Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

In any case, you don’t need outside investors till your experiments are somewhat mature. Here are a couple of interesting case studies: The Israeli company Perfecto Mobile is thriving in Boston. We also have examples of companies thriving in Arizona and Chennai … and many other places. Costs are low.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. Few CEOs I know have operations-focused thinking styles or backgrounds. But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Based on numerous case studies and in-depth research in four sectors (consumer packaged goods, consumer finance, professional services, and advanced manufacturing), McKinsey Global Institute analyzed the potential value that could be obtained through the use of social technologies. trillion annually.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

More often than not “this is one transaction of many,” and there will be opportunities in the future to retry your case. Sure, you may not have gotten the price you wanted, for example, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the customer thinks you’re a pushover. Case Study #1: Acknowledge your missteps.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. What made their ascent possible?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

Set the example. For example, “if you send [someone] an assignment on Friday afternoon, be clear whether you want him to be working on it over the weekend or if it can wait till Monday. Case Study #1: Create open lines of communication and respect your team’s downtime. ” Seek help.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Heres a simple but compelling example. Heres a simple but compelling example. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. Often, judgment must be exercised jointly by multiple parties who may not even recognize themselves as being on the same team or part of the same enterprise.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. Develop your Expertise Daily ​ Becoming a true expert in any field doesn’t come overnight, it takes months and sometimes even years of consistent study and practice.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

How could she or any of the other directors provide fiscal oversight without access to details of the company’s operations or accounting? Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Some months back, J.P. Betsy asked.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Still, there’s the example of great leaders for those who have “ears to hear&#.Ron The beautiful thing about your story is it makes for a wonderful case study. There is much to be learned from looking back in time to the great examples set by histories great leaders. Sadly this is no isolated example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, Blue Apron rose to become the largest meal kit delivery business in the U.S., Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature. Case Study: Blue Apron.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

For instance, that piece of operations data that you remember clearly, since you prepped and presented it to your team, has a flatter downward curve (you'll remember longer) than that the now hazy sales figure a colleague mentioned during the same team meeting. See the accompany chart for examples of cases where you could use SRS.)

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Ford’s success with social media is well documentd in numerous case studies, and can largely be attributed to Scott’s efforts. Get outside of yourself and lead by example. Not that Scott needs me to come to his defense, but he is a professional in the truest sense of the word. Publicly give of your time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Bans on smoking in public areas were a perfect example, he said: Many of them went into effect before the dangers of secondhand smoke had been proved. Ethics Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. billion, compared to just $1.2 billion in 2013.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

One such example was a young man who was on my team with a Ph. When I asked him to do research for me on case studies that proved our concepts in a practical manner, he brought me a textbook and asked me to "define" what I meant by practical, as he was looking up terms I was using and couldn't find them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In Chicago , for example, predictive analytics is improving health inspections schedules in restaurants, while in Boston city officials are collaborating with Waze, the traffic navigation app company, combining its data with inputs from street cameras and sensors to improve road conditions across the city. trillion by 2020, and $3.5

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