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What Will It Take to Make Finance More Gender-Balanced?

Harvard Business Review

It is no wonder we came to fear our gender would keep us from achieving the same level of success as our male peers in finance. We turned to those most able to effect change in finance: the professionals actively working in the field. Family-friendly policies alone may not be enough to drive change in gender equality in finance.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one. Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well.

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Find the Reverse Leaders in Your Midst

Harvard Business Review

In my work with focus groups, interviews with leaders, and reviews of frontline employees' performance appraisals, I'm seeing more and more of these reverse leaders. They maintain an unswerving customer focus. They break them because they're focused on the outcomes rather than the process for producing outcomes.

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Leading the Charge for Sustainable and Inclusive Supply Chains

HR Digest

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. As the scale and scope of our company have expanded over the years, so has our focus on taking meaningful steps to improve the world in which we live. The HR Digest: C. In fact, we are more than 90% of the way to our 2025 emissions reduction goal.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. For one marketing services firm, it meant being exposed to their biggest client's development teams and sitting through technical tests and focus groups to better appreciate and understand how its products were actually designed and built.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

And this isn’t for lack of ambition among them: Black women are even more likely to aspire to hold a powerful position with a prestigious title than white women. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group.

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It’s a Match! How to Create an Equitable Compensation System That Fits You

HR Digest

Employees who believe they are paid fairly are more willing to give back to the organization and retain their position there. Establish a clear and objective job grading system to determine the relative quantifiers for different positions and what is fair for each role. Those who feel unfairly compensated move on.

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