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Workplace Depression: This is How to Tell Your Employees Are Depressed

Strategy Driven

However, the Mental Health Foundation has provided guidelines for employees, coworkers, and friends to look out for: Physical signs of self-harm (such as seeing scarring on the wrists). Overwhelming redundancy in workplace operations may not be stimulating enough for some employees. Decreased appetite. Moving Forward.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. operations. On her flight back to New York, Helena ran through Unamano’s guidelines for regions in which it would expand. Helena told him she was sorry, but it was out of the question. It didn’t have U.S.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Why Sourcing Local Food Is So Hard for Restaurants

Harvard Business Review

Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. You’re going to have to put your trust in the suppliers to live up to the expectations laid down in the quality control guidelines. Operations in a Connected World.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. Trump Shocked the World.

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