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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics.

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Nearly Half of Companies Say They Don’t Have the Digital Skills They Need

Harvard Business

In PwC’s 2017 Global Digital IQ Survey, 52% rated their digital IQ as strong. Jump ahead to 2017, and that same metric is just 18%. Unfortunately, for many companies, that’s exactly the situation they find themselves in. On a global basis, companies are losing faith in their digital smarts. Insight Center.

Company 134
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Why Marketing Analytics Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise

Harvard Business

Based on our work with member companies at the Marketing Science Institute, two competing forces explain this discrepancy—the data used in analytics and the analyst talent producing it. of marketing leaders reported that their companies have the right talent to leverage marketing analytics. and 2017 (Mean 3.7,

Marketing 133
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New Research Shows How Employees Feel When Their Requests for Raises Are Denied

Harvard Business

We surveyed more than 160,000 workers between November 2017 and April 2018 as part of our PayScale Raise Anatomy study , which resulted in two major findings. ” Instead of relying heavily on performance metrics, ensure that every raise request prompts a look at market data for the given position.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

Doug embraced this idea and, in turn, explained how his company was using metrics and working group meetings to compel tangible advances in each inspection area. Dan scheduled a preliminary inspection for each commodity shop on a different day so it would be easier to identify problems in finer detail. But it was not a zero-sum situation.

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When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees — and When They Shouldn’t

Harvard Business

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. ” She believed her training solution had strategic relevance because it linked to a vital employee metric. Photodisc/Getty Images. According to one industry report , U.S.

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A Study Used Sensors to Show That Men and Women Are Treated Differently at Work

Harvard Business

The metric we used for this is called weighted centrality. According to McKinsey and LeanIn.org’s 2017 gender report, women with a partner are 5.5 We found that the amount of direct interaction with management was identical between genders and that women were just as central as men in the workplace’s social network.

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