Eric Jacobson

MARCH 24, 2012

I recently coordinated a roundtable with thought leaders across a range of Human Resources functions to participate in a discussion which sought to explore the challenges this trend poses--and to see what opportunity it presents to HR. Where would marketing be without social media? Do you agree or disagree?

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. One of the ways we bring this to life is through our Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. Black professionals do not just participate in African American community events. It opens your services to additional market niches. We are a diverse population, and the same ways of communicating do not have desired effects anymore. About the Author.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

According to their human resource department, it is harder to get a job at Zappos than to be accepted at Harvard Business School. 9) Customer and market focus. Participants will learn how to communicate using the DISC language as a way of understanding themselves and others. Happy employees make your customers happy.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Access to global markets.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Needing a way to capture and document this event, I recruited Dan Evans , our Chief Marketing Officer , to join me on a journey that would span over 42,000 miles on four continents ( 11 countries total, including stops ) to interview and record sessions with experts in the science and art of leadership. Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This would include a day spent with an installation tech and a day spent with a call center agent – preferably, in a market other than your own. In the high potential development program, we took participants to other locations and gave them a chance to learn more about a new business unit.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 20, 2023

The human resources sector of the business world continues to evolve and change drastically. Bureau of Statistics, about 675,000 jobs were occupied by human resource professionals in 2020. In this article, we try to break down what human resources is all about and detail what different employers might require for the job.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Human Resources Oversees Training. Mentorship (which has seven levels) is a stairstep process of bettering all participants. Mentorship.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. But, as participants in these programs regularly articulate, they are insufficient without access to capital and markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Volunteering offers participants the opportunity to strengthen their skills, broaden their networks, break out of a career rut, and find new meaning in their job. Originally offered to just a few departments, the program is now company-wide, with more than half of all employees participating in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

And many CEOs we talked to, like Owen Mahoney of Nexon, agree that the CHRO is one of the most strategic roles someone could have: “Businesses grow or die based on the quality of their people, so the human resource executive role is arguably the most strategic in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

As with other kinds of selling and marketing, you may learn as much, if not more, from the feedback of customers who choose not to buy as you learn from those who do. Can you provide any observations about, or feedback or suggestions for the hiring manager, Human Resources, or the organization overall?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Chief among these are access to capital, access to markets, and access to networks and skills development. Recognizing these challenges, several organizations have thankfully begun to address this knowledge gap: The Business Council for Peace (Bpeace), operates on the principle that job creation can foster peace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In the traditional village, you chatted with your neighbor at the local market, face-to-face: this was the heart of community. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Especially for operating around the globe, electronic communication has become essential.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. Improving Operational Efficiency. The spread of capitalism and the associated growth in emerging markets provide organizations of all sizes with an opportunity to participate in globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I’d argue that companies already know how to improve employee experience: All they have to do is apply to their HR practices the principles of customer experience design that their marketing and operations teams probably already use. Companies should be able to provide experiences designed to appeal to these different segments.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Given what we have learned from studying, advising, and participating in ongoing and past efforts by employers to improve health care, using collective power as leverage often is not sufficient to drive meaningful change. And while employers operate across state lines, very few providers do. That’s good.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions. The Profit Proposition.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work. 5) Operational Transparency -.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. At these collaborative meetings, participants have identified medical conditions and quality indicators important to employers and designed treatment regimens that ensure little variation from evidence-based standards. Engage employees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” How refreshing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Competition among the most innovative companies is growing ever more heated for one of the most highly-coveted resources on the market: talented employees. Based on these results, we also expect to see a measurable increase in the engagement of participating employees, which we can track through assessments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The surgeons (all physicians from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital) participated because they wanted a reimbursement model that rewarded providers for delivering better medical outcomes for their patients at a lower cost. All participants have been impressed by the collaborative ethos of the working group.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

“There are lots of things that can be done in large organizations but simply aren’t because nobody has the time or resources.” The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. Remo Masala, Chief Marketing Officer at Kuoni , is one of the executives taking his company in a new direction.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). the number of jobs increases.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Data compiled from the network surveys I give my participants shows that we are still not using networks to our best advantage. That’s fine if an executive is looking to move elsewhere, as some of my participants were. Learn more about your market value. So, many of the letters never got out of Nebraska. Start a blog.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

By mid-morning coffee, the creative department was coming back to life, and we participated in the daily ritual of wandering around the airy Georgian splendor of our Edinburgh offices and critiquing each teams crumpled creations. It wasn’t brutal or destructive. This has come as quite a shock I can tell you. An elaborate hoax.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, once observed that “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing people.” And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Retailers today invest millions of dollars on marketing campaigns to drive customers into stores but don’t invest in labor planning to ensure that traffic is converted into sales.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2017

With approximately 40,000 runners participating in one of the world’s largest charity fundraising events, crowd control necessitates that there be three different starting points. All are amateur runners participating in the same race and for fairly similar reasons. This is a pretty clear sign.

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