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Case Study: When Should A Rising Star Make Her Pregnancy Public?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. Anything for you?"

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Ask for case studies which were directly supervised by the person who will handle your training.not stock narratives from affiliate offices or a supervisor. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Understand what your company really needs and why.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

“If someone is draining you, build yourself up by exercising, eating right, sleeping, and taking breaks, both short-term ones and vacations,” she says. Case Study #1: Give direct feedback and support the rest of the team. Case Study #2: Help him rebuild his reputation.

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Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly

Harvard Business Review

Without a purposeful plan, Davey says that “managers too often do what’s easy in the short-term and ask the most talented person” to do the hard work. Case Study #1: Create a culture where team members help each other and collaborate. “I knew her work ethic,” he says.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. Ask for case studies which were directly supervised by the person who will handle your business… not stock narratives from affiliate offices or a supervisor.

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Reimagining Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

That's why the MIX is eager to announce the third leg of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Innovation — the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. With this challenge, we hope to accelerate the shift toward a more principled, patient, and socially accountable capitalism — one that's truly fit for the long term.

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The Big Picture of Business: Leadership for the New Order of Business Part 1

Strategy Driven

‘Long Day, Short Night’ by The Shirelles, Dionne Warwick and Dawn Penn. The case studies become the substance of what we provide future clients. We benefit from going back and learning from our own early Body of Work, assuming that we strategized our career to be a long-term thing, as Burt Bacharach did.