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When Treating Workers Well Leads to More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

There’s a reason companies like Google and Facebook offer their employees so many perks, according to new research: firms that treat workers better are more innovative. This is not the first paper to connect the interests of workers with innovation. and abroad on innovation. It looked at U.S.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

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Drive Engagement and Retention Using Social Platforms

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, having witnessed the advent of social media, my colleagues and I saw a new way to support the connections and self-management skills that course cultivates. Any system has the potential to serve people better if you are willing to measure, follow up, adapt, and innovate. The Social Solution to Innovation Challenges.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Although most people do not have the personal magnetism of an Oussama Bin-Laden or a Martin Luther King, there is a subset of people who can engender a strong sense of loyalty in others. Trust is a common factor in the cost-benefits analysis, compliance with authority, or loyalty to leaders hypotheses.

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What "Not To Do" while you grow your blogging empire | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Demonstrating Fake loyalty You can read a blog for a long time and reach out to a blogger OR you can read a blog post and reach out to a blogger and say that you have been reading the blog for a LONG time. The second one is fake loyalty. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

billion leveraged private equity buyout in 2005, with the aim of turning the chain around, but the resulting debt has proved to be unserviceable. In their 2005 book, W. The recent bankruptcy filing at Toys “R” Us has roiled the toy industry. Yet the struggles at the company are not new. The firm was taken private in a $6.6

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.