Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The machine ran continuously with eight various machine managers & operators. Each machine manager & operator was responsible for only their area of the machine and its operation. During a scheduled machine maintenance different machine managers decided to work with their operators on improvements.

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Case Study System Team Proposal 146

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

He was the head of operations at Parivar, a midsize Chennai-based IT services company. Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. A whole group of managers dedicated to walking around and asking about our problems?

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Case Study Cost Proposal Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. My grandfather ran the exports, while my great-uncle managed the palm plantation. My father would put more professional managers in key positions.

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She knew that Wayne had moved up from North Carolina to manage the facility. The previous year it had operated at a loss of $1.7 So what exactly is it known for?"

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Case Study Retail Transportation Niche Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

” Your interpersonal relationships with insecure employees also tend to be more complicated, says Mary Shapiro, a professor at Simmons College School of Management and the author of HBR Guide to Leading Teams. Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. Clarify expectations.

Management 12

Management How To McCombs Project 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. We call this measure the ‘coherence premium.’

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

The M-Prize's overall goal is to "surface the world's most progressive management practices and most provocative management ideas" and connect and celebrate individuals reinventing management. Portfolio management. How do you design, assess, and manage an innovation portfolio on an ongoing basis?

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Case Study Uncertainty McKinsey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It's great to see students get their shoes dusty with real-world forays, but I fear they are losing the ability to read a balance sheet or parse the kind of complex data they'd get in case-study coursework. What doesn't seem to count is experience in studying or, better yet, managing organizations in complex situations.

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Education Organizational Behavior Case Study Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

Do your research by talking with the people you’re trying to win over, and others in the know, well in advance of making your proposal. Edinger suggests enlisting “a trusted peer or manager” to “role-play” so you can “see what works and what doesn’t.” ” says Edinger.

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Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

You should first speak to your manager since it’s best if this discussion is “instigated by leadership,” Burkus says. ” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus. Align team expectations. Can you help?”

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Open-book Conference Brainstorming Public Relations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Your boss proposes a new initiative you think won’t work. What is the idea, opinion, or proposal that you’re disagreeing with? Case Study #1: Show respect for the idea. Victor looked his boss in the eye, spoke in a “smooth, casual tone,” and asked Patrick to keep an open mind about the proposal.

Power 8

Power How To Proposal Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references. In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. What happened?

Process 14

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? Your new manager likely has a lot on her plate, so take responsibility for establishing a great working relationship from the start. But it was so sensitive to me, so emotionally intelligent to me as the new manager.”

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How To Chief Technology Officer Case Study Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Have you ever wondered if a person's childhood experiences influence the way they operate as a professional later in life? They may react negatively to consensus building on the job and gravitate towards leaders who operate independently and exude an aura of confidence.

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Power Advertising System Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

“There are so many factors to consider, says Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor at INSEAD and the author of “ Talent Management and the Two Career Couple.” ” But if you’re asked to “head up operations in Denver or Cleveland,” the calculation is a little trickier.

How To 8

How To Long-term Short-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology.

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Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. For two years the subsidiary had recorded revenue from the proposed € 650 million mega-resort.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. This included a call for action — “Act Today, Shape Tomorrow” — that was backed by Coty’s senior management.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” Jeff Weiss, a partner at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in corporate negotiations and relationship management, and author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating , agrees. “Introduce yourself, and take a little time to get to know people, how they operate, and how they act.” Make small talk.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” The key to successfully dealing with interrupters is to quash your frustration and instead “operate from a mindset of curiosity,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. Send out a proposed agenda ahead of time and ask your team for input.

How To 8

How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing Proposal 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2016

Transforming a sales organization to consistently deliver insights requires new value propositions, case studies and collateral from Marketing, new competencies, skill development, recruiting profiles from HR, and alignment with Operations to refine products and services. What are the Key ‘Transformational’ Levers to Pull?

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Metrics Marketing Strategy Case Study 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

Very few organizations have “a standard operating procedure” for employees taking parental time off, says Joan C. You want to start thinking about how you will manage your leave — how much time you will take, whether you’ll be in contact, how you will transition back ­— well in advance.

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Planning Quinn Project Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." Please just look at my proposal.". "Of Welcome, welcome." Palma Cay's first month," he said.

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The manager of the frozen-vegetables plant was pushing him to make the leap. Wait—didn’t you have a solar proposal to show us, Pete?” The Meeting.

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Case Study Parcell Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The manager’s answer: “I don’t want to be a Chicken Little about this.” ” Instead, she said, “their proposal was to build another factory to make window washer motors.” Repeated requests for photos and data of the shuttle to discern any problems that might occur during reentry were dismissed.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 99.99999 percent of actual management consultants come from five basic career orientations and fit onto one of the five branches of The Business Tree : Technical or niche industry orientation.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

A colleague who doesn’t listen can also “have very negative consequences from an operational standpoint — there are often a lot of mistakes because projects don’t get executed correctly.” Propose a social contract. If upper management isn’t on board, it’s going to fall apart.

How To 14

How To Follow-up Norton Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Consider where you went wrong in your last search and don’t be afraid to ask hard questions of prospective employers — questions like what success looks like at the company and how managers handle challenges. Case study #1: Proactively build your skills. Her manager was often inaccessible and the work felt repetitive and dull.

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Short-term Career Long-term Case Study 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Teaching by Heart summarizes the author’s key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. From doctors to teachers to managers to presidents, the more experience the better.

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Books Leadership Simon Learning-by-Doing 449

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs?

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2017

For example, a surgeon in the hospital operating room could view an X-ray you had taken at an urgent care center. In our white paper, “A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare,” we proposed a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs using blockchain technology, which we called MedRec.

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Health Care Decentralization White Paper Technology 8