Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2019

Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The team ethic truly counts for everything. Cloud computing, smartphone messaging Apps , and project management systems are all very useful. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening. On with the exam… Section I: Character. should anything be transparent? Thanks, sami [link] mikemyatt Thanks for the comment Sami.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The leader has failed to communicate with those around him of what their system does, its current and future capabilities, and the group or individual's vision for the future. You assume that the person asking the question is always right. But are they?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It was an event packed with prominent people who work (or worked) in finance, but seem to come from a different, more genteel world than the bulk of modern Wall Street: Bogle, Swensen, former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, former TIAA-CREF CEO John Biggs. It drives hard work, innovation, and the success of the capitalist system.

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Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 13

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. How sad is this?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2023

Within a healthcare organization, there is a head of every department who ensures operations run smoothly. Healthcare Administrator As a healthcare administrator, you oversee the day-to-day operations of a particular department within the organization.

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Chief Executive Officer Career Leadership Guidelines 110

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

We now have AI systems that learn from vast amounts of complex, unstructured information and turn it into actionable insight. We also expect AI systems to pervasively support the decisions we make in our professional and personal lives in just a few years. And it often makes us a little uncomfortable. Insight Center.

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Ethics Technology System Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

The CFO-GC alliance has always been important because the finance function and the legal function are truly the nervous system of the corporation—sending critical signals to all parts of the company about the accuracy of the financials and compliance with law.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In examining what took them so long to react, Stumpf’s comments portray a leadership team that refused to believe the sales fraud could be systemic in a culture such as theirs. Senior leaders were so focused on financial impact that they couldn’t see the ethical damage. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

Banking 9

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms.

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Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. The initiative sought to improve manufacturing operations — to deliver high-quality products in relatively small batches and on shorter production deadlines.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Enron owned the largest natural gas pipeline system in the U.S., Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? In essence, these financing structures were a "fail safe" designed to ensure that Enron''s balance sheet remained investment grade. Ethics Failure Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. A firm’s cultural capital is a type of asset that impacts what a firm produces and how it operates. naqiewei/Getty Images.

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Company Banking Incentives Human Capital 10

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

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.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

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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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Learning-by-Doing Software Technology Travel 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights. Experimentation is vital.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice. Ethics Finance Technology' When he got back to work and described his findings to his colleagues, Schwall’s conclusion was that “U.S. financial markets had always been either corrupt or about to be corrupted.”.

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Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There is reason to worry that the reward system in our field, particularly in the publication process, is misaligned with the goals of good science. At the same time, it is long past time for the field to have a serious conversation where their data comes from, and the ethics of using big data. If not, whose interests does it serve?

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Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. Meanwhile, the rest of the country's banks, which make most of their money from banking , have a load of new consumer-protection rules to contend with, plus continued competition from the surviving parts of the shadow banking system.

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Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

However, questions of accountability remain unanswered, when it comes to determining what actually happened in the past, what systems failed, and who was responsible for possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars bribery of foreign officials. Think GM and its delays in addressing problems with an ignition switch.).

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Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

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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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business. Thank you for restoring trust in the system. I am not specialist but I try to learn. Create a work environment where we feel safe. I recognize some time the Confusion with irrelevant facts that. We must weak up to reality and show the good comportment.

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Influence Blog Leadership Video 359

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Somehow, a theoretical assumption, widely used in a one cluster of academic specialties — economics, finance, econometric modeling, and the like — became transformed, primarily in the United States near the end of the 20th century, into a supreme decision principle. But perhaps managers have no choice.

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ROI Long-term Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In regions in turmoil, this can be the difference between expanding operations and closing shop.

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Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8

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

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Speciality coffee shops are competing with retail brands for consumers’ attention in the grocery aisle, new coffee formats are being introduced (such as single-cup brewing systems), and U.S. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades.

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Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

can benefit consumers and the economy with lower cost (although foreign operations often sell in foreign markets). The cash from high revenues and margins is also often used to enhance the corporation: for improving its operations, productivity, technology and products, or for increasing reach and scale efficiencies through acquisitions.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 13

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Without these term limits, the congress has no reason to include themselves in the health care system they impose on us. However, I have recently changes my tune. There is motivation to limit their own pay to that near what their constituents make. I AGREE 100%!!!! The latter focuses on techniques, methods and is very short-sighted.

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