Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2016

In my forthcoming book, Simply Brilliant , I study game-changing leaders who have done extraordinary things in pretty ordinary fields, from retail banking to fast-food joints. A grand staircase maneuvers down the center of the seven-story garage, creating the elegant aura of a European train station. Nothing is what you expect.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Music and musicians are mass produced in standardized fashion. We so often hear about the challenges of coping with all these fast-moving factors, it's nice to hear a case study of success. She sees several instructive keys to the ridiculously catchy pop song's success. OURS IS NOT TO EXPLAIN WHY.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > In order to understand how firms have systematically enhanced trust in applied AI, my colleagues Monika Hengstler and Selina Duelli and I conducted nine case studies in the transportation and medical device industries.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

For now, too many companies are still approaching the innovation challenge in a piecemeal fashion, a web-based suggestions box here, an awards program there, and a corporate incubator over there, somewhere. Tackling a problem of this depth and breadth is going to take a lot of help.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

” Yet scaring people into speeding up will only end up backfiring, says Elizabeth Grace Saunders, a time coach and the founder of Real Life E Time Coaching & Training. Getting work done in a timely fashion can be impossible, for instance, if an employee has a steady parade of people coming by his office asking for help or advice.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Lees notes that in some industries, like fashion or technology, it’s more appropriate to say how much you love a company’s product or services. Case study #1: Demonstrate an understanding of what the company needs. We’re a small team and I can’t afford to train someone,” she says. Case study #2: Catch their attention.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

That's why the art of competition is in danger of devolving to little more than a brutish exercise in racing to a bottom already as packed a Tokyo subway train at rush hour. Consider a mini-case study: America. The result: a zero-sum global economic game.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Deliver the news in a timely fashion. Case Study #1: Be honest and direct — and don’t make any promises. ” Case Study #2: Schedule a separate meeting to discuss development and career progression. Discuss your employee’s growth and development plan in a separate meeting.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Long road ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

He then pledged to double the number of business case studies that feature a woman as the protagonist up to a level of 20% over the next five years. But what exactly is the magnitude of the case study inequality problem across all business schools? Women feature as a protagonist in only seven case studies.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Having been trained by one of the best companies in the world on Leadership Development, (GE), in one of the best action learning environments in the world (a high performance culture), I frown on textbook practitioners. When I was going through basic training, my Drill Instructors were all seasoned, experienced, combat veterans.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

The team also had to go through the pangs of training its employees to be strictly coffee experts, conducting “cuppings” (otherwise known as coffee tastings) and product knowledge courses so that “when a neighbour asked them about coffee, they would be able to talk about the origins, the roast, the grind.”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

A small team of analytics professionals (not necessarily data scientists) to develop appropriate analytical tools and techniques and enable the organization to deploy them through internal training and advice. Make generous use of relevant case studies. The result? The first 60-seat course offering filled to capacity.

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