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Why You Should Tell Your Team to Take a Break and Go Outside

Harvard Business Review

Leaders participate in mindfulness and compassion trainings and are coached to learn emotional intelligence. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive. To this end, workplaces are adding health-related perks from exercise rooms to yoga classes.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Having taught at five business schools over several decades and served as Dean of two, I have come to a conclusion: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be recalibrated and transformed dramatically. There have been many proposals for change and experiments in redesign in the past few years.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Having taught at five business schools and served as Dean of two, I have come to hold one opinion very strongly: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be transformed, and transformed dramatically. There have been many proposals for change and experiments in redesign in the past few years.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

These areas are similar to the ones proposed by the new ISO 9001 standard, or the Malcolm Baldrige National Award, but these tend not to provide or suggest tools, but to provide a framework to evaluate performance, and assess where improvements or innovation are most needed. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. Hernan Botbol, CEO Taringa.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates. What Could Change?