HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. If our equitable compensation program guide is to be trusted, you need to identify relevant external benchmarks to understand prevailing salary ranges for similar roles in the market.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s. Strategy That Works. Add to Cart.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Companies that correctly match their strategy-making processes to the competitive circumstances of their industry, business function, or geographic markets perform better than those that don't. By 2000, UPS's multibillion-dollar bet had paid off: The company had snapped up a whopping 60% of the e-commerce delivery market.

Strategy 8

Strategy Organization Committee Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Consider the story of Bud Frankel, the founder of Frankel , a firm that created the marketing services industry (where both of us eventually worked) that gained a national reputation and attracted clients across both the consumer and healthcare areas.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Consider what the board of General Electric has declared as its criteria for new directors. ” We would take that further.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Over 50% of marketing and IT prefer a salesperson who will listen and match a solution to solve their specific needs. 2: It’s Really a Committee of One. In practicality, it can be said that a salesperson doesn’t have to win over the entire selection committee, only the individual who dominates it. #3:

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. When the Riksbank Prizes in Economic Sciences (a.k.a. It goes back to the 1970s.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. In their view, functional priorities are all too often in conflict with — or not fully supportive of — the strategic needs of the business.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

.” If someone with Calhoun’s experience has trouble with this – he’s chairman of Nielsen’s board, sits on boards of Boeing and Caterpillar, and is on the management committee at Blackstone – I know he can’t be alone.

Career 8

Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Last week the House Committee on Education and Workforce of the U.S. 1313 ), was introduced by Representative Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions should soon consider similar legislation.

Insurance 9

Insurance Committee Power Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. And he was considered an expert!

Blog 293

Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 293

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. The second source of revenue is trying to change the fact that corporations report large profits to the capital markets and relatively small profits to tax authorities.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

As a tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, I (Dean) listened to many speeches from members on both sides of the aisle in praise of the R&D tax credit, because it would help grow and support those two entrepreneurs in a garage with the new idea. And let's not forget the argument that better-performing start-ups create jobs.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

As a tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, I (Dean) listened to many speeches from members on both sides of the aisle in praise of the R&D tax credit, because it would help grow and support those two entrepreneurs in a garage with the new idea. And let's not forget the argument that better-performing start-ups create jobs.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 8