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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

For example, most in the art world agreed that sculptor Janet Echelman's "Water Sky Garden," created for the speed-skating site at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, was decidedly different. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard." Of course, by itself, sheer novelty doesn't make something creative.

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How Women Are Faring at Business Schools Worldwide

Harvard Business Review

Our Gender Balance Scorecard on Business Schools , the first scorecard we’ve done for B-schools , gives an overview of the top 100 schools (Financial Times ranking, 2015). It also takes an in-depth look at the top 12 business schools and how they have evolved since 2010. Female faculty are in even shorter supply.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. In 2010, the government of Malaysia launched the third wave of its National Blue Ocean Strategy. Second, management matters.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

8:07 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Armin Trost | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Too often I hear even HR people saying, "HR is too important to be left to HR." The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR? Im sick about it. All rights reserved.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" All rights reserved.