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Mapping Global Talent: Essays and Insights
The Global Talent Index (GTI) is a unique research study done in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit to identify where talent is located in the world today and where it will be located five years from now. |
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Inside the C-Suite
This complete work includes the following individual articles:
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Chief Executives Uncovered
They are the corporate top dogs who run British business, but how much is really known about the chief executives in charge of Britain’s top 100 companies? In an exclusive study, carried out in collaboration with The Daily Telegraph newspaper, we set about finding out… |
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Retention Returns: Insights for More Effective Diversity Initiatives
Results of a survey by the Robert Toigo Foundation and Heidrick & Struggles on retention of talent - specifically professionals of color - in the finance industry. Anyone interested in discussing the survey results or diversity recruiting and retention issues should contact Michelle DeSena or Seema Brin.
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Karen Spinely |
Anneke Luikenaar | |
The Emergence of the Chief Sustainability Officer: From Compliance Manager to Business Partner
Demand for a new kind of environmental, health and sustainability officer as risen dramatically. |
Steve Ingram |
Guy de Buttet | |
Making Outsourcing Work: Moving from Transaction to Partnership
by Steve Ingram, Partner and Guy de Buttet, Partner
Despite the critical importance of outsourcing to the success of a great many businesses today, these arrangements all too frequently fall short of their objectives or end in recrimination and disappointment. Where does your team stand in the grand scheme of outsourcing today — seeking short-term and often elusive advantages, or collaboratively working toward broader business goals and making sure that everyone wins?
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Stephen Miles |
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The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas
by Stephen Miles, Partner, Heidrick & Struggles, and Michael D. Watkins
The authors describe four kinds of complementarity: task, expertise, cognitive, and role.
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Carlos Cata |
Torrey Foster | |
Plan Today to be Tomorrow's CMO
by Carlos Cata and Torrey Foster
Heidrick & Struggles' advice on getting that top job
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Kevin Kelly |
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Roller Coaster Leadership
Time was, becoming a CEO was a promotion for life. Now it's more like having a seat on a roller coaster. Kevin Kelly believes that aspiring CEOs need a new set of skills in order to maximize their tenure.
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Getting Results in China: How's China's Tech Executives are Molding a New Generation of Leaders
This report by Heidrick & Struggles and the Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) at Stanford University, based on intensive interviews with more than 100 leadership of China's high tech industry, captures what leaders of China's most knowledge-intensive industries are actually doing on the ground to build successful enterprises.
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Pravesh Mehra |
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A Comprehensive Talent Strategy for Services Outsourcing
by Pravesh Mehra and Navnit Singh
Savvy outsourcing operations can win the resulting war for talent by pursuing a comprehensive talent management strategy uniquely suited to the demands of these locales and the industry.
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Stuart Sadick |
Jory Marino |
Steve Ingram |
Pravesh Mehra |
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The New Role of the Sourcing Executive - Getting the Outsourcing of Services Right
by Stuart Sadick, Jory Marino, Steve Ingram, and Pravesh Mehra
Today's successful companies source services from all parts of the globe. These companies employ a strategy of right-shoring, or smart-sourcing, to pick off best-of-breed services, often from geographically disparate sources in today's globally connected, wired world. No longer a simple line function, sourcing of services is now an integral part of companies' global strategies and often a major determinant of financial performance, customer service, and market penetration.
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Carlos Cata |
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What it takes to be an A-Level CMO
by Carlos Cata and Bruce Robertson
Fancy yourself indispensable? Be sure you measure up to new standards. |
Stephen Miles |
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Second in Command: The Misunderstood Role of the Chief Operating Officer
by Stephen Miles and Nathan Bennett
Through in-depth conversations with COOs and with CEOS who've worked with COOs, we've gained insight into a subject that has been largely neglected by organizational scholars. Understanding what makes for a successful COO is critical to the fortunes of many companies. |
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Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO
by Stephen Miles and Nathan Bennett
A new book from Heidrick & Struggles that provides a fresh understanding of this little-understood role. |
Pat Friel |
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Protecting Customer Information: Can you afford not to have a Chief Privacy Officer?
by Pat Friel
In the wake of unprecedented thefts of personal information, companies in the transaction processing and information services businesses that have not established the role of Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) should do so before they become the next victims — and perhaps put their reputation and their business at risk. |
Ellie Filler |
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Diversity in Switzerland: Where are we now?
by Ellie Filler, Brigitte Liebig, Marion Fengler-Veith, Kubra Varan
This was a first national survey on diversity and diversity management of the Top 500 organizations in Switzerland. Drawing on the opinions and insights of the senior CEOs and Chief Human Resources Officers, the aim of the study was to capture the current reality and the perceptions of diversity as a business driver in 2005 in Switzerland. |
Gerry Roche |
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Fifty Years of Service Excellence: Heidrick & Struggles Marks a Milestone
by Tom Friel and Gerry Roche, with commentary by the firm's co-founder John Struggles |
Stephen Miles |
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Optimizing Today's Talent Management Strategies
by Judy Klein and Stephen Miles
Our objective appraisal of a company’s management team begins with a consultative review with the client to determine current and future leadership needs based on the strategic goals for the organization. |
Randy Jayne |
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Aligning Compensation with Business Strategy: Getting Out of the Stock Option Morass
by Randy Jayne
We attempt to unwrap the clouds of anger and resentment surrounding the debate over executive stock options. |
Jane Marcus |
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Developing Better Assest Management Leadership
by Jane B. Marcus, Heidrick & Struggles and Terry R. Bacon, Ph.D., Lore International Institute
We interviewed a number of asset management firm executives and asked what their firms were doing in response to changes they have seen in the marketplace and to the allegations, dismissals, and fundamental soulsearching that has rocked the industry in the past year. Among the most important themes emerging from our study was the importance of developing more effective leadership in the industry. |
Mike Speck |
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Succession Planning & Future Leadership in the Media & Entertainment Industry
by Mike Speck
For decades creative executives provided consumers with entertainment content from a small group of Hollywood studios and three television networks. Now, as distributors, cable networks, telcos, and technology companies enter the entertainment sector as full participants, what are the implications for locating and retaining experienced leaders, given the limited supply of talent?
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How to Select an Executive Search Firm
The selection of an executive search firm can and should be approached with the same discernment and rigor as the selection of the candidates who ultimately fill the role.
A Guide for Leadership Success
Breaking Through to Senior Management
A look ahead at the Executive Job Market
The Art of Being Mentored
Talking Leadership with Ray Lane
Building the Momentum for Change
The Toughest Audience? Your Own Senior Management
What direction whould your stock options move? Up-always up
When the world is your campus
Perspectives on Leadership and the Talent Landscape
Is English Enough? Foreign language skills can open doors |