HR Digest

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

If you love technology and developing computer programs, this is the career for you. Software developers can work in many different fields, including finance, education, information technology, health care, construction, and more. Software developers create applications (software) on computers or mobile devices.

Software 97

Software Real Estate Engineering Education 97

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Corporate accountants can connect themselves mentally to the larger work of their organizations and take pride and purpose in the customers they help. Invest in positive relationships. We’d all be served by identifying more ways to develop positive collegial relationships at work. Who do you serve?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Corporate Accountability Article Learning-by-Doing 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 23, 2010

On one occasion, I was to talk with a number of Corporate Account Managers. The answer will usually be a functional answer such as I’m in accounting, or I’m in shipping. It was sort of an orientation thing for me and perhaps provided a chance for everyone else to give me the “once over”. I think most of us can learn from that.

Banking 43

Banking Blog Human Resources Learning-by-Doing 43

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. Claw-backs or hold-backs of past awards could be appropriate for the departed employees.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. For RIM, is it the small base of application developers, or the lack of a handful of key applications?

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate). But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool. But success or failure on sustainability goals cannot be measured only in terms of profit and loss. .”

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Boards incentivize CEOs to increase short-term profits by any means necessary, even if it means defunding research and development labs and personnel whose value creation may be a few years off. The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8