HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. Create a team of leaders across the organization to develop the benefits framework while also keeping in mind the cost of labor. Spanish flu). Sales Compensation.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

A typical post note transaction went as follows: a borrower approached an insurance company and requested a six-month IOU of $1000, minus a discount of say 3%. The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash.

Insurance 52

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Far too often, organizations discount the leadership value of skilled employees who either don’t want to advance in the management pecking order, or wouldn’t thrive in that particular environment. Walter measured career development according to one’s place on the organization chart.

Report 100

Report Career Discount Mentor 100

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. Sharlyn Lauby, also know as the HR Bartender on the importance of developing your people in Coaching Employees to the Next Level. Jane Perdue at LeadBIG tackles crisis management with Rewarding Hat Tricks or Planning.

Leadership Development 167

Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 167

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? Cathy Benko, a vice chairman at Deloitte, has been studying the various ways companies are working to prevent a skills crisis while transforming for the digital world. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. An edited version of our conversation follows. Insight Center.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Investors reward companies (such as Apple and Kimberly-Clark ) whose current performance or guidance for the future exceeds market expectations, and they punish companies (as they did Starbucks and Procter & Gamble ) whose performance or guidance fails to meet expectations.

CFO 11

CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country.

GDP 8

GDP Bond Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. But match, or barely beat expectations, and the market yawns, or worse, dumps the stock, as it did with Cisco. The problem?

Proposal 15

Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

That is, until a crisis forced them to wake up. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Some estimate the market for market research alone at $20 billion annually.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The lack of price sensitivity on the demand side of the health care market cannot but influence strategies on the supply side. Why discount prices when you won’t get more customers? Why invest research dollars in developing innovations that are cheaper as well as better? Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. Running the business. The Big Picture.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 28, 2010

“ 7 Lessons For Leading In Crisis “ – Bill George I recently had the good fortune of seeing Bill George speak at the World Economic Forum in NYC; he’s an ex-big company CEO who spoke about leading in crisis, and turning crisis into opportunities.

Books 176

Books Review Leadership Crisis 176

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

Every year since 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a report on the state of competition in the wireless market. Or, if not, what negative effect its dubious conclusions might have on regulatory policy in wireless markets. If firms are not exercising market power, competition reigns.

Wireless 13

Wireless Report Price Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis. Why buy clothes at its Kmart stores rather than at trendier Target?

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Today’s standard marketing playbook looks a lot like what Lyons describes in his book.

Cost 8

Cost Marketing Content Media 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process. Value flexibility.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. Once significant distinctions between coupons, coops, discounts, and promotional currencies are blurring into nothingness.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Employee development is on the backburner. Product discounting is chronic. Marketing blames Sales. The latest strategic plan isn’t one. Budgets are constantly cut and revised. Minor perks are withdrawn. There’s a rift within top management and everyone knows it. A pending sale of the company is daily coffee talk.

Absenteeism 100

Absenteeism Short-term Long-term Strategic Planning 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Two developments bear noting. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. It focused its efforts on earning a majority share of Europe’s digital classified advertising market (a product that connects buyers and sellers).

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9