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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

A 2003 study, Dr. Conte co-wrote in the journal Human Performance examined 181 subway operators in New York City. He documented that finding in a 2001 study he co-wrote in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology that included 194 college students. Source: The Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2015. Source: Lisa Bernstein.

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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

corporations from 1985 to 2015. This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001. ” The thinking on diversification later changed, turning into skepticism in the 1970s and outright criticism in the 1980s. firms, and put the brakes on diversification.

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How AI Helped One Retailer Reach New Customers

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. By 2015, RedBalloon was delivering more than four million customers to businesses across Australia and New Zealand that offered “experiences.” Internet Explorer was the leading Internet browser and Google AdWords had only just recently launched. Not Albert.

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The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

recessions (1991, 2001, 2007–09) have been jobless, meaning that employment was slow to rebound despite recovery in total economic output. Moreover, the vast majority of this “upskilling” persists through the end of our sample in 2015. production and operatives). The recoveries from the last three U.S.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.)

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate. ” After mulling it over for a week, Bayard agreed to hire Teddy as an operations coordinator in the rapidly growing startup. . “I had to get a master’s degree in real estate development. ”

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Indeed, the gap between firms in the top 10% by productivity and those in the bottom 10% increased by approximately 14% from 2001 to 2012. The pay gap between the top- and bottom-paying firms in the same sector has increased by more than 12% from 2001 to 2012. ” How Trade and IT Fit In.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them. .”

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Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

The fraction of global manufacturing done in Asia (measured by value added) jumped from 29% in 2000 to 45% in 2015. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. There are three reasons a rethink is due: East Asia’s shrinking cost advantage. Take the idea of a U.S. Census Bureau data.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

but the latter’s volume of exports is so much larger that the bilateral trade deficit has risen by roughly 50% since 2009 and stood at $366 billion in 2015. Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S.

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How AI Helped One Retailer Reach New Customers

The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want

As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

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