HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. For example, we worked with Washington University in St. There are no short-cuts in management.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 26, 2011

Lead by Example. This person should be in the operations leg of your organization where organization and efficiency are responded to. Leadership is an elusive quality but interestingly enough the people who want it usually aren’t leaders.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Take for example my LaserJet printer. When it works, it’s wonderful but the operative word is when it works. For a small business, this is a huge operational problem. HP used to be synonymous with great products, but lately quality is not the immediate adjective you would jump to when you describe HP Products.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

If, for example, you are trying to find out from one of your team why their colleague didn’t include the requested statistics in a report you were just handed, something along the lines of, “Is he having trouble finding them? For example, “I understand if you want to check in with X. Had a family emergency?”

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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

JUNE 28, 2012

And while both male and female entrepreneurs face these obstacles, women tend to experience these challenges more acutely, thanks to social structures that leave them out and a perceived or actual lack of business experience. Its Fast Runner program pairs entrepreneurs in Afghanistan, Rwanda, and El Salvador with volunteer U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Census Bureau shows that these businesses were more likely than the average business to close permanently after Hurricane Katrina, for example. Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Corporate volunteer programs range from one-day community service activities to mini-sabbaticals that send top performers to developing countries to lend their expertise to nonprofit organizations and proven entrepreneurs. Such volunteer assignments can do more than inject excitement into a humdrum job; they can ignite a career.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The result of poor culture fit due to turnover can cost an organization between 50-60% of the person’s annual salary, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). That’s why it’s a key trait to look for when recruiting.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The article, written by a leading group of service management thinkers (Jim Heskett, Tom Jones, Gary Loveman, Earl Sasser, and Len Schlesinger) is a great example of both the power a management idea can have, and how much work is required for an idea to become reality. This is a way of life , not an individual program.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

Looking across the client bases of the 39 institutions we deal with in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, 82 percent of their clients are poor women entrepreneurs. All are succeeding as financial service providers of choice for low income women entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

And it seems to be opening the door for new options that emphasize a deeply pragmatic approach to innovation, including mixing entrepreneurs and corporations. OneLeap began a platform enabling aspiring entrepreneurs from around the world to contact high profile investors, corporate leaders, and partners to help grow their start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The company had five years of growth experience and nearly 200 employees; most important, it was run by an aggressive local internet entrepreneur, Zhou Hongyi. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Those issues slowed us down on the product side as well.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Human Resource Management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. Increasing numbers of social programs grow with revenue generated by their own operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

There are considerable hurdles to scaling any health service in resource-constrained settings. Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. Management and leadership skills.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2016

Chris is a twenty-something entrepreneur in the midst of her start-up. Unfortunately, her title is a strategic, operational, financial, and cultural derailing eventuality to the intended track of her purpose, vision and values. For example, Gallup reports that less than one-third of U.S. Why shouldn’t she be a CEO?

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 3, 2014

Caution is the operative word. Let me give you an example of this in business leadership. I’ve never seen a successful entrepreneur known for cautiousness, have you? Human Resources Leadership Marketing Strategy BP Culture Donald Trump Entrepreneurship Howard Schultz Life Mentoring Starbucks Vision'

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