Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. Modeling scientist: Direct improvements in the product or business from the code developed and shipped. Decision scientist: Humans.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Procedia Engineering. Jossey-Bass. Madanchian, M., Hussein, N.,

Leadership 52

Leadership Journal Study Research 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. ” The role of community managers in fostering this culture can’t be overstated. Notable visitors include Mark Zuckerberg.) Who uses them?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Building Balanced Cultures. Metrics emphasized speed. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. What not to do. Don’t optimize for efficiency. What to do.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies. Performing market assessments.

Productivity 28

Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

Youtuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober illustrated the power of connectivity with a science demonstration, releasing thousands of balloons at once to earn a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records. airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

There are two key ways to do this: Company culture is a great way to assess the quality and ease of being mentored. If culture precludes more junior product managers from reaching out to more senior product managers, that will manifest in the phone calls and is a big red flag. Scale of Investment. How long has it been active?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Automotive telematics can capture metrics such as the frequency and length of trips and unsafe driving behaviors like hard braking and rapid acceleration. Digital leaders are 2.5x Digital leaders are 2.6x

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics 29

Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. But sustainable growth relies on developing a culture of constant innovation in everything the company does. That, in turn, has allowed the elevator companies to revamp their business models.

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Productivity Engineering Accenture Banking 44

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. For sector and company screening, the data provider CB Insights helps develop information-rich company profiles, visualize competitive dynamics and uncover nonfinancial performance metrics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We developed a new projection tool , which plots the trajectory of diabetes prevalence over time. Understand the social and cultural factors that present the greatest risk and vulnerability. Copenhagen, for example, has used learnings from the vulnerability assessment in developing the Copenhagen Diabetes Action Plan.

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System Culture Tools Examples 29

Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise.

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Ethics Company Policies Sales 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

It is estimated that in 2014 the world produced some 42 million metric tonnes of e-waste (discarded electrical and electronic equipment and its parts)—with North America and Europe accounting for 8 and 12 million metric tonnes respectively. Build a culture of collective values with customers. Create incentives.

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Company Apparel Retail Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

How do you recruit a developer making well into six figures, or an experienced salesperson with four kids in private school? A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control. Invest in training and professional development. Compensation goes hand-in-hand with corporate culture.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results?

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 50

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. Personalize offers?

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Culture : Is the work environment healthy or toxic? It has an academic culture focused on continuous improvement.Intellectual rigor and factual analysis skills are vital components of success, as is a can-do attitude with an optimistic focus. Hours are long, and the culture can be demanding. Employee Satisfaction.

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Oliver Wyman Boston Consulting Group Consulting Bain 81

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. As is now well-known, instead of propelling Kodak into the future, the digital camera became a massive missed opportunity.

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System Talent Resources Research 31

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2017

We’ve learned a lot from our experiences at Twitch, and discovered some best practices for how organizations may implement their own forecasting training programs, create a culture of forecasting, and better anticipate the future. Our engineer was at 75% confidence we’d hit our goal, and our lead from partnerships was at 70%.

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Company Training Training Engineering 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Because of this, a fourth motivational principle must be added: personal growth and development. Creating any kind of cultural transformation requires a long-term commitment, and that expectation should be set from the start across the various stakeholders interested in bringing the organization into the data-driven era.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning models used in a popular search engine struggle to differentiate human images from those of gorillas , and show female searchers ads for lower paying jobs relative to male users. Although the quality of annotation is adequate for many tasks, human annotation is inherently prone to a plethora of culturally ingrained biases.

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Data Training Training Metrics 36

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Top management swiftly established a new team in Guangdong, away from the Shenzhen headquarters, and tasked a small group of engineers to reimagine a different social media platform, giving them carte blanche to cannibalize the existing QQ product. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users.

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Productivity Company Recruiting Recruitment 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

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Data Engineering Agile McKinsey 28

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. You and Your Team Series.

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Turnaround Engineering Leadership Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

It affects hiring practices, suppliers you work with, how you reward product development, and of course, marketing.” “We start with purpose, to transform healthcare, then we map that purpose to goals and metrics. In the on-boarding process, they set up their own business using Square to develop empathy and understanding.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

This was done in the hopes of developing specialists with certain areas of expertise which would then lead to new clients and high-paying tax and consulting jobs. Innovation and Engineering. KPMG CONSULTING CULTURE. KPMG prides itself on its work culture, with particular emphasis on work life balance. In 1996, Stephen G.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. And yet our management culture and tools are set up to work in terms of outputs. This is frequently the case in industrial production.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. Develop a complete understanding of the system. Create a dedicated multidisciplinary team. Protect the work.

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