UVA Darden

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

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Business Administration 98

Business Administration Administration Education Organizational Change 98

Peter Winick

JUNE 20, 2024

Hybrid publishing allows authors to manage costs and directly benefit from their work. So if you want to work with me the entire time, then yeah, I know a very talented couple of designers and editors and indexers and e-book conversion folks, so we can scale up and scale down as needed. The age of the platform back in 2012.

Marketing 33

Marketing Software Scaling Engineering 33

AIHR

APRIL 8, 2020

One common belief among (HR) managers is that knowledge hiding did not occur in their organizations. Example scenario: Tom and Jill are both account managers at a bank. Example scenario: Rajesh and Regina are management consultants at a large consultancy firm. A 20-item scale on HR attributions by Nishii et al.

Scaling 86

Scaling Banking Implementation Revenue 86

AIHR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Beyond traditional performance management What is human resources (HR)? In a nutshell, human resources is an organization’s critical, strategic function that manages all things employee-related. HR is a business-critical function in an organization because it manages a company’s most important assets – its people.

Human Resources 105

Human Resources Onboarding Retention Diversity 105

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

So what can we expect in 2012 in a world that seems to grow ever connected by the hour? But for the next year, the cult of influence becomes less about consumer plays like Klout and more about the tools and techniques professionals use to "score" digital influence and actually harness, scale and measure the results of it.

Media 22

Media Travel Government Scaling 22

Wendy Hirsch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Ford & Ford, 2012). Changes of any kind of scale, such as those that impact multiple functions or locations, if not an entire enterprise, require some degree of co-leadership. Level: Executive or Middle Manager? In particular, it’s critical to recognize the unique role of middle managers during change. boss vs. team).

Organizational Change 52

Organizational Change Implementation Change Management Scaling 52

Wendy Hirsch

AUGUST 14, 2020

As complexity and scale increase so do the leadership demands of change. It’s true, a single person can lead a change if the scope, scale, and complexity are relatively low. This group may be pre-existing, such as a management team, or a group developed explicitly for the change effort. Harvard Business Review , 91 (7/8), 62-68.

Organizational Change 52

Organizational Change Diversity Scaling Government 52

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. Examples : An Airbnb host buying additional properties to manage.

Retention 111

Retention User Experience Travel Marketing 111

AIHR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A recent Wiley survey noted a significant uptick in the percentage of HR professionals and hiring managers who say they’re facing a skills gap. It identifies the skills that employees need but don’t yet have to carry out their job or perform certain tasks effectively ( Antonucci, Ovidio, 2012 ). Why is a skills gap analysis important?

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Recruitment Accounts Operations 98

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

And launching and scaling these products requires a mastery of “network effects,” one of the most-used but misunderstood jargon terms in the industry. For workplace apps, these are the managers that author and create documents and projects, and who invite coworkers to participate. The other side of the network will follow.

Marketing 95

Marketing Assets Recruitment Operations 95

15Five

MARCH 2, 2017

According to Rand Fishkin , the founder of the successful marketing software company, Moz , “the biggest danger for subscription businesses is to start scaling up effort, money, people and time into marketing and growth before you have high enough retention and a low enough churn rate”. Is Growth Always a Good Thing? Click To Tweet.

Software 56

Software B2B Retention Benchmarking 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? After all, scaling is hard. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 Really hard.

Scaling 15

Scaling Revenue Marketing Media 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Consider, too, that when threats materialize at large-scale events, the damage often spills over to other parties.

Risk Management 16

Risk Management Manager Insurance Government 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Scaling is hard. So I'm highlighting a few companies outside of the Google/Amazon/Facebook pantheon that have built large, sustainable, profitable business models at scale. So I'm highlighting a few companies outside of the Google/Amazon/Facebook pantheon that have built large, sustainable, profitable business models at scale.

Scaling 11

Scaling Travel Engineering Revenue 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

Gallup has found that one of the most important decisions companies make is simply whom they name manager. Bad managers cost businesses billions of dollars each year, and having too many of them can bring down a company. Managers account for at least 70% of variance in employee engagement scores across business units, Gallup estimates.

Manager 15

Manager Employee Engagement Metrics Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

But the female edge in education (63% vs 37%) in Brazil is at the top of the scale, next to Sweden's. In the 2012 Grant Thornton survey of the gender balance in senior executive roles, for example, Brazil had 27% women and 73% men, compared to the US with 17% women and 83% men. percentage points between 2000 and 2010.

