Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2014

It’s a mindset you have to operate from in order to become not just a good negotiator, but a great one. They can be modified if you simply propose an ethical, viable and mutually beneficial alternative solution. Thinking something is non-negotiable. When you think like a negotiator, everything is negotiable! Get personal.

Short-term 67

Short-term Document Ethics Competitive Advantage 67

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. The movement is not operating from a standing start however, as there has already been some fascinating work done to explore how humans interact with industrial robots.

Bond 64

Bond Technology Engineering Constraint 64

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Ask a true business strategist to help you to determine which consultants are needed, draft the requests for proposals, evaluate credentials and recommend contracting options. 17 percent).

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.” They understand the power of reputation and relationships.

Ethics 17

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. In one study, we asked 164 MBA students to read a hypothetical scenario (based on a true story) about an investment banker facing an ethical dilemma, and to estimate the likelihood that this banker would indulge in unethical behavior.

Ethics 15

Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

We have a proposal for a good place to start: auditing. That’s because — like algorithms — companies’ internal operations appear as “black boxes” to those on the outside. Requiring managers to report periodically on their operations provides a check on that advantage.

Ethics 15

Ethics Report System Sample 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? For example, I've proposed redesigning the economy around the idea of a national balance sheet, which redefines profit and wealth to matter in human terms. Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf?

Price 17

Price Short-term Proposal System 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

But at the same time, they seem to operate by a set of hidden principles designed to prevent innovations from surfacing or succeeding. Get groups to critique and challenge each other's proposals, preferably in public forums, and then declare winters and losers. They say they want more innovation. Stress predictability above all.

Innovation 15

Innovation Stress Proposal Ethics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

He offers an example of how to present this: “Our normal expected return in a particular region is 18-24 months, and we believe that is attainable, but we’re projecting 24-36 months to achieve those objectives in a way that is sustainable and ethical.” ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

Management 14

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? Directors in turn need to monitor the company’s operational heartbeat closely so they can make informed decisions about when to play it safe and when to dare to deviate.

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

You likely studied the proposed change in detail, discussed it at length with relevant colleagues, came up with a strategy for implementing it, and then introduced it. Articulate what exactly your proposed change will involve. Change management Human resources Operations'

Flextime 14

Flextime Call Center Human Resources CRM 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. Google's Sergey Brin knows a multibillion investment opportunity when he sees one.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

That's because there are deep and fundamental conflicts between innovation and day-to-day operations—and established organizations are built more for the latter than the former. Better, then, the authors argue, to work underground until you have a more defensible proposal. You beg, borrow, and steal, the authors advise.

Innovation 10

Innovation Proposal Article Sports 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Paul Garbett for HBR. Imagine you’re the CEO of a casual dining chain. Our research.

Company 10

Company Short-term Long-term Price 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Leaders rate the importance of maintaining a sterling reputation in the countries in which they operate 10 times higher than do laggards — the greatest variance we found. Local subsidiaries have to operate in ways acceptable to the parent company. Forgoing Short-Term Profits in Favor of Long-Term Reputation.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Efficient operations that inflict misery on food animals. I sent them the proposal they requested. But I knew I’d feel that way even before I sent the proposal, and I’d sent it anyway. I feel embarrassed that I submitted the proposal. I teach a course in strategic controls at the University of Portland.

Tavris 8

Tavris Proposal Industry Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In 1971, philosopher John Rawls proposed a thought experiment to understand the idea of fairness: the veil of ignorance. The field of AI ethics draws an interdisciplinary group of lawyers, philosophers, social scientists, programmers, and others. Laurence Dutton/Getty Images. Our tool does not simply dictate what is fair.

Credit Risk 8

Credit Risk Tools Objective Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. From the beginning, self-driving vehicles have proven to be better drivers than most human operators, since software is able to learn as it goes. traffic deaths.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Policies Finance Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Whether you are working in a large corporation with a presence in all the major markets or you're an owner operator with a single website, it is likely that your communications will reach people from a wide variety of cultural origins. If you are in business, then you are in a global business.

Advertising 15

Advertising Audience Banking Influence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Next point?”.

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Transformative change requires an organization to change not only how it operates but, even more importantly, how people think. After a good discussion, he promised to provide us greater support and proposed that he fire our most virulent critics unless they changed. So, operational day-to-day work drives out strategic work.

Ulrich 52

Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The first four buckets roughly correspond to key steps in the data science hierarchy of needs, as recently proposed by Monica Rogati. Although it has not yet been formally incorporated into data science workflows, I have added data ethics as the fifth key concept because ethics needs to be part of any conversation about data.

Ethics 14

Ethics Article Analysis Objective 14