Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Their answer to inequality and stagnant living standards is “inclusive prosperity,” an economic agenda centered around middle-class growth. Inclusive prosperity refers to the idea that growth — growth that is inclusive, that benefits the middle class — is essential if nations are going to flourish.

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Class Outsourcing Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management.

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Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The three new Wall Street programs follow a similar formula to Returnship in terms of timing and small class size. The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model. And last week J.P.

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Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

They belong to a class of small-to-medium German enterprises that are outperforming the country’s top public companies. But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. This success is no blip.

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Industry Long-term Short-term Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

By parallel, managers themselves might similarly benefit from "reverse-engineering" the criticism of not only outsiders but of their own colleagues: considering both parties as their benefactors on the road to greater performance. Most PR firms only offer cosmetic remedies to firefight reputation threats as they arise.

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Engineering PR How To Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. To find out, I like to ask questions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. During the past two decades it has transformed into a provider of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power management solutions. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The general counsel is now a core member of the top management team and offers advice not just on law and related matters but helps shape discussion and debate about business issues. From the company point of view, building up a first-class inside team has two striking benefits.

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Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Waterman’s In Search of Excellence , that praised the unique management structure and corporate culture of computer then-giant Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). When I ask business people to define culture—or even when I ask students in my class on organizational culture to do so—it turns out to be difficult.

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Waterman Company Definition Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

The team, encouraged by senior management, is now working on a pilot of their design. We also believe cooperation is necessary. Will the community have the skills and know-how and means to operate and maintain their houses and the services provided a year, 3 years, 10 years? Think Affordability: This isn't for the middle class.

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Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

A recent study reported that male managers in such marriages found organizations with egalitarian gender attitudes less appealing and were more likely to give women low job evaluations. This mindset, created by the peculiar demography of upper-level management, is increasingly out of sync with most of the workforce.

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Diversity Ethics Report Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture. However, management was not convinced. Still, management remained unconvinced, believing that workers must be directed, tightly managed, and never allowed to set their own pace.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. Ben : Yeah.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A).

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Wise leadership does not fit the strict patterns of smart analysis, but instead taps into an intuitive part of who you are at the core, unearthing counterintuitive principles: Compassion doesn't have to come at the cost of efficiency — it can actually drive systems and operational excellence.

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Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. Ben : Yeah.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Henry Beyer walked up to a Mini Cooper in the city parking lot across the street from his office in downtown Houston. Henry was the senior vice president of operations. I''ve said it before, and I''ll say it again: The best path forward is to keep VillageCar separate — the operations, the branding, everything.".

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Case Study Brand How To Beyer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

More importantly, the IMF predicts strong 4% growth for the region in 2012 and Gulf Cooperation Council countries could set a torrid 7% pace. Over the next decade, the world will add a billion new middle-class consumers in emerging markets, and the MENA region will have 60 million of these new shoppers.

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Class Globalization Survey Cooper 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

But there are also implications for organizational design and talent management for firms of all sizes. The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. And, of course, this affects management's role and how we all manage our careers.

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Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 14

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 17, 2012

The middle-class axiom “study hard and you’ll get a good job” has proven untrue in the recent economic downturn. A good sense of humor, telling a story well and having a good relationship with each student are ‘nice to have’ when teaching students of upper socioeconomic classes, but essential when teaching poverty-level students (1).

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Katz Globalization Class Survey 84

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. The justification for the move, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is the “premium on creating single-purpose, first-class experiences.” The article, by J. Ramachandran, K.S.

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IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. On the front pages of major U.S.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8