Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. Equipment leasing can help you gear up for construction projects on Anchorage’s two active military bases. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

By testing your marketing campaign, you gain more time, money and experience for future projects. Whatever you do, keep in mind that ongoing testing is critical to your company’s success in the future. Related posts: The Marketing Mix Made Easy to Understand and Use While creating your annual marketing plan, using a combination of.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Way back in 1793 women could not hold patents so she passed the concept to Eli Whitney who got all the fame and glory. Now think about the women close to you.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Now 45, Heather Aguilera—who was an IT Project Manager “earning six figures” at a major Canadian bank before she left to become a SAHM—was eventually reduced to thinking she “would have to work in a donut shop.”

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Communicate Openly Even if the only answer you have about the future of a project is, "We don’t know," taking the time to communicate that to your team lets them know that you consider them integral and when there is more information, you will be willing to share that, too.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Your healthcare executive resume will be read by not only scientific professionals in medical affairs, research and development, clinical operations, but your resume will also be reviewed by financial, operational, marketing and human resources leaders. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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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. Personally, I have some decisions to make about how I’m going to spend my professional time this year.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

He found me through his network, contacted me through Facebook, and we started and completed a project for him. I connected again with him on Facebook through the online version of that same political group, and I let him know what I do for a living. Recently, his company needed a web designer.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

I do know that what I project out into the Universe will come back to me. And where did this belief originate? Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure. Faith in abundance has become a part of my cellular makeup.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

The human resources department, which conducted daily exit interviews with staff leaving the hotel, was concerned that negative comments about working conditions would make finding new talent difficult. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Financial capital is assumed to be virtually unlimited, while certain types of human capital are in short supply. Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. Risk is now considered a feature, not a bug.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Meanwhile, he took an interest in the project I described in the presentation, and followed up to see how it was doing. A year later, I had an interesting new job as the human resources representative on the mergers and acquisitions team. Through this increased interaction, we developed a comfortable relationship.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. To make sure we all stay on-topic, all posts will be reviewed by our editors and may be edited for clarity, length, and relevance. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” Almost half the respondents cited finances as the main culprit for their tension, while being over-scheduled, choosing the right gifts, and remaining healthy also contributed to people’s holiday woes. Plan a review of the workload and see if some project deadlines can be extended into next year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Hiring Human resources Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Projecting those findings out over the next eight years, the nonprofit sector could need to replace the equivalent of every existing C-suite position, creating, if patterns hold, a case of leadership musical chairs. Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

revising projections for the coming month) need to happen frequently. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly. After the roundtable, review ongoing projects, stopping only on issues where the team needs to weigh in.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

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? Being clear about this will help you direct your resources to those programs that stand the best chance of early payback. Alternatively, human resources might be the right place.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In the process she developed managerial muscle in finance, human resources, governance, and IT, and, as a bonus, Bronwyn gained more flexibility in her schedule since she didn’t have external client demands driving her day-to-day work.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. To reinvent the wheel is time-consuming. Even the most successful empire-builders found shoulders to stand on! The return in connections is usually greater than the effort extended! Critically leverage contacts to expand your network.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. Otherwise, issues raised will go unresolved or projects will drift back to more conventional paths.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

For mature, large-scale, multinational companies, there is a virtuous cycle of efficiency improvements that frees up resources, which can then be deployed for growth and innovation projects. The biggest opportunities for these companies are simplification and horizontal integration projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Innovation takes time and costs money so projects that aren't clearly linked to your "why" are especially vulnerable to fail. Media:scape project room photograph courtesy of Steelcase Inc. For it to be successfully implemented, your development project needs to be accepted into the operations side of the business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Switching to an unlimited time-off policy can solve the liability issue; wiping away the average vacation liability saves companies $1,898 per employee , according to research from Project: Time Off. Company-sponsored gatherings like team-bonding activities and retreats were low on the list as well.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. Welcome to the Quick Take, a conversation with Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. I’m Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. For example, if a nonprofit is experiencing an issue with hiring, we provide human capital consultants to help them revamp their process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

They can also consider partnering with colleagues proficient in finance technology for guidance about blockchain, a technology capable of transforming how HR stores and verifies private employee data. Such internal collaborations may not only help HR attain new skills, but also help to foster a data-driven culture across the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Leaders of corporate strategic development need to analyze all of these considerations and be prepared for disruption to ripple through many functions — not just product development and manufacturing, but also finance, tax, legal, human resources, and IT.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Cross-border data flows have grown by a factor of 45 over the past decade, and they’re projected to post another ninefold increase by 2020. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 trillion in 2014 alone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We We have an open dialog to make sure we are aligned on a unified cadence," Coco said. "If

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They’re constantly driving data-driven reviews and making recommendations. But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. Data scientists in business process algorithmization scenarios are project managers. Data scientists here facilitate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

A recent study in the UK, for instance, shows that 3 out of 4 judges, 2 out of 3 doctors, 3 out of 4 finance directors, and 1 out of 2 chief executives come from fairly well-off families. The algorithm allows the company to “project” how the new hires will fit into the environment. What can be done about this?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others.

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