Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. An example of a CEO setting the wrong tone and culture is Travis Kalanick, the founder and former CEO of Uber.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

Would you share an example of where “culture” was rotten and the ensuing results? On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 97

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With core values, you can guide your business in the ethical direction you want the business to go. Until living and leading out the core values intersects with business operations. Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash. If you find yourself in this example, you can turn around. Sounds great, right?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

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Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

For example, if your partner isn’t on board, many people might choose to avoid conflicts between “your-wife-or-your-life” or “your-man-or-your-plan.” For example, starting a lawn service with a mower and a truck will demand far less investment and risk than borrowing a lot of money to buy an existing landscaping company.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias. The importance of strong analytical skills will grow with the demand for human workers with a digital engineer’s skill set.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

The Civil Rights and more recent Tea Party movements are good examples of what happens when angry followers decide to do something to change the status quo. Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. That last example came during my conversation with Airbnb data scientist Robert Chang. Ethics is among the field’s biggest challenges. Among other things, I’ve asked them about what their jobs entail. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K. trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. It can even be quantified. As the U.S.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

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

JANUARY 26, 2012

People have become increasingly concerned with business's impact on the world, and search engines like Google or Bing make it trivially easy to find out who makes a product and how, where they operate, who they have offended, and what causes they have supported. For all kinds of reasons, that has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. He joined just after completing his BS in engineering and has had an excellent progression with the company. To: Dana Knight.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. Partly this is an operational capability — how do you quickly shut down avenues through which information is escaping? This means you must have a way of containing the damage and recovering.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. In 2009, for example, more than 550,000 businesses were opened, and more than 660,000 closed.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 78

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. They are two sides of the same coin; one cannot exist without the other. HR can and should demand more of leaders, and vice versa.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. Even if it does predict who will steal, what if, for example, being raised by a single parent meant that you did not get a job, all other things being equal? But a few things have changed with the rise of big data.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

For example, beyond the technical secrets of research and development that companies rightfully want to protect from leaking, plaintiffs in trade secrecy litigation frequently try to claim client lists and even general know-how as protected trade secrets. However, judges are rightly skeptical. In the ongoing Waymo v. ” Alsup asked.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. Even if it does predict who will steal, what if, for example, being raised by a single parent meant that you did not get a job, all other things being equal? But a few things have changed with the rise of big data.

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Succession Software Commitment Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Or is one more a pawn in a rigged game of self-destruction; a mark in a ponzi scheme; a dull-eyed pack animal to which the engines of extraction are yoked? Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf?

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Twin Debates.

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Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To take just one striking example, imagine if there had been a discussion around how to interpret probabilistic models in the run up to the 2016 U.S. Although it has not yet been formally incorporated into data science workflows, I have added data ethics as the fifth key concept because ethics needs to be part of any conversation about data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

And many activists have given up on governments and are focusing instead on companies as the main engine of social change. This is still unfamiliar territory for executives who lack a proper understanding of how activists operate and what makes boycotts successful. First, activists are highly strategic.

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