The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Corporate law should place purpose at the heart of the corporation and require directors to state their purposes and demonstrate commitment to them. Corporate financing should be of a form and duration that allows companies to fund more engaged and long-term investment in their purposes.

Kaplan 76

Kaplan Report Metrics Loyalty 76

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

In addition to testing, developing a solid set of interviewing questions to sniff out any character flaws is also a good idea. In answer to your question, there are any number of diagnostic tests (personality profiles, psychological evaluations, etc.) that can be administered as part of the hiring process.

Blog 326

Blog Survey Talent Management Brand 326

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s my belief that culture does not happen organically, especially in today’s world of hybrid or remote work , but that companies have it in their power to develop and foster environments that respect issues of S&B. At Audible, we continue to focus on S&B education.

Diversity 52

Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s my belief that culture does not happen organically, especially in today’s world of hybrid or remote work , but that companies have it in their power to develop and foster environments that respect issues of S&B. At Audible, we continue to focus on S&B education.

Diversity 52

Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The statesman keeps commitments, is motivated by service above and beyond self, and by making a lasting difference. It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read!

Blog 416

Blog Succession Influence Brand 416

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality. ” Great post Mike – it is obvious you have spent a lot of time thing about and work with top teams!

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. In our work with clients across dozens of sectors over more than five years, we have found that the strongest CMO/CFO partnerships develop when both parties undertake five actions: 1. Focus on the metrics that matter.

CFO 9

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

We saw the greatest success when tables identified strong chairs who had credibility in multiple sectors, were willing to push the group to prioritize, and were committed to changing how their own institutions worked in order to push others to do the same. Standard performance metrics for these big audacious outcomes do not exist.

Metrics 13

Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20 ) that "accountants would save the world." So TNT brought its logistics skills and committed its people's time to help the WFP reach the victims of droughts, famine, and natural disaster.

Social Capital 15

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

In HR (or finance or IT), 20% of the professionals are exceptional, adding value that helps organizations move forward, 20% of HR folks are locked into a fixed mindset and lack either competence or commitment to deliver real value, and 60% are in the middle. This is both unfair and simplistic. It ignores what I call the 20-60-20 rule.

Charan 13

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The changing expectations have magnified the relevance of non-financial metrics and the need to paint a more complete picture of a CEO’s performance. It’s also why, since 2000, individual companies have consulted the Institute to gain a deeper understanding of how well they are regarded on non-financial metrics – and why.

CEO 8

CEO Reputation Metrics EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

Management 15

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 15

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. We have taken an intentional approach to develop a vision and strategy that takes all our stakeholders’ perspectives into account – one that our customers, carriers and employees can stand behind. The HR Digest: C. What DE&I strategies have helped C.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Another is an indication that the governance of corporations is about compromise and conflict, and different structures are most appropriate for different kinds of companies and different stages of their development. The question is whether that’s really the only metric we should be paying attention to. Boards China Finance'

Class 8

Class Price Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements. However, how those metrics translate into revenues remains a mystery to external investors.

Report 8

Report GAAP Company Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track. Extrapolate what implications these new core beliefs would have on strategy, capital allocation and key metrics. Under Immelt, GE decide to make rather than buy , and develop the needed capability in-house.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The possibility of failure is high when companies don’t commit senior leadership. The scale and scope of this adoption effort—which involves formal training, coaching, and metrics—shouldn’t be downplayed. Building frontline capabilities.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wasn’t nearly as dazzled by Jim’s statistics and metrics as I was his outlook on life. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Play offense - Try desperately not to be on defense.

Blog 360

Blog Brand Media Influence 360

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Berwick presented the report from the independent National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England ( A Promise to Learn — A Commitment to Act: Improving the Safety of Patients in England ) to Prime Minister David Cameron in London. Their attention was on their finances — understandable and even appropriate these days.

Crisis 11

Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 11

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Creating effective pay structures is a serious responsibility however many businesses still hold back from fully committing to the endeavor. Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation not only reflect a healthy work culture , they also allow employees to commit better to their roles.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. The questions were developed by Press Ganey, the healthcare survey company, and were related to employee engagement.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

environmental, social and governance) metrics relevant to long-term sustainable corporate performance. As Dean Lu explained, "In China we are committed to economic growth in a way that contributes to companies and a society that are sustainable over the long term.

Long-term 14

Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2016

Transforming a sales organization to consistently deliver insights requires new value propositions, case studies and collateral from Marketing, new competencies, skill development, recruiting profiles from HR, and alignment with Operations to refine products and services.

Metrics 50

Metrics Marketing Strategy Case Study 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. Lastly, companies need (8) skills and talent that are differentiated from traditional R&D or new product development roles.

Incubator 8

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

History suggests that the main way information technology changes management is through changes in how information is gathered: the large-scale analysis of Operations Research reflected painstaking data collection around a few metrics, which were transferred to punch cards. How organizations are changing.

Management 15

Management Software BPM Technology 15

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. They offer strategies like content development, email marketing, creative and branding, and more.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. Many of the auto-analytic tools being developed for large consumer markets, like the $4.5

Organization 12

Organization Self-aware Taylorism Taylor 12