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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

Vincent Barabba presented the 2016 ASA Deming Lecture: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective. Vincent Barabba led the US Census Bureau, founded Market Insight Corporation and authored The Decision Loom: A design or interactive decision-making in organizations (among other books). 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff. The Salvation Army’s Pathway of Hope adopted a case-management approach, proven effective in social work, to help families identify barriers to escaping poverty, whether inadequate housing, unemployment, or lack of education.

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Brazil's Women Shun the Private Sector

Harvard Business Review

Brazil's metamorphosis into the world's sixth largest economy has introduced a vast array of educational and professional opportunities inconceivable a generation ago. In fact, the CWLP survey shows that 80% of college-educated women aspire to a top job — more than in China and Russia and far outstripping their U.S. and the U.S.

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Women on Boards: America Is Falling Behind

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41 percent in terms of return on equity and by 56 percent in terms of operating results. As of 2010, women held just 15.7

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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

Using BoardEx data provided by the Center for Corporate Performance, we examined a sample of 1,212 CEOs who led S&P 1500 firms between 2000 and 2010. The restriction on graduation year and degree is to maximize the probability that the individuals met as a result of shared education.

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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second — 100 times faster than average speeds at the time. As it turned out, providers blew past that milestone as early as 2016. PM Images/Getty Images.