HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to a study conducted by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, diversity in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity has proven to be beneficial for companies operating in the United States. “We looked at their experiences and not just their demographic background—the more functional aspect of diversity.

Diversity 101

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 101

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. high technology or pharmaceutical) that are investing in projects with uncertain long-range payoffs.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Firms that were negatively affected by Sandy applied for credit at twice the rate of unaffected ones.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

and EU increased sanctions on Russia that same year, Russian authorities raided the Russian headquarters of Ikea , which has long struggled with interference from the Russian government. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. .” Similarly, hours after the U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

I just took my company through an acquisition and found that even the smallest operational change can have a significant negative impact on both employees and customers. Maintaining quality customer experience, we found, requires a mix of expert individuals and operational processes. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Operations 9

Operations Brand Ryan COO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Also, with technological innovation, there will always be a high degree of uncertainty regarding the kind of talent your company will need in the future. General Electric has been particularly forward-thinking regarding the new skills it will need to be successful over the long term.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

There are more chances to expand than ever before, despite many market uncertainties. You need to take the time to understand the laws in different markets you are operating in. Market uncertainties certainly make creating and maintaining good cash flow harder, but it is not an impossible thing to do.

Insurance 50

Insurance How To Finance Market Segmentation 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Not all these have proven to be as stable as investors might have liked, with riots, coups, military takeovers, and surprise election results introducing uncertainty. In both places, we know the instability will worsen macroeconomic performance in the short term. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

NPV 13

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

And short-term numbers at that. Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In 1968, Harvard Business School professor Howard Raiffa published a book called Decision Analysis: Introductory Lectures on Choices Under Uncertainty. They also stressed that not long ago that they had been quite profitable, and their major problem was the magnitude of the recession and the associated drop in demand.

Process 8

Process Uncertainty Analysis Industry 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. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

As the supply of courageous board candidates dwindles, global companies are in need of battle-tested directors more than ever — board members who fully understand and can actively engage in virtually all aspects of an enterprise's operations. This often causes board disruption and sends damaging signals to financial markets.

Compliance 9

Compliance Maslow Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. Mnangagwa’s first actions in office underscore how important he views economic recovery.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Then again, this is partly because the insurance companies are operating at an information disadvantage of their own: The people who buy annuities, especially inflation-linked ones , tend to have good reason to believe that they’re going to live a long time. Compensation Finance Managing uncertainty'

Insurance 8

Insurance Price Uncertainty System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Because the model relied on providing long-term loans, Eric asked questions about repayment and cultural bias. The student presenter acknowledged the risks and simply stated, "Well, we won''t know any of that for a long time. This is where a startup''s lack of profitable operations would have worked to their advantage.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Everyone has bad days at work or even long periods when they feel disheartened about their job. I find a lot of people paralyzed by their unhappiness with their current reality," says Leonard Schlesinger, the president of Babson College and coauthor of Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future.

Reputation 12

Reputation Case Study Short-term Cost 12

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

It’s also a reminder that leadership, ultimately, is a spiritual practice (whether or not one chooses to put it in religious terms). After having two of my companies colapse around me within a ten year period, I spent a long long time wallowing in it…blaming everything but myself for my circumstances.

Leadership 420

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are. Juliano Howard T.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Rather than tying up vast amounts of funds in a unicorn startup and waiting for the long play — an IPO or an acquisition — investors can see gains more quickly, and can pull profits out more easily, via ICOs. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Distributed Database.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

But organizations themselves can rarely, if ever, pursue the long-term approach to talent development described in the latest reportage on Seal Team 6. Rather than creating a long development arc for talent, organizations educate people in short and often unconnected bursts. Strategies don't stay fresh for long.

Team 13

Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Gray areas are situations with high uncertainty and serious human stakes. It is a simple, clear, and highly useful criterion — for routine decisions in businesses operating in competitive markets and with sound legal systems. But, for gray area decisions , the standard answer isn’t the right answer.

ROI 8

ROI Long-term Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. With the confirmation of Robert Lighthizer as United States trade representative, the long-delayed start of the formal process to begin renegotiation of NAFTA with Canada and Mexico can move forward. Renegotiating NAFTA.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A CEO could be forgiven for thinking it’s safest to only weigh in on political issues that affect operational and strategic goals, industry dynamics, or a company’s regulatory and policy landscape. But a company’s exposure to a political issue is also determined by its values. At a time when the U.S. At a time when the U.S.

CEO 10

CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Purchasing the equities of early stage companies, often before they have products or revenues or even employees, is intrinsically complicated by the fact that investors and entrepreneurs have inherently misaligned interests in the short run, and aligned interests only in the very long run.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. The cost of doing business — and especially the cost of local production — would go up, and budget-busting government spending increases would erode long-term business confidence despite short-term stimulus.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9