HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Unfortunately, the coronavirus, leaving one with no time to prepare, has thrown many organizations into a turmoil, where they must decide whether to sink or swim, in terms of making through the economic shock/uncertainty.

Short-term 59

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Unfortunately, the coronavirus, leaving one with no time to prepare, has thrown many organizations into a turmoil, where they must decide whether to sink or swim, in terms of making through the economic shock/uncertainty.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2020

Whether caused by a pandemic, an economy in free fall, an unforeseen change in the competitive business environment or a problematic geopolitical issue, the world in which we operate is volatile and unpredictable. Leaders should convey a realistic picture of the dynamic environment of the market where conditions are likely to change rapidly.

Planning 117

Planning Learning-by-Doing Ryan Environment 117

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 94

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 94

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. Arguments for Strategic Cash. Facilitate Investments. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g.,

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

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. Challenge risk financing conventions.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 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

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The market offers a lot of opportunities for small businesses to thrive at the moment. There are more chances to expand than ever before, despite many market uncertainties. You have the internet turning the world into one global market and allowing you to tap into more potential customers. Understand the Laws.

Insurance 50

Insurance How To Finance Market Segmentation 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. Ironically, or providentially, I had just graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and was preparing to go into the intel field to catch these kinds of "bad guys." It was a humbling time to serve in uniform.

Blog 362

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. But the scale of the problem means cybersecurity should be a concern for every executive, from HR to Marketing. The risk is growing.

Content 8

Content Industry Finance Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

’” Or, consider a company I worked with that focused its marketing and sales efforts on market share. Each week it took a careful look at the effectiveness of last week’s efforts, comparing last week’s market share with the previous week’s. Note the impact: Gains in market share are hard to come by.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Information Technology Quality Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” The uncertainty that increasingly characterizes our world means that companies need to attract, retain, and develop motivated innovators who can help to imagine and realize new growth opportunities.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Chinese companies are relatively new to the M&A game, governments in many target markets are quick to detect a political agenda, Chinese companies sometimes struggle to obtain financing or face unexpected political opposition at home, and many acquiring Chinese firms operate in particularly dynamic — and volatile — global markets.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In this world, insurance companies will require fewer actuaries and more data scientists — individuals with the ability to mine data to tailor insurance offers to specific market segments or even individuals.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

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

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

JANUARY 12, 2011

The complexity and uncertainty of forging new ground makes it easy to get lost. For it to be successfully implemented, your development project needs to be accepted into the operations side of the business. Don't lose sight of the horizon. Make thinking visible to help teams stay on track and reinforce their goals.

Innovation 15

Innovation Brand Project Storytelling 15

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

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point. Vinod K.

NPV 12

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The private annuities market in general is maddeningly complex, and the products that get pushed the hardest by insurers are often a bad deal for consumers. Accounting has moved from a basis in history and income to one in which prices are marked to market. Compensation Finance Managing uncertainty'

Insurance 8

Insurance Price Uncertainty System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. This is where a startup''s lack of profitable operations would have worked to their advantage.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. The stock market is down 25%.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. Her attitude of retaining only good followers resulted in the loss of numerous well-experienced and efficient people. A poor manager or supervisor is more than just an organizational problem.

Leadership 419

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In regions in turmoil, this can be the difference between expanding operations and closing shop.

Franchising 8

Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Our research of more than 1,800 organizations over the last two years suggests at least five reasons for this: Business Uncertainty. With the next it might emphasize process discipline to implement a strategy targeting operational excellence. Or do employees feel like they are just operating in the dark?

Team 12

Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

This logic and the institutions that reinforce it, like competitive markets and the rule of law, have transformed the world and lifted billions of people from poverty. Gray areas are situations with high uncertainty and serious human stakes. In competitive markets, strong profits can be critical to survival and success.

ROI 8

ROI Long-term Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Then he abruptly stops acquiring when the P/E on his stock falls at the very end of the decade, 1969, and focuses on optimizing operations. He was an aggressive issuer when his stock was highly priced, and an aggressive purchaser when it was priced at a discount to the market. So it was a highly accretive activity for his shareholders.

Open-book 8

Open-book Price Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Then he abruptly stops acquiring when the P/E on his stock falls at the very end of the decade, 1969, and focuses on optimizing operations. He was an aggressive issuer when his stock was highly priced, and an aggressive purchaser when it was priced at a discount to the market. So it was a highly accretive activity for his shareholders.

Open-book 8

Open-book Price Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

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. The same dynamic may now complicate Google’s plans to re-enter China’s search market. At a time when the U.S.

CEO 10

CEO Politics Policies Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The illusion that equity crowdfunding can work is understandable because superficially it looks like: (1) eBay and other successful online markets; (2) donation crowdfunding, such as Kickstarter ; (3) angel investing in the startup world, which is prevalent (even if not necessarily successful for the average investor).

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13