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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K., As of October 31st, 2021, a mere 810 firms had enrolled, a long way off from the goal of 30,000 participants. and France.

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How Do Non-Compete Clauses Change Employee Behavior?

The Horizons Tracker

Interestingly, after crunching the data, it transpired that the first condition was actually evident, with employees at 200 fund managers between 1992 and 2004 showing an increase in productivity when NCC enforcement rose. Productivity boon. “Once again, they do all of this because they were concerned,” the authors explain.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels.

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Why Every Startup Should Bootstrap

Harvard Business Review

As financing dries up, entrepreneurs would do well to remember the benefits of bootstrapping. In 2004, I attended my first trade show. But building a profitable, sustainable business is still really hard. Public and private markets alike are starting to remember this, correcting for years of overly exuberant startup funding.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. exports increased by only 11%.

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A Female-Dominated Workplace Won't Fix Everything

Harvard Business Review

Rather than stigmatize the characteristic emotional biologies of one gender or the other, it should be the goal of any person or organization to allow all emotion at work, in all of its gendered nuances, its full due. A too-reductive men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-venus perspective serves no one.

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Tough Dilemmas for Companies on Campaign Spending

Harvard Business Review

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. Should we support generally moderate candidates who can compromise on major structural issues facing the U.S.,

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