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Thinking holistically about integrating ESG across the organization

Brimstone Consulting

A forward-looking ESG strategy deepens customer relationships and loyalty, improves the ability to attract and retain talent, reduces regulatory risk, increases the ability to attract capital, and results in increased resilience driven by a more nuanced understanding of stakeholder expectations. . Your Strategic Partner.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

One research study suggests that followers contribute on average 80% to the success of an organization. A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. Lee Powers/Getty Images. Both have advantages.

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Case Study: Should an Algorithm Tell You Who to Promote?

Harvard Business

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. “It’d be easier for me to trust the algorithm if I understood it better.”

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What We Have Learned About How Employees Learn

LSA Global

A recent study found that learning strategies and instructional design approaches are more effective than raw cognitive ability in acquiring new skills. Now students arrive at their answers through a new and often puzzling problem solving methodology. In a nutshell, effective learning is far more interactive. Learning Can Be Learned.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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Would a Hard Brexit Cripple the EU’s Digital Economy?

Harvard Business

Talent Availability. A recent techUK commissioned study, conducted by Frontier Economics , offers some data on what could be at stake for the future of the UK digital strengths in the Brexit negotiations. Almost a fifth of the digital workers in the UK are foreign, with 6% of the sector’s talent from EU countries.