Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Even without speaking the local language, you can learn a huge amount about a country’s culture from tuning into local television shows, especially comedy programs. When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows.

Culture 28

Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. But what else did you do?

Interviews 28

Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 28

Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

There are so many ways corporate relationships can be disharmonious; In one study , 94 percent of the participants stated they had worked at one time or another with an individual who created a toxic work environment. One employee we were interviewing told us that working at his corporation was almost like a religious experience.

Survey 38

Survey Turnaround Leadership Interviews 38

Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

We interviewed roughly 30 LCPs to get a sense of how this new role is shaping up. Most of the LCPs we studied began with the task of ensuring the PE firm itself had the right talent, culture, and leadership, and then moved on to do the same for portfolio companies. The LCP’s Role in the PE Firm.

Leadership 28

Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers. Dense geographic concentrations in regions such as Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston and Bangalore foster even more cultural idiosyncrasies. We then interviewed more than a dozen U.S.

Talent 28

Talent Culture Turnaround Interviews 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. The Turnaround. Why the difference? ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

Chemicals 36

Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 36

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

One study I did as part of my work at Genesis Advisers and IMD, of HR leaders in Fortune 500 companies, showed that new hires represented on average one third of all transitions in the executive ranks in a typical year. The study also looked at relative levels of support for executives vs. more junior managers.

Turnaround 28

Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 28