Ask Atma

MAY 3, 2011

For example say you have an idea for an application/production that will cost $1000 and take two weeks. This of course is an extreme simplification, but the idea is missing from many project management cycles. But this rigorous honesty is the first discipline of the Theater of Constraints. But you only have $500 and one week.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

With billions of dollars poised to change hands and the spotlight on, Nasdaq managers scrambled to diagnose the problem, dialing into an emergency conference call to troubleshoot. Despite the check’s warning that something was amiss, managers decided to push forward anyway. But when 11:05 arrived, nothing happened.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

This doesn’t just mean men and women who run large global enterprises, Fortune 500 behemoths, film studios, and media platforms. And the legal and punitive costs of sexual harassment cases can feel steeper to a firm with less money and fewer resources. The conversation is happening in small businesses as well. In the U.S.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Cross-disciplinary training: On a regular basis have members of different departments lead instructional discussions on their particular specialty. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. My own work brings together all these disciplines together in a management 3.0

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure. ” Metric obsession. In the sense that results count, and their quantification is desirable, it seems irrefutable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. Besides, it's cheaper for the superannuated set to move to India than retire in high-cost zones like the U.K. and the U.S. They find new life instead of old age.

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Outsourcing Film Hotels Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Beyond the devastating and saddening human costs, the earthquake in Japan is another reminder of the complexity of the world's supply chains and the great interdependencies in global production systems. The world's supply chains are complex and highly optimized to deliver products efficiently at the lowest cost.

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Supply Chain Film Globalization Uncertainty 14

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. Unusually excellent leaders deliberately create high-risk, low-cost environments – a.k.a. No wasted film, slides, or prints. They’ll never risk anything again.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In the last week, film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment — which many have described as an open secret in Hollywood — have exploded onto the pages of the New York Times. Second, they show genuine understanding of the cost of inequality for everyone (not to mention the organizational bottom line).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

Long before its current crises , tech gained a reputation for elitism, ” brogrammer “ culture, and an overrepresentation of white and East Asian men (albeit with mostly white ones in management.) Often, they do so while subsidizing or otherwise eliminating the up-front costs for students. This is what the St.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In a tight labor market, it’s imperative that a hiring manager understand the immigration issues that affect who they can hire and how. Here’s what we found: F-1 Visa “Optional Practical Training” Who’s eligible? This year of employment is known as “Optional Practical Training” or “OPT.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s. Exploring opportunities to integrate workforce training can help close this gap. Given the rising cost of urban land, real estate markets cannot satisfy this need on their own.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Ticket sales cover just a fraction of its production and administrative costs, with the balance coming from donations, grants and endowment. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. He had been director of product management at Dell Computer before coming to Stanford.

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