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Economy, Strategy & Finance Data Reactions
2014
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5 Questions CEOs Ask HR Leaders
September 23 | Steve Arneson, Ph.D., President, Arneson Leadership Consulting | Comments (0)If you’re a senior HR leader, you’re expected to have your finger on the pulse of the organization’s top talent. Yet, I still see competent HR leaders blindsided by talent questions from the CEO. Here are five questions you should anticipate.
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How One Law Firm Maintains Gender Balance
August 28 | Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO, 20-first gender consultancy | Comments (0)No area of the business world is more illogically gender imbalanced than law firms. Law firms who want to hold onto their female recruits can do so – but they need to behave differently.
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Jill Abramson’s Ouster: Why Aren’t Standards This High For Male Leaders?
July 24 | Sarah Green Carmichael, Senior Associate Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)Jill Abramson is out at The New York Times, and the circumstances of her departure have lots of observers feeling all flavors of depressed, angry, and tired. We’ve seen this movie before.
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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs
April 15 | Rajiv Kumar, Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research | Comments (0)A recent HBR blog proposed to deliver “The Cure for the Common Corporate Wellness Program.” But as with any prescription, you really shouldn’t swallow this one unless all your questions about it have been answered.
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A Board’s Unrealistic Hopes Can Derail a CEO Succession
March 27 | Jeffrey Cohn, Partner, Heidrick & Struggles | Comments (0)Whether it’s the world’s largest technology company or a small manufacturer trying find its niche, just about every organization looking for a new chief executive faces the same problem: How do you find a leader who can both innovate and create a culture of disciplined execution?
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CMOs and CIOs Need to Get Along to Make Big Data Work
March 25 | Matt Ariker, Chief Operating Officer, McKinsey's Consumer Marketing Analytics Center | Jesko Perrey, Director, McKinsey & Company | Comments (0)A global telecoms company recently decided to do what many companies are doing: figure out how to turn big data into big profits. They put together a preliminary budget and an RFP that asked vendors to take the data the company had and identify opportunities.
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The Great Leap Generation F Needs to Make
March 17 | Umair Haque, Director, Havas Media Labs | Comments (0)Imagine a towering, sheer cliff. Imagine a deep canyon below, full of ruined cities. Now imagine, on the canyon’s other side, a bountiful plain, rippling in the breeze, stretching into the sunset. Welcome to the economy of the twenty-first century.
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Lessons in Power from the Chris Christie Kerfuffle
March 12 | Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University | Comments (0)There are numerous lessons from the Chris Christie “bridgegate” scandal for people in high-profile leadership roles. Here are a few. First, power comes with a) visibility and b) envy. If you are working at a minimum wage job, few people are going to want to trade places with you.
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Root Out Dysfunction in the Boardroom
February 27 | Ram Charan, D.B.A., Business Author and Advisor | Comments (0)Not all directors perform equally well once inside. Sometimes a prince in other realms can even turn into a petty gabber, the very opposite of what English novelist George Eliot had championed: “Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”