register for next year’s event and expected an enthusiastic crowd. Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

But then T&T’s chief operating officer, Jim Zappa, had pulled her aside to tell her the shocking news: A garment factory in Bangladesh that produced and packaged merchandise for T&T and other retailers had collapsed in the middle of a workday. The area looked like the aftermath of an earthquake.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.” Moreover, studies are finding no consistent gender differences in self-reported self-confidence.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

That’s according to an internal memo obtained by Ad Age, from McDonald's USA Chief Operating Officer Jim Johannesen, which reads: "Starting with Thanksgiving, ensure your restaurants are open throughout the holidays…our largest holiday opportunity as a system is Christmas Day.” After posting U.S. sales growth of 2.5%

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

One of their studies found that when Chief Operating Officers’ values weren’t aligned with their organization, they needed a 40% salary increase to stay in their jobs. Ingram and Choi comment, “Imagine that: An increase in values alignment had as great an effect as a 40% raise.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Ten days after her husband died unexpectedly while on vacation in Mexico, Sheryl Sandberg returned to work as chief operating officer at Facebook.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2013

“EQ has quickly become a global movement that’s helping companies large and small rebuild trust internally to make its employees happier and more productive, which in turn impacts the overall ROI,” said Joshua Freedman, chief operating officer for Six Seconds and the chairman of NexusEQ, a global conference taking place this summer at Harvard. “We

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