Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The Bay Area’s congestion is a daily headache for many even when the BART trains are all operating, and thus made all the more miserable – and costly – with much of the rail system idled. In 2009, for example, there were only five large strikes in the United States. It keeps production humming and passengers moving.

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Class Human Resources Operations Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

When Gitanjali Gems set up its diamond-cutting, polishing and jewellery making unit in its 176 acre campus outside Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in southern India, it faced a major human resources challenge. The work of polishing tiny diamonds was intricate, requiring great concentration, and dropouts meant spiralling production costs.

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Company Crisis Attrition Public Relations 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. You will have created a culture conducive to collaboration, greater employee engagement and enhanced productivity. 5) Operational Transparency -.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

For example, Henry and Cantrell conducted a workshop to examine the need for process improvement at a major Houston-based hospital to avoid unnecessary downtime in the main operating rooms They use many advanced facilitation techniques, with the simple tools of cards, like index cards, and a "sticky wall" (actually sticky paper mounted on the wall).

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Participative Learning-by-Doing Operations Process 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Lacking a product or service that inspires, Essendant , a distributer of office and industrial supplies, made its selfless purpose to help their partners succeed. It must be lived by top management as exemplified in their behavior and in the design of their management and human resource policies and practices.

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Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. Lehman Brothers toppled. They are technology-savvy fintech shops.

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Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” How refreshing.

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Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011. Insight Center.

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Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Internal innovation presents a number of challenges, including but not limited to the inherent risk of promoting new ideas; complacency and attachment to the status quo; and the actual amount of capable people with the time to effectively build new ideas into workable products.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This infographic from the Wall Street Journal captured the typical work week of a Chief Executive Officer in November of 2009. One day a year, I worked in various jobs within our coffee roasting operation, side-by-side with union employees. Nonetheless, I suspect meetings at 18 hours a week isn’t a declining trend.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Business Model Competitive Advantage 207

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

As a result, some larger health systems’ physician operations are generating nine-figure operating losses, which are major contributors to the deterioration in hospital earnings. Then, beginning in 2009, the Obama administration’s policies increased the exodus of physicians from private practices to health systems.

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Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8