Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

A lot of research has already been done on the significant contribution of immigrant scientists and engineers to the U.S. Less research, however, has been done on the presence of migrant and immigrant leadership in corporate America. As part of our research for a forthcoming INSEAD working paper, we made use of data from the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We Another speaker who underscored the intersection of CX and EX was Penny Stoker, talent leader, executive functions, at global consulting firm EY. The war for talent is real and it is worsening,” Taylor said.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Our research into over 20,000 workers of all skill levels across U.S. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. Metrics emphasized speed.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Our organizational alignment research found that sales strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. Sales Talent. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets. Otherwise your desire for a better sales playbook to drive better sales results will falter.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Staples requires its 35 senior vice presidents to sponsor high-potential female talent for leadership positions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

Usually, due diligence is conducted by lawyers and experts in finance or accounting rather than experts in understanding and diagnosing culture. In addition to organizational outcomes, research has linked culture to employee morale, commitment, health, productivity, and well-being. Lack of cultural due diligence is often a problem.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Our recent research aims to address this. We have merged in data on the firms backed by VC financing. Previous research has found that this phenomenon — called “up or out” — is how young firms create more jobs. Global talent flows will continue to be a fundamental force shaping the U.S.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

This is the appropriate home when Human Resources wants to do a talent review or when finance wants to share a new budget process. To that end, pre-reads should be thought provoking, often emphasizing information from external sources or internal metrics that aren’t examined frequently.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. You can’t fake it or force it.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Scholarly research directly linked the effects of an organization's culture on customer satisfaction, employee teamwork, cohesion, employee involvement, and innovation (Gregory et al., To maximize their technology and talent investments, organizations need a culture that aligns with data-driven decision-making (Bartlett, 2013).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

After more than 20 years of researching innovation in large companies, it’s clear to me that the successful intrapreneur is often more myth than reality. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Empowering talent. Firms are also able to source talent with some help from AI solutions, while cloud-based collaboration tools mean they’re not limited to hiring local candidates. Technology Must Become a True Partner Deloitte analysts advise firms to strike a balance between talent and technology.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.

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