Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

While many authors have written about the concept of servant leadership, one of the best definitions still comes from Robert Greenleaf , who originally coined the phrase in an essay published back in 1970. In January 2017 I wrote an HBR article about prioritizing those activities where passion and contribution intersect.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

and almost no companies report engineering data specifically), Pinterest’s goal in 2016 was to hire women engineers at nearly twice this rate. I joined Pinterest as the company’s first Head of Diversity in January of 2016. We created a playbook and training for managers focused on inclusive leadership.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In 2016 John Stumpf, then the CEO of Wells Fargo, was called before Congress to explain a massive scandal. ” One CEO we interviewed for our upcoming book was very open about this problem. But his leadership role had taken a toll, and eventually, empathy was all but absent from his thinking and decision making.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

One evening in February 2016, writer and filmmaker Ava DuVernay met with two top Disney executives about the possibility of directing an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. Monzino/Getty Images. DuVernay, 44 at the time, had overcome many challenges to reach that moment.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

One young female banker we interviewed for our 2016 report “Women in Financial Services” even told us, “I came into my career in financial services with aspirations to make it to the top. As one Millennial banker we interviewed put it: “All of our senior leaders are older white males.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

When we recently interviewed top M&A executives in Europe about their experience, fully three-quarters of them said that digital disruption has had a relatively large impact or even requires a complete overhaul of their M&A strategy. In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 times Vormetric’s sales.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. For example, in January 2016, Saudi Arabia announced far-reaching cutbacks of domestic subsidies for energy and water, a political no-go area for politicians across the region only a few years ago.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

While interviewing a candidate, we might ask her where she went to school or to share her experiences. In 2016 Anton Hanebrink , Intuit’s Chief Corporate Strategy and Development Officer, took over a high-performing team known for its contributions to the direction of the company. Take, for example, the hiring process.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

Nashville-based entrepreneur Sherry Deutschmann built her company, LetterLogic, into an enterprise with $40 million in revenue before selling it to a private equity firm in 2016. They likely devalued my leadership abilities because I had unwittingly devalued myself by not paying myself enough.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Immediately after joining Nikon, he decided to interview some of them. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2016, it was estimated that 67% of well-formulated strategies failed due to poor execution. There are many explanations for this abysmal failure rate, but a 10-year longitudinal study on executive leadership conducted by my firm showed one clear reason. For many leaders, the taxing nature of enterprise-level leadership is too great.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Interviews.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S. In response to findings from employee surveys and interviews, Vivek and his leadership team rolled out steps aimed at continuing to foster innovation while defusing latent tensions.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

We recently studied three such organizations in-depth using a combination of surveys, interviews, and direct observation, and we noted a consistent theme: While everyone in the organization experienced collaboration overload, women felt the burden disproportionately. This creates the conditions for collaboration overload.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 15, 2017

The survey was done by research firm Edelman Intelligence and consisted of 25-minute online interviews conducted on October 13 – November 16, 2016. This is Edelman’s 17th annual trust and credibility survey. and China and 200 informed public respondents in all other countries.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

And earlier this month, under President Obama’s leadership, the White House issued a report, “Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence,” discussing AI’s possible applications and how it is likely to impact society, for better or worse. We also conducted telephone interviews with 150 CMOs in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones? I looked at quarterly earnings call transcripts for Yahoo and two of its competitors from late 2005 to the first quarter of 2016 and counted mentions of “mobile,” “phone,” or “smartphone.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Chief among them were behavioral-interview methods to uncover candidates’ intrinsic motivations and biases. And in Tennessee, we reduced behavioral-health-related readmissions for our Memphis population from 40% in 2016 to 13% in 2017 and 2018.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

To explore this question, we interviewed senior marketing executives across dozens of top brands. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. Our study was published in Consulting Psychology Journal in December 2016. We examined data from 72 executive coaching engagements we conducted from 2008 to 2014.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2018

Our aim was to discover how female CEOs explain their own success, and to develop recommendations for supporting women’s leadership careers more generally. We embarked on an in-depth study of the leadership journey of 12 female CEOs , most of whom lead large, global corporations. ” The female CEOs we interviewed agreed.

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BCG

AUGUST 29, 2016

Article Tuesday, August 30, 2016. BCG article, August 2016.) Our 2016 analysis of thousands of transactions over the 25 years from 1991 through 2015 identifies four additional characteristics that distinguish portfolio masters from other companies in both their buying and selling activities.

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

” Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman implied much the same in an HBR interview in which she described her efforts to turn around the company. So far in 2016, the value of the two new companies has reversed the decline, giving investors hope that the founder’s mentality is back.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

revenue in 2016 and 26,000 personnel. Semi-annual evaluations focus on areas likethought leadership, client leadership, and people leadership. It was founded in 1963 and was one of the first enterprises to focus on thought leadership. Most reported diversity factors have been on a positive trend since 2016.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. We taught journalists how to interview entrepreneurs and elicit their stories of growth.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

It’s not a secret that women’s progress into senior leadership roles has been glacially slow. The increase in women’s leadership was most visible in France, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden, which all saw increases of at least 10 percentage points. That hasn’t happened. Methodology.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

billion in 2016 for Lore’s company in its increasingly desperate efforts to more effectively compete against Amazon. Leadership teams and newly acquired talent alike typically and unfortunately overestimate their possession of those qualities. Consider Jet.com founder Marc Lore: Walmart paid $3.3 ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

In a recent theoretical article , we examined the reasons employees turn down expatriate assignments. According to the 2016 Global Mobility Trends survey , family concerns are the top reason for expat assignment refusal, followed by concerns about the trailing partner’s career. Jane Heifetz. Dorie Clark.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

According to the Jobvite Recruiter Nation Report 2016 , 60% of recruiters say culture fit is of utmost importance in hiring decisions. According to Mark Murphy , founder and CEO of Leadership IQ, 89% of new hire failures are due to attitude, while just 11% are due to a lack of skill. Recognize that experience doesn’t equal fit.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We offer such a roadmap here, the outcome of a research project , at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, with 25 CEOs and their practices for mastering short-term pressures and creating long-term social and economic value, even in the toughest conditions. This value-based leadership paid off. Has something changed?’

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

2016 might be the year we recognized the impact of an often-derided literary genre: leadership self-help. As far as I can tell, however, the leadership-industrial complex is hardly celebrating the prospect of President Trump, management-guru-in-chief, as a happy ending. It is a case study of the production of leadership.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) Most of these CEOs have been based in the U.S., but many lead global companies.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2017

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. Google’s recipe of being nice and joining in makes perfect sense (and is hardly counterintuitive). 0% of team members were considered pragmatic. 29% of team members were considered innovative.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We began to explore this question by looking back to Trump’s rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign, when this group coalesced as the core of his political base. What we found shows a consistent approach to leadership communication. What Trump’s Rhetoric Tells Us About His Communication Patterns.

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