Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It looked like a stuffed animal — a cartoonish plush bird with a beetling brow and goofy eyes — but it contained a microphone, tiny speaker, headphone jack, computer chip, and enough speech-recognition and voice-generation technology to engage in sassy banter in Mandarin. But the Brrrd's heyday had come and gone.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “Matt’s reports show huge jumps in productivity. They met that afternoon in a fourth-floor conference room that looked out on the city.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

  The show is a beautiful blend of reality television and business case study that gives you a front row seat as Jack and Suzy guide executive teams to solutions to the challenges they are facing. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.   Let us not forget Suzy Welch either.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Blogger Jason Kottke reported last month on Kuwait''s "booming Instagram economy," where anyone with an Instagram account is simply putting a price tag on an item, taking a photograph, and selling it via the photo sharing online social network.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

As the HBS case study on Yelp details, the company’s early success was based in part on the creation of the “Elite Squad,” a user group in the “low thousands” whose active participation was rewarded by invitation to parties in their cities. Similarly, Wikipedia hosts meetups around the world, along with an annual conference.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

The marketing head of an ambitious technology firm recently shared with me a vexing problem: Apple was one of their customers. You can also create awards that come from your company, and award the winners in front of their peers at your annual customer conference. But the executive and her team could essentially tell no one.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

” The New York Times Magazine recently reported a longform story to answer the question, “Can an algorithm tell when kids are in danger?” ” It turns out the answer is “yes,” and that algorithms can perform this task much more accurately than humans. So what’s going on here?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

“The manager might ask the person who’s leaving to write a [report] to share his knowledge, but often there’s just not enough time for that,” says John Sullivan, professor of management at San Francisco State University, HR expert, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. “We learn by doing.”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Great communicators can tailor a message such that they can speak to 10 people in a conference room or 1,000 people in an auditorium and have them feel as if you were speaking directly to each one of them as an individual. Speak to groups as individuals : Leaders don’t always have the luxury of speaking to individuals in an intimate setting.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

“If your direct report knows you’re there every six months, it helps build trust.” “Join in on a conference call to the home office so you can get a glimpse of [the situation] from their perspective,” Mortensen says. .” Encourage your direct reports to do the same with their remote colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

You can build one even before you leave your job by attending relevant conferences, reaching out to people through LinkedIn or Twitter, or joining a group of freelancers or small business owners in your area. Case Study #1: A vague plan is better than no plan. ” Case study #2: Your network is bigger than you think.

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