Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

So, if the circumstances aren’t dire this might sound like, “If I had a better idea of what was going on, I’d be able to strategize with you on a work-around solution,” or, if the stakes are nice and high, “Without a better idea of what’s going on, the entire project is in jeopardy—which includes our team.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

I have to weigh out the fact that I’m needed to manage the State Fair as a project against the reality that my balancing of job, life and love could use some work of its own. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Thanks 4 Women Entrepreneurs January 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm Great post.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Senior leaders were so focused on financial impact that they couldn’t see the ethical damage. Instead, he called this an operations and compliance issue, perhaps not realizing that both of those functions influence corporate culture. For many in finance, projecting an aura of self-reliance is part of what garners respect.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. It must be led not by staff, but by business leaders who devote appropriate resources, hire outstanding people and embed the prevent, detect and respond activities deeply in business operations.

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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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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 For project purchases, such as printing, graphic production, video production and materials creation, consultants customarily mark up slightly, to cover bank financing and handling costs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Most companies have some version of a matrix, with a combination of enabling "functions" (such as IT, HR, and Finance) and line business units. As a project manager once told me, "We can use one snowstorm for many months as an excuse for being late with our deliverables.". The first is the complexity of your organization's structure.

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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. government. “A

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal. Many companies claim to adhere to strict policies about child labor. More diligence is possible.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from healthcare and government to agriculture and finance. 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

JANUARY 10, 2014

From a strictly evolutionary perspective, there is adaptive significance to the first two “Rs,” even as they are both ethically questionable, even deplorable. The third of these “Rs,” redirected aggression, seems the most illogical of the three, and yet even here, natural selection may well have been operating similarly.

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