Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

The answer lies somewhere in the commitment I’m willing to make to each day. I have some work to do but I am committed to finding balance. When we allow ourselves the word “try&# it usually means we are not committed and we have an easy out – because we only committed to “trying&#. Not to doing.

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Press Release Fraser Discount PR 182

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Erni is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employers in the world. All of these groups are committed to making an impact internally at Audible and in the communities in which we serve. The HR Digest: What is diversity to you?

Diversity 52

Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Ernie is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employer in the world. All of these groups are committed to making an impact internally at Audible and in the communities in which we serve. The HR Digest: What is diversity to you?

Diversity 52

Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Charan has turned his attention to these organization dynamics in response to CEOs recognizing that technology, operations, access to financial capital, and even strategic positioning statements are less differentiating than their organization’s ability to respond to opportunities. Human resources Strategy Talent management'

Charan 10

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Second, young businesses tend to grow faster than older ones, but also fail at greater rates.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. Deeply grounded in the Catholic faith, Ascension resembles the Indian exemplars in its commitment to providing high-quality, low-cost health care, especially to the poor and vulnerable, who are often uninsured.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. For example, if a nonprofit is experiencing an issue with hiring, we provide human capital consultants to help them revamp their process.

Skills 9

Skills Real Estate Human Capital Project 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Doing that requires real commitment on the part of a company and someone to make sure that it’s followed up by action. It has to be the responsibility of every single department: human resources, training, marketing, support, sales, IT, finance, operations and, most importantly, leadership.

Company 73

Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 73

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes). For example, it implemented an Internet service that answers the question "Where's my refund?"

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. But I cannot speak too highly of Steve Levy’s superb Backchannel discussion of how Google has committed to becoming a “machine learning first” enterprise. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

This year my organization decided to give an award for "excellence in leadership," and among the elements of excellence we expect to see in the winner, we're putting one criterion front and center: the nominees' commitment to gender diversity in their leadership ranks.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Teach For America (TFA), founded in 1989 with the goal to eliminate educational inequity in the United States, has placed more than 24,000 high-achieving college graduates in some of America's neediest schools, building a cadre of young, committed, and enthusiastic classroom teachers.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But it hasn''t yet tackled its operational challenges, the root causes of the country''s crisis. True, to the surprise of many analysts, the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, abandoned his earlier populist rhetoric and tried to sort out public finances. Predictably, Greece was unable to meet its commitment.

Politics 8

Politics Restructuring Crisis McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

A similar proposal to Split Finance would likely have been rejected out of hand by organization leaders (and Harvard Business Review editors), because its obvious that the Finance function must fit the organization strategy and leader capabilities. Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

Incubator 8

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

To the firm, I was the “ ideal worker ” — a phrase sociologists use to describe a problematic archetype of a fully committed employee with no personal “entanglements.” You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12