Diversity 21

Diversity Scaling Education Manager 21

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. Examples : An Airbnb host buying additional properties to manage.

Retention 48

Retention User Experience Travel Marketing 48

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

For far too long, managing risk has been seen as an esoteric business function — designed to control losses and adhere to compliance standards. Leaders who practice what they preach, have conviction, and lead by example are better at managing risks than those that merely pay lip service to ethics, value systems, or codes of conduct.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Manager Balance Sheet Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

There were five finalists in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The 2012 candidates all had a sophisticated view of the advantages, not only of winning their bids, but also even of simply making a bid. Using London in 2012 as an example, the Opening Ceremony of the Games was fixed for 9:00GMT on July 27, 2012.

Media 15

Media Scaling Travel Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.

Balance Sheet 14

Balance Sheet Manager Assets Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

For a sense of scale, the national ouput of Ireland in 2007 was 155 billion euros. In Spain, really only the scale is different. By March 2012 unemployment was 24.1 Such levels of unemployment will accelerate defaults in the mortgage market; depress growth; and may lead to large-scale social unrest and political turmoil.

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Real Estate Banking Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. 63% of firms reported that they expect to invest greater than $10 million in Big Data by 2017, up from 24% in 2012. 54% of firms say they have appointed a Chief Data Officer, up from 12% in 2012.

Metrics 15

Metrics Implementation Operations Culture Change 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Big data has the potential to revolutionize management. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. Of course, companies such as Google and Amazon are already doing this.

Manager 10

Manager Sales Sales Software 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era. Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees.

Scaling 14

Scaling Engineering Assets Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors.

Software 14

Software User Experience Recruitment Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

As she navigated through spreadsheets and dashboard screens — each created by a different person for a different purpose — the only constant was the title of the report, "2012 Actuals." Everyone from product managers, to call center reps, to the front-line worker in the branch or store uses information to make decisions.

Revenue 15

Revenue Sales Sales Scaling 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

I spoke over the phone with MIT's Andrew McAfee, a regular contributor and principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management. To take the Obama campaign as an example, look at their move from having two databases in 2008 to one in 2012. And then you can do that at scale.

Scaling 18

Scaling Assets Hospitality Implementation 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

Even if your firm has a healthy employee base and a strong balance sheet, chances are good that it’s about to face a significant shortage of qualified managers. The companies we studied in 2007 expected to increase their developing market revenues by 88% through 2012, and that trend has intensified.

Balance Sheet 14

Balance Sheet Retention Recruitment Revenue 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

The nonprofit sector is facing a massive talent shortage , which makes scaling a social enterprise extraordinarily difficult. Indeed, three of Year Up's five senior leaders came to us from the private sector, and their skillsets have been vital to scaling our impact. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

Nonprofit 14

Nonprofit Recruitment Scaling Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

My article in the January-February 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review , Why "Good Jobs" Are Good for Retailers, analyzes how they manage to do this.). It's the low-paid employee, not the inventory-management software, who notices that a shelf looks messy or that some of the products are in the wrong place.

Operations 17

Operations Sales Sales Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Starting in 2012, my colleagues and I began taking a closer look at the hands-on experience of data scientists. Now that companies are dealing with larger and more complex data sets, however, this old way of managing data is impractical. IT management Technology'

Diversity 15

Diversity Workflows Scaling Implementation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

How would you react if you observed a peer, employee, or manager doing so? And mindfulness research is convincing many managers that investing in reflection, openness, and thoughtfulness will have a positive impact on employees and on the bottom line. Intel began offering its Awake@Intel mindfulness program in 2012.

Scaling 15

Scaling Benefits Implementation Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. Generating fast, demonstrable growth of local firms is fundamental for scaling up any regional economy. strategic hires).

Scaling 12

Scaling Banking Balance Sheet Sales 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training.

Leadership Development 15

Leadership Development Scaling Operations Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures.

Engineering 15

Engineering Government Scaling Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Reading HBR's List of Audacious Ideas is the perfect way to start 2012. Aravind executed many of the best practices from world class manufacturing companies: standardization, specialization or labor, economies of scale, and assembly line production. Which manager typically ends up getting it? The new reality is austerity.

Hospitality 14

Hospitality Transportation Travel Government 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Harman created a scaled-down version of its high-end system which proved a dismal failure in poor countries. In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic.

Engineering 15

Engineering Transportation Marketing Scaling 15