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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015.

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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, they also hope to develop a content management system that other publishers can license and use to distribute their content. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects. So perhaps it was inevitable that, in 2014, Kickstarter quietly softened its guidelines.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. “I must have been projecting more sternness than I knew I was capable of,” she told us. How do women navigate this no-win situation? to find out. Parenthood Pressures.

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Qualified Black Women Are Being Held Back from Management

Harvard Business Review

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client. ” What, or who, will open the door? .

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. Initially these savings are mainly physical, as you stretch the use of tangible assets such as plants, networks and systems. Given the still-prevailing “conglomerate discount” Western firms are subject to (i.e.,

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.”