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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. I believe that if you want to build and sustain a truly world-class team, everyone needs a voice – but not everyone’s voice is equal. I have been directing high-performance team workshops for nearly 15 years and I am in complete agreement with you Mike.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

And when managers need to boost morale and get people to work better together, they still follow Mayo’s “soft” approach — launching people initiatives such as off-site retreats, affiliation events or even lunchtime yoga classes. With “Smart Simplicity,” we put the cooperating individual at the heart of the modern organization.

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Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

These truck drivers, misclassified as independent owner-operators, were forced by companies whom they worked to purchase new vehicles to comply with more stringent emission restrictions. This involved information sharing, training, and in some cases cooperative investigations focused on the misclassification problem.

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

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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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. The 300,000 companies in the association’s data set have more than doubled their profits from operations over the past 13 years, outpacing their corporate counterparts in the country.

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Industry Long-term Short-term Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

It requires nothing more than data and hard work and Walmart is already ahead in the data game: having amassed the world's largest retail database that also contains millions of observations on its internal operations. Extending the above strategy to also reduce operational threats and improve efficiency across the board is one of them.

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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. Cyber security involves legal issues, human resources practices and policies, operational configurations, and technical expertise. The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security. To find out, I like to ask questions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Eaton’s acquisitions of Westinghouse’s distribution & control business (1994), Aeroquip-Vickers (1999), and Cooper (2012), increased revenues by roughly one-third with each addition. Their business should not be labeled a “cash cow” or a “problem,” and their staff must not feel second-class.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

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. And, of course, many of the people who operate inside a group do not actually share the values espoused as belonging to the organizational culture.

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Waterman Company Definition Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

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. How will they pay for it?

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Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

From the company point of view, building up a first-class inside team has two striking benefits. These lawyers operate seamlessly in business teams, gaining credibility by helping more swiftly to achieve performance goals and by assisting business leaders promote high integrity down the line inside the corporation.

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Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Statements like that of the Silicon Valley engineer who expressed resentment at his manager’s demands by saying, “[he] doesn’t have two kids and a wife, he has people that live in his house, that’s basically what he has,” as reported by Marianne Cooper, are increasingly common among younger men. It’s me, me, me, me, me.”.

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Diversity Ethics Report Engineering 11

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture. When Avon Products decided they wanted to create a world-class help desk for their agents, they compared themselves to a company known for its superior service: the Four Seasons Hotel.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 9

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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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

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. I just finished teaching my 50th class. Larry : For Gonzaga.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

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. I just finished teaching my 50th class. Larry : For Gonzaga.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

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. Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas.

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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 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. A construct of circles rather than hierarchies allows an organization to tap into the so-called " freelance nation ," the global talent pool of the creative class. Customer satisfaction didn't decline.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” However, there are other ways for Chinese authorities to take reprisals against Western multinationals operating in China should they so choose. It would undercut the high-ground that Beijing has occupied as self-appointed defender of “the rules-based international order.” Vietnam straddles the two. or European brand.

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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.” Jack Ma would no doubt agree.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. In a Harvard Business School survey of 2,700 alumni, two-thirds of them thought that addressing rising inequality, middle-class stagnation, rising poverty, or limited economic mobility was a higher priority for the U.S.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Since humans began cooperating, and also began failing to, there have been, among the under-appreciated drivers of human misery, the three Rs of payback: retaliation, redirected aggression, and revenge. A reputation for effective retaliation may well reduce the likelihood that a victim will be similarly targeted in the future.

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