Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But not at IBM. people already had that experience.

Globalization 17

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We've seen success with a novel approach to talent engagement: an integrated HR-Marketing strategy that teams Marketing's brand messaging savvy with HR's internal perspective and expertise. The partnership brings added value to Marketing as well.

Marketing 10

Marketing Brand Benchmarking Marketing Strategy 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

IPO 14

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

.” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. They are not employees; they are contingent workers who are nonetheless vital to an organization’s R&D, marketing, and other key processes.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. That’s changing. Uber is another example.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Strategy Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. The successes of the collaboratives have been reported in the Wall Street Journal , the book Pursuing the Triple Aim , and a Harvard Business Review article that explains how other employers can replicate these efforts in their local markets.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

2 (2005): 447–504. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.” Learn more about your market value. 5827 (2007): 1036–1039. Be a guest speaker at a local or national event. Start a blog.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. This is not even a marketing partnership. As Rob Clarke, head of Human Resources for London 2012, said, "We hope a legacy of our Games will be to create a more sustainable model for hosting the Games." The brief has been challenging since the start.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

In 2005, after years of negative publicity, Nike published its list of suppliers and toughened its compliance policy, requiring subcontractors to comply with the Atlanta Agreement on child labor, international conventions on freedom to unionize, and local labor laws. (Enforcement of minimum wage law in Sialkot is not robust.).

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. Market focus. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Thanks to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, specialties such as cardiology, orthopedics, and medical oncology that relied on the revenue that imaging generated were hit hard. A third apparent motivation was to corner the local physician market in order to obtain more favorable rates from health insurers.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8