Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The actions by Ramsey’s organization and the lack of transparency from either man raise questions in the Christian business, personal finance and leadership communities. However, in amicable transitions websites can (and typically do) remain up and operating as normal throughout such a transition. Jon Acuff’s Disclaimers.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

link] Meredith Bell I had the opportunity to meet Kevin recently at a conference and had a follow-up phone conversation with him. link] mikemyatt Hi Amie: Thanks for your comment. I'm sure Kevin appreciates your kind words. Thanks again for stopping by. I appreciate your sharing his wisdom about leadership, Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year? While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Swensen said this at a Bloomberg Link conference held in honor of that great fiduciary, Vanguard founder Jack Bogle. For Bogle, that's because the company where he spent his peak earning years was structured as a mutual — owned by its customers and operated on their behalf. None of them are, by modern Wall Street standards, rich.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Once you have clients’ email addresses, you can create a mailing list to inform list subscribers of sales or specials or a change in operating hours, etc. Here are some ideas about how you can start and grow your network: Join your national professional associations and attend conferences. Offen, Esq.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). After confering with the elders and leaders in the town, she was told that it cost money to go to school. but you’ll not find that here. JoaoVictor_ac Myles Munroe [link] Lance Martin I would love to nominate Jason Young.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. When a request arose for a new service that was not operational within our own system (e.g., But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. Fourth-year medical students are ultimately evaluated on medical knowledge and leadership abilities in a simulated tactical field setting.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success. For example, Cesar Bocanegra started as VP for operations, then asked to take on human resources as well. As the organization has grown, CEO Charles Best has encouraged senior executives to take on increasing responsibilities.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2021

To begin with, being LLC is the most advantageous option for any new and small business from many legal and operational aspects. No matter how virtualized our lifestyle gets, we still need to operate through physical spaces. We would recommend you to choose the LLC (Limited Liability Company) categorization for your business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. As I learned at the conference, according to Terra Technology's benchmarking study , the error rate for CPG companies on estimated vs. actual sales is shockingly high. I was wrong.

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Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In the first article in this series, I showed some striking numbers to stress what many inferred: there are real costs to locating operations outside of a startup super-hub (San Francisco Bay, New York, or Boston). Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. The proliferation of startup conferences facilitates networking.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Today's climate of employee dissatisfaction, distrust, and disengagement, as reported in numerous surveys conducted by organizations ranging from the Conference Board to Gallup and human resource consulting firms, will surely keep Scott Adams in Dilbert ideas for years. You probably won't sway them.

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How To Politics Influence Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Dimon publicly disclosed the losses in a conference call on May 10, and he accepted Drew's resignation soon after.

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Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Between October 1 and 17, the federal government ceased all nonessential operations because of a partisan stalemate over Obamacare. Ellen Sigal, founder of Friends of Cancer Research notes that, “Because of sequester cuts, FDA reviewers often cannot even attend major research conferences where data on drugs they will review are presented.”.

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Health Care Budgeting Pharmaceuticals Review 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. Imagine a conference room of individuals drawn from the far corners of the globe to work in your company or to do business with you.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Always operate from the belief that you can always grow and get better as a leader and as a person. I've seen John in person at few of our conferences teaching leadership to us and I am really do admired the knowledge and wisdom he gained. Hope I can attend one of his conferences on leadership. Leaders are learners.

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Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing Brand 400

Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2019

There are over 32 million small businesses operating in the US. With insufficient capital to hand, it won’t be operational for long. For that reason, it’s vital that small businesses squeeze as much money as possible from operations. However, many small businesses are operated straight out of the family home.

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Travel Outsourcing Insurance Software 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. Reminiscent of a Starbucks, the storefront includes a coffee bar, a conference table in an open area, and a couple of meeting rooms. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. After that the No.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

” Backgrounds in STEM, business, finance, or economics are a launchpad for female CEOs. Forty percent of the female CEOs started out with some technical expertise in STEM, and close to 20% started with a background in business, finance, or economics. That conversation was a bit of a wake-up call.”

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CEO Benchmarking Mentor Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

They may not be like the big conglomerates of the 1960s — you can see how their portfolio of somewhat related business came about — but, in reality, the various divisions and business units do operate completely independently from one another. Finally, a corporation's head office can provide funds, much like an in-house bank.

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Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

As a major research study I conducted recently with The Conference Board pointed out, such organizational structures demand leaders who combine business expertise and a drive for results with the ability to work with and through people over whom they typically have no direct control.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. See also here , here , and here.) They also worked with the CIO to help them to understand the business.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 360

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

They were both naïve to think that creating a high-expense, polished operation would automatically enhance their business. For Colin, having a strong research analyst in the conference room would have been more important for his business than Bose speakers. This would have helped them avoid a cash crunch.

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