HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. It will also be viewed as a morale booster and an investment in your people. So what should company leaders consider?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. It will also be viewed as a morale booster and an investment in your people. So what should company leaders consider?

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

What’s also fascinating is that The Global Family Business Index, a compilation of the largest 500 family firms around the globe intended to exemplify the economic power and relevance of family firms worldwide, found that 44 percent are owned by fourth generation or older family members. and China)” as cited in the report.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

  Her globalism and organizational mightwere attacked as commercially exploiting her image as a saintly servant whenshe was actually an aggressive empire-builder for the church.   Not once was she known to recant from her stand on the issues or pullback from her unpopular positions of morality and service. in February1997.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

are making coal plants more expensive, regulation is not truly impeding global fossil fuel use. And partly because of America’s intransigence, 19 years of global negotiations on binding limits on carbon have led nearly nowhere. The Guilt or Enlightenment: Moral Suasion . That’s a mighty big “if.” The Carrot: Money .

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

By the way, employee performance and morale at Wal-Mart is near all time lows… Diversity mandates just don’t work… Talent begets talent and blending occurs naturally when good decisions are made for the right reasons. You meant that to be funny, right, injecting some levity into this serious post?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

The most powerful and influential folks at Davos — the titans of the global economy — probably won't do anything to heal the world, for the simple reason that because, as things stand, they "profit" most from its suffering. Moral vacuums tend to empower the amoral. You don't find a lot of depth in a hot tub.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

But in his first work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments — which he considered his most meaningful contribution — he writes about our duty to fellow members of society. Predictably, the right quotes Wealth of Nations and the left quotes The Theory of Moral Sentiments. I don't think he was. This is conscious capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

But as information trickles out about how bad the repayment situation in AP is, a plausible global contagion scenario is emerging. In a recent paper, Jonathan Morduch and Jonathan Conning explain the role of debt and equity financing in the microfinance industry. But just rescheduling debt payments may not be enough.

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Microfinance Debt to Equity Ratio MFI Crisis 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal , the 17-nation euro zone remains the "weakest link" in our global economy after years of economic stagnation, mired in high unemployment, plagued with stalled or contracting economies, and paralyzed by political dysfunction. Economy Global business Government' Consider Portugal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S. Economy Finance' banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S. Economy Finance' banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 , “As technology makes data-driven HR decision-making a possibility, 77 percent of executives now rate people analytics as a key priority, up slightly from last year. The answer?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

That Greece with a population of a mere 11 million and a GDP of $300 billion (only 2% of the Eurozone economies) can create systemic risk for the world speaks volumes about the downside of global interdependence. As in previous debt crises, the debate over debt rescheduling revolves around two key concepts: moral hazard and systemic risk.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. The global economy wasnt as tightly, sharply interdependent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It wasn't perfect; yes, foreign currency transactions were problematic, yes, moral hazard was an issue, and perhaps my reading, having not been there myself, is frankly erroneous. The global economy wasn't as tightly, sharply interdependent. Tags: Economy Finance Global business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

My contention, though, is that in looking at some of the beguilements — moral, even existential — beckoning to consultants over the last two decades, and at what we know about how Gupta responded to them, we might possibly begin to better understand how he could have gotten himself into the current mess. billion to $3.4

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Thirty-one years later, I became Chairman and CEO of a global Fortune 300 company. The business environment has evolved enormously in the last decade with globalization, technology changes, and the emergence of leading companies from around the globe—amplifying the need for more diverse teams. Born in India, I arrived in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

Of course, as anyone who''s applied for a loan or credit card well knows, rating customers is an integral part of global finance. They cost more money, time, morale, talent, and opportunity that they''re ultimately worth. If reliability and good behavior doesn''t scale, they can''t succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In his Theory of Moral Sentiments , Adam Smith argues that duty and sympathy are part of our very nature, and that because of our innate morality, we can live collaboratively in a just and harmonious society. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. We believe the answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The dataset spanned 11 global companies and 58,542 hourly workers. The real difference could be even bigger, if you factor in other potential costs, such as litigation fees, regulatory fines, lower employee morale, and upset customers. and 3) daily performance data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. Sometimes you sense that something isn’t right at work.

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Ethics How To Morale Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. Ireland is not a role model for austerity policies, but rather a cautionary tale. The parallels between Spain and Ireland are striking.

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Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

But maybe this time it really is different, precisely because it's happening in the core of the global economy, not in some Argentine extremity. Not buying and holding Greek debt at the start of the crisis for a mere $50 billion now seems like a bad idea regardless of any concern for future moral hazard. Trust is not an optional extra.

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Crisis Bond Banking Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

” Nonetheless, there was much discussion about the potential for “ moral hazard ” abuses of the program as it scaled to our entire population; would a small subset of participants subsidize their care by demanding unwarranted refunds? The goal must be a global patient engagement strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Terranola’s stock began tanking that afternoon, precipitating a slide that took the Seattle-based company’s reputation, employee morale, and ability to raise capital along with it. But when his marketing chief got a tip that a global snack industry website was about to publish an interview with Hughes about Terranola, A.J.

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Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. The Moral Frame. Turn the moral spotlight on other frames, and it is clear that the Moral Frame encompasses them all.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today. The top 10 insurance brokers in the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Corporations that become deeply connected to their sales force typically saw increased revenues, more substantial margins, lower employee and contractor turnover, and a dramatic increase in morale. It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. Visit the “trenches!”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

but many lead global companies. The finance sector has also been active in responding on all five occasions. ” In this era of social media and instant global communications, business leaders find it increasingly difficult to hide in the shadows. Most of these CEOs have been based in the U.S.,

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