Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Sometimes this strategy even works. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Sometimes this strategy even works. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. Maybe it's that strategy consulting has hit something of a dead-end, as Walter Kiechel wrote last week. hedge funds? The Cambridge, Mass.,

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and ethical behaviors)? Investors have also worked to track and measure these intangibles, even if more subjective.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

One has to be aware of the likely pitfalls, including being compliant with the equal opportunity acts and ethical standards. Negligent hire claims are a serious risk and a thorough background check helps you hedge that risk. (A But beware, the world of background checks is a complicated one to say the least. Here are a few pointers—.

Pre-Employment Screening 105

Pre-Employment Screening Guidelines How To Reference 105

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

I couldn't believe some of the people I was seeing from McKinsey," recalls a partner at another strategy firm. When strategy consulting firms first got going in the 1970s and 1980s, it was probably easier for the hotshot MBAs they hired to look with disdain at the poor Joes they were nominally attempting to help.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? A side-door strategy , I thought. He was dead serious.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

These contradictory tendencies motivate traditionally “green” and ethical businesses to unite and stake a claim to their authentic difference, fueling the growth of B corporations and other new types of organizations.

Company 8

Company Hedge Short-term Long-term 